action
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(noun) something done (usually as opposed to something said); "there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions" |
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Related Words: accenting, accomplishment, achievement, act, aggression, arrival, carrying into action, carrying out, change, choice, consultation, course, doing, economy, emphasizing, employment, engagement, execution, hire, hiring, hostility, human action, human activity, interaction, kindness, opposition, performance, pick, picking, play, playing, reference, resistance, saving, selection, taking, thing |
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(noun) 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" |
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Related Words: group action |
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(noun) the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism; "the piano had a very stiff action" |
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Related Words: firing mechanism, gunlock, mechanism, movement, piano action, pump action, slide action |
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(noun) the trait of being active and energetic and forceful; "a man of action" |
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Related Words: drive |
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(noun) the series of events that form a plot; "his novels always have a lot of action" |
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Related Words: plot |
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(noun) the state of being active; "his sphere of activity"; "he is out of action" |
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Synonyms: activeness, activity |
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Related Words: agency, behavior, behaviour, busyness, eructation, eruption, operation, play, state, swing |
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Antonyms: inaction |
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(noun) a military engagement; "he saw action in Korea" |
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Synonyms: military action |
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Related Words: EW, battle, blockade, conflict, defence, defense, defensive measure, electronic warfare, encirclement, engagement, fight, group action, operation, police action, resistance, saber rattling, sabre rattling, sally, sortie, war, warfare |
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(noun) 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 |
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Synonyms: action at law, legal action |
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Related Words: antitrust case, counterclaim, custody case, judicial proceeding, legal proceeding, lis pendens, proceeding, proceedings, test case, test suit |
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(noun) a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings); "the action of natural forces"; "volcanic activity" |
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Synonyms: activity, natural action, natural process |
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Related Words: absorption, acidification, aeration, antiredeposition, biological process, capture, cataphoresis, centrifugation, chemical action, chemical change, chemical process, chromatography, clotting, coagulation, concretion, condensation, convection, curdling, decay, demagnetization, desorption, diffusion, disintegration, dissolution, distillation, distillment, drift, ecesis, ecological succession, effervescence, electrophoresis, establishment, extinction, extraction, feedback, filtration, flocculation, flow, fossilization, fractional process, fractionation, geological process, hardening, ignition, induction, ion exchange, ionization, lavation, leach, leaching, magnetic induction, magnetisation, magnetization, natural selection, nuclear reaction, organic process, oscillation, oxygenation, pair creation, pair formation, pair production, phase change, phase transition, precession of the equinoxes, process, release, scattering, selection, sericulture, set, soak, soakage, soaking, softening, solidification, solidifying, sorption, state change, stimulation, succession, survival, survival of the fittest, synergism, synergy, temperature change, transduction, transpiration, vitrification, washing |
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