activity
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(noun) any specific activity or pursuit; "they avoided all recreational activity" |
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Related Words: act, acting, activating, activation, aid, animation, arrangement, assist, assistance, attempt, bag, behavior, behaviour, burst, business, buzz, ceremony, child's play, cinch, concealing, concealment, conduct, continuance, continuation, control, controlling, creation, cup of tea, deeds, delectation, demand, disassembly, dish, dismantlement, dismantling, dissipation, disturbance, diversion, domesticity, duck soup, education, educational activity, effort, emplacement, employment, endeavor, endeavour, energizing, enjoyment, exercise, fit, fun, game, grooming, grouping, guarding, hell, help, helping, hiding, human action, human activity, hunt, hunting, instruction, last, leadership, leading, line, line of work, liveliness, locating, location, market, marketplace, measure, measurement, measuring, mensuration, misconduct, occupation, operation, organisation, organization, outlet, pattern, pedagogy, performing, perturbation, picnic, piece of cake, placement, play, playacting, playing, pleasure, position, positioning, practice, precedence, precession, preparation, presentation, procedure, process, protecting, protection, providing, provision, puncture, puncturing, pushover, readying, recreation, release, representation, role, search, searching, secreting, sensory activity, service, sin, situating, snap, solo, space walk, supply, supplying, support, supporting, teaching, timekeeping, training, try, turn, usage, use, utilisation, utilization, variance, variation, walkover, waste, wastefulness, work, works, worship, writing, wrongdoing |
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Antonyms: inactivity |
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(noun) (chemistry) the capacity of a substance to take part in a chemical reaction; "catalytic activity" |
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Related Words: capability, capacity |
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(noun) the trait of being active; moving or acting rapidly and energetically; "the level of activity declines with age" |
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Synonyms: activeness |
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Related Words: animation, dynamism, oomph, pizzaz, pizzazz, spiritedness, trait, zing |
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(noun) radiation resulting from radioactive decay |
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Synonyms: radioactivity |
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Related Words: radiation |
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(noun) the state of being active; "his sphere of activity"; "he is out of action" |
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Synonyms: action, activeness |
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Related Words: agency, behavior, behaviour, busyness, eructation, eruption, operation, play, state, swing |
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Antonyms: inactivity |
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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: action, 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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(noun) an organic process that takes place in the body; "respiratory activity" |
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Synonyms: bodily function, bodily process, body process |
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Related Words: ablactation, anastalsis, biological process, breath, breathing, consumption, control, crying, discharge, emission, expectoration, expelling, festering, healing, hypostasis, ingestion, insemination, intake, lachrymation, lacrimation, lactation, organic process, overactivity, peristalsis, perspiring, placentation, reaction, respiration, response, sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sleeping, suppuration, sweating, tearing, tears, transpiration, uptake, vermiculation, watering, weeping |
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