(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Power urges the security council to "take the kind of credible, binding action warranted."
(2) The subcellular distribution of sialyltransferase and its product of action, sialic acid, was investigated in the undifferentiated cells of the rat intestinal crypts and compared with the pattern observed in the differentiated cells present in the surface epithelium.
(3) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
(4) The following is a brief review of the history, mechanism of action, and potential adverse effects of neuromuscular blockers.
(5) However, the mechanism of the inhibitory action is still somewhat uncertain.
(6) "What has made that worse is the disingenuous way the force has defended their actions.
(7) As prolongation of the action potential by TEA facilitates preferentially the hormone release evoked by low (ineffective) frequencies, it is suggested that a frequency-dependent broadening of action potentials which reportedly occurs on neurosecretory neurones may play an important role in the frequency-dependent facilitation of hormone release from the rat neurohypophysis.
(8) This was unlike the action of the calcium channel blocker, cadmium, which reduced the calcium action potential and the a.h.p.
(9) An initial complex-soma inflection was observed on the rising phase of the action potential of some cells.
(10) Most thyroid hormone actions, however, appear in the perinatal period, and infants with thyroid agenesis appear normal at birth and develop normally with prompt neonatal diagnosis and treatment.
(11) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
(12) The evidence suggests that by the age of 15 years many adolescents show a reliable level of competence in metacognitive understanding of decision-making, creative problem-solving, correctness of choice, and commitment to a course of action.
(13) The blockade of H2 receptors is the primary action of these drugs; however, they possess also secondary actions which may represent untoward effects but in some cases may be actually useful (increase in prostaglandin synthesis, inhibition of LTB4 synthesis, etc.)
(14) It is concluded that in the mouse model the ability of buspirone to reduce the aversive response to a brightly illuminated area may reflect an anxiolytic action, that the dorsal raphe nucleus may be an important locus of action, and that the effects of buspirone may reflect an interaction at 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors.
(15) The macrophage-derived product, interleukin 1 (IL 1) is thought to play an important regulatory role in the proliferation of T lymphocytes; however, its mechanism of action is unknown.
(16) If there is a will to use primary Care centres for effective preventive action in the population as a whole, motivation of the professionals involved and organisational changes will be necessary so as not to perpetuate the law of inverse care.
(17) In oleate-labeled particles, besides phosphatidic acid the product of PLD action radioactivity was also detected in diglyceride as a result of resident phosphatidate phosphohydrolase, which hydrolyzed the phosphatidic acid.
(18) Selective removal of endothelium had no effect on BK-induced contraction or the action of the antagonists.
(19) When irradiated circular DNA, previously nicked by T4 endonuclease V, is briefly exposed to elevated temperature, the DAN becomes susceptible to the action of exonuclease V, and pyrimidine dimers are selectively released.
(20) The reproducibility of the killing-curve method suggests that at least two different concentrations should be used and that a decrease in viable counts below 2 log10 after 24 hours does not exclude a synergistic action.
Congenerous
Definition:
(a.) Allied in origin or cause; congeneric; as, congenerous diseases.
Example Sentences:
(1) n. differ from those in other congeneric species mainly in the absence of small spines on the surface of the transparent envelope enclosing the egg proper, measurements (size of eggs 0.069-0.075 x 0.027-0.030 mm) and their localization in the host.
(2) An extensive set of computed molecular properties, both steric and electronic, have been calculated using molecular orbital and empirical methods for benzoic acid (1) and a congeneric series of substituted benzoic acids, i.e.
(3) This can be effectively accomplished when congeneric species having different postural and locomotor behaviors are compared.
(4) This new genus seems to bee specific of the mormyridae among which a new example of simultaneous gill parasitism by congeneric species is reported.
(5) The blue and the black wildebeest, Connochaetes taurinus and C. gnou, are currently classified as congeneric, but previous reports have placed C. taurinus in its own genus, Gorgon.
(6) Retrograde transcorneal iridectomy suggested by Charleux and Etienne was used in 27 eyes (20 patients) suffering from glaucoma with closed angle (in 12 eyes with acute attack and in 15 congeneric eyes) (prophylactic).
(7) Ring A may interact with the receptor by forming a pi-molecular complex, as suggested by the correlation between hallucinogenic activity and energy of the highest occupied molecular orbital (E(H)) of congeneric series.
(8) Based on the congeneric distribution patterns, it is suggested that besides metabolism, structural specific binding to the Ah-receptor and cytochrome P-450 complex might also be responsible for this selective liver retention.
(9) Following the characterization of swinholide A (1), the major cytotoxic dimeric macrolide, three new congeneric dimeric macrolides, named swinholide B (2), swinholide C (3) and isoswinholide A (10), have been isolated from the Okinawan marine sponge Theonella swinhoei.
(10) Congeneric series of stevioside (1) and rebaudioside A (3) analogues have been prepared.
(11) The results show the ability of MO-calculations to predict the basicity in this series of congeneric molecules and furthermore support the reliability of the calculation procedure in providing the quantum chemical parameters reported in this paper.
(12) that the genera Arthroderma and Nannizzia are congeneric.
(13) Living species of the cockroach family Cryptocercidae have intestinal symbionts that are congeneric with some of the gut protozoa found in Isoptera.
(14) In the survey, selectivity index (ratio of cytotoxicity to the potency in inhibiting HIV replication in vitro) was used to rank compounds in congeneric groups.
(15) An equilibrium model is described for relationships between the biological activity and the physicochemical properties of compounds in a congeneric series.
(16) Analysis of the geographical distributions of the well-known cases of animal parthenogenesis in nature reveals (i) that most of these species exist in natural disclimax communities and (ii) that within these communities they exist in isolation from closely related congeneric species.
(17) all fish species belonging to the family or families that include a parasite's known hosts) on number of hosts of congeneric species were evaluated using multiple regressions.
(18) log Poctanol minus log Pheptane, was also determined for both congeneric series and was indicative of a similar H-bonding capacity for the SO2NH2 and 4-NH2-C6H4-SO2 groups.
(19) This amount of genetic divergence is characteristic of comparisons between congeneric rather than intergeneric trematode species and supports the conclusion, corroborated by morphology and life history, that H. intestinalis is more closely related to some members of Glypthelmins than to any other species.
(20) Genetic distances between all pairs of species fall within a narrow range (0.080 less than or equal to D less than or equal to 0.250; D = 0.164) which is near the lower limit of genetic distances typically observed between other congeneric organisms.