Definition:
- (n.) A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of power exerted on one body by another; agency; activity; operation; as, the action of heat; a man of action.
- (n.) An act; a thing done; a deed; an enterprise. (pl.): Habitual deeds; hence, conduct; behavior; demeanor.
- (n.) The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.
- (n.) Movement; as, the horse has a spirited action.
- (n.) Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun.
- (n.) Any one of the active processes going on in an organism; the performance of a function; as, the action of the heart, the muscles, or the gastric juice.
- (n.) Gesticulation; the external deportment of the speaker, or the suiting of his attitude, voice, gestures, and countenance, to the subject, or to the feelings.
- (n.) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.
- (n.) A suit or process, by which a demand is made of a right in a court of justice; in a broad sense, a judicial proceeding for the enforcement or protection of a right, the redress or prevention of a wrong, or the punishment of a public offense.
- (n.) A right of action; as, the law gives an action for every claim.
- (n.) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds; hence, in the plural, equivalent to stocks.
- (n.) An engagement between troops in war, whether on land or water; a battle; a fight; as, a general action, a partial action.
- (n.) The mechanical contrivance by means of which the impulse of the player's finger is transmitted to the strings of a pianoforte or to the valve of an organ pipe.
Compare action with other words:
action vs. morals
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action vs. thought
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action vs. emotion
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action vs. cation
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action vs. auction
action vs. faction
action vs. method
action vs. status
action vs. perception
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action vs. solution
action vs. task
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action vs. plot
action vs. etiquette
action vs. frog
accomplish vs. action
action vs. preaction
action vs. nonjurorism
action vs. overaction
action vs. assumpsit
action vs. retraxit
action vs. nonjoinder
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action vs. gest
action vs. hundreder
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action vs. backcast
action vs. implead
action vs. trover
action vs. claim
action vs. striving
action vs. cut
action vs. conditional
action vs. mannerism
action vs. wish
action vs. windlass
action vs. nature
action vs. effort
action vs. suit
action vs. enactment
action vs. glyph
action vs. book
action vs. click
action vs. demonstration
action vs. javanese
action vs. behavior
action vs. perform
action vs. cause
action vs. primer
action vs. fight
action vs. ree
action vs. function
action vs. symbol
action vs. operation
action vs. dede
action vs. reprehensible
action vs. equal
action vs. denoting
action vs. ora
action vs. principle
action vs. behaviour
action vs. diligence
action vs. coup
action vs. initial
action vs. gold
action vs. retroaction
action vs. actionless
action vs. recouper
action vs. oughtness
action vs. primed
action vs. enacture
action vs. innervate
action vs. disablement
action vs. rubicon
action vs. shamelessness
action vs. decider
action vs. sacramental
action vs. forfeiture
action vs. inconstancy
action vs. suzerainty
action vs. demandant
action vs. byplay
action vs. rashness
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action vs. afterward
action vs. synchronization
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action vs. fiddling
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action vs. dogwatch
action vs. right
action vs. adventure
action vs. doggy
action vs. write
action vs. demonstrate
action vs. unit
action vs. dog
action vs. unvarying
action vs. connotative
action vs. display
action vs. gobble
action vs. ingenuity
action vs. attitude
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action vs. voting
action vs. seeking
action vs. occurring
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action vs. travelling
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action vs. beating
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action vs. manufacturing
action vs. resounding
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action vs. reinforcement
action vs. limitation
action vs. receiver
action vs. lynching
action vs. script
action vs. transact
action vs. respond
action vs. trumpeting
action vs. contrite
action vs. preterite
action vs. disturb
action vs. vagary
action vs. voltaic
action vs. interrupt
action vs. mesmerism
action vs. bowling
action vs. tactic
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action vs. quiescence
action vs. orthopraxy
action vs. deferred
action vs. responsibility
action vs. intention
action vs. physiological
action vs. digging
action vs. rampage
action vs. play
action vs. karma
action vs. mimesis
action vs. strategy
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action vs. realistic
action vs. routine
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action vs. auspice
action vs. yank
action vs. instructive
action vs. inert
action vs. facilities
action vs. beginning
action vs. chinaman
action vs. harmonious
action vs. challenge
action vs. inertia
action vs. physicochemical
action vs. reciprocal
action vs. telegraph
action vs. event
action vs. reach
action vs. manner
action vs. inefficient
action vs. extension
action vs. exert
action vs. infraction
action vs. doing
action vs. constancy
action vs. obligation
action vs. privy
action vs. practice
action vs. trick
action vs. reward
action vs. impulse
action vs. feeble
action vs. aworking
action vs. awork
action vs. actless
action vs. performance
action vs. trouble
action vs. wait
action vs. battle
action vs. resist
action vs. passive
action vs. prescriptive
action vs. move
action vs. suicide
action vs. leaven
action vs. steer
action vs. magnificent
action vs. guide
action vs. intent
action vs. impel
action vs. alive
action vs. afterthought
action vs. reluctant
action vs. shackle
action vs. afoot
acting vs. action
action vs. replevin
action vs. practical
action vs. pleasure
action vs. might
action vs. pragmatic
action vs. punish
action vs. synergy
action vs. castling
action vs. brain
action vs. undo
action vs. filibuster
action vs. attention
action vs. attempt
action vs. actor
action vs. look
action vs. episode
action vs. habit
action vs. tense
action vs. case
action vs. effect
action vs. request
action vs. deed
action vs. agency
action vs. agent
action vs. stock
action vs. capital
action vs. share
action vs. automorphism
action vs. group
action vs. homomorphism
action vs. lawsuit
action vs. charge
action vs. guitar
action vs. string
action vs. device
action vs. key
action vs. piano
action vs. keyboard
action vs. assembly
action vs. part
action vs. mechanism
action vs. activity
action vs. motion
action vs. purpose
action vs. done
action vs. imperfect
action vs. drug
action vs. graded
action vs. decision
action vs. reaction
action vs. work
action vs. meaning
action vs. character
action vs. octothorpe
action vs. proportionality
action vs. spring
action vs. definition
action vs. denotation
action vs. deal
action vs. word
action vs. equality
action vs. equation
act vs. action