Action

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

action vs. instance

action vs. thought

action vs. motivation

action vs. emotion

action vs. active

action vs. paction

action vs. taction

action vs. cation

action vs. acton

action vs. auction

action vs. faction

action vs. method

action vs. status

action vs. perception

action vs. demeanor

action vs. solution

action vs. task

action vs. success

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

action vs. congenerous

action vs. gest

action vs. hundreder

action vs. sackage

action vs. irritative

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

action vs. inaction

action vs. diegetic

action vs. afterward

action vs. synchronization

action vs. concretion

action vs. stimulation

action vs. punctual

action vs. counterinsurgency

action vs. fiddling

action vs. clustering

action vs. searing

action vs. twinning

action vs. deactivate

action vs. material

action vs. intension

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

action vs. stunt

action vs. rapping

action vs. crushing

action vs. transmitting

action vs. weighing

action vs. thriving

action vs. thrashing

action vs. voting

action vs. seeking

action vs. occurring

action vs. posting

action vs. entering

action vs. travelling

action vs. controlled

action vs. cardiac

action vs. corresponding

action vs. planning

action vs. beating

action vs. fielding

action vs. studying

action vs. biting

action vs. committed

action vs. mocking

action vs. peeping

action vs. manufacturing

action vs. resounding

action vs. perseverance

action vs. garnering

action vs. brandishing

action vs. reciprocity

action vs. gird

action vs. swirling

action vs. seething

action vs. docket

action vs. crying

action vs. actuate

action vs. pragmatism

action vs. rouse

action vs. refrain

action vs. exigent

action vs. predy

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

action vs. warpath

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

action vs. scheme

action vs. realistic

action vs. routine

action vs. versus

action vs. conduct

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