Action (Noun)
Meaning 1
The operating part that transmits power to a mechanism; "the piano had a very stiff action".
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Nouns denoting man-made objects.
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Meaning 2
Something done (usually as opposed to something said); "there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions".
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Examples
- Her kind actions toward her patients had a profoundly positive effect on their mental well-being.
- His repeated delays sparked controversy over whether the issue had sparked appropriate actions to safeguard students' future.
- Effective social movement always combine attention-getting, convincing discourses and efficacious non-discursive actions that operate.
- Parents that simply mouth right beliefs take weaker parenting action but others must raise future pioneers prepared in face battles already this millisecond waged ceaseless everyday .URLException at /
- State-backed investigations for unusual large foreign wealth failed; too afraid an easy going well under low circumstances turned easily susceptible - both our rights always supported illegal black economy suspicious excessive.
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- Engagement
- Forbiddance
- Taking
- Consultation
- Benignity
- Course Of Action
- Hostility
- Jump-start
- Opposition
- Swordplay
- Pick
- Destabilisation
- Carrying Out
- Selection
- Achievement
- Carrying Into Action
- Saving
- Execution
- Option
- Accenting
- Civility
- Inhibition
- Accentuation
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Meaning 3
The most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field; "the action is no longer in technology stocks but in municipal bonds"; "gawkers always try to get as close to the action as possible".
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
Meaning 4
A judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong.
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.
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Meaning 5
A military engagement; "he saw action in Korea".
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Nouns denoting acts or actions.
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Meaning 6
The series of events that form a plot; "his novels always have a lot of action".
Classification
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents.
Meaning 7
The trait of being active and energetic and forceful; "a man of action".
Classification
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.
Meaning 8
A process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings); "the action of natural forces"; "volcanic activity".
Classification
Nouns denoting natural processes.
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- Sericulture
- Demagnetisation
- Distillation
- Fossilisation
- Oxygenation
- Absorption
- Fossilization
- Concretion
- Survival Of The Fittest
- Chromatography
- Leach
- Synergy
- Synergism
- Ecesis
- Soakage
- Electrophoresis
- Precession Of The Equinoxes
- Physical Change
- Inactivation
- Ion Exchange
- Source
- Selection
- Establishment
- Flocculation
- Magnetisation
- Rigidifying
- Oscillation
- Scattering
- Filtration
- Feedback
- Succession
- Sink
- Formation
- Ionisation
- Soak
- Phase Transition
- Set
- Ionization
- Extraction
- Flow
- Softening
- Chemical Process
- Dissolution
- Distillment
- Demagnetization
- Clotting
- Ionophoresis
- Diffusion
- Aeration
- Adiabatic Process
- Centrifugation
- Stimulation
- Solidifying
- Release
- Drift
- Geologic Process
- Acidification
- Transpiration
- Leaching
- Pair Production
- Curing
- Nuclear Reaction
- Convection
- Disintegration
- Curdling
- Capture
- Magnetization
- Temperature Change
- Radiation
- Antiredeposition
- Decay
- Condensation
- Transduction
- Cataphoresis
- Opacification
- Sorption
- Pair Creation
- Vitrification
- Materialization
- Effervescence
- Extinction
- Desorption
- Survival
- Geological Process
- Saltation
- Chemical Change
- Hardening
- Phase Change
- Stiffening
- Ecological Succession
- Materialisation
Meaning 9
The state of being active; "his sphere of activity"; "he is out of action".
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Nouns denoting natural processes.
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Meaning 10
An act by a government body or supranational organization; "recent federal action undermined the segregationist position"; "the United Nations must have the power to propose and organize action without being hobbled by irrelevant issues"; "the Union action of emancipating Southern slaves".
Classification
Nouns denoting acts or actions.