(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.
Deed
Definition:
(a.) Dead.
(v. t.) That which is done or effected by a responsible agent; an act; an action; a thing done; -- a word of extensive application, including, whatever is done, good or bad, great or small.
(v. t.) Illustrious act; achievement; exploit.
(v. t.) Power of action; agency; efficiency.
(v. t.) Fact; reality; -- whence we have indeed.
(v. t.) A sealed instrument in writing, on paper or parchment, duly executed and delivered, containing some transfer, bargain, or contract.
(v. t.) Performance; -- followed by of.
(v. t.) To convey or transfer by deed; as, he deeded all his estate to his eldest son.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although it never really has a sense of fun and burns with ill-focused anger, The Paperboy represents a kind of triumph, surely, even if it's just in getting such high-profile actors to do such low-down deeds.
(2) Philip and Roger Taylor-Brown, who have been together for three years and have already changed their names by deed poll, registered in Manchester yesterday for a ceremony on December 21.
(3) Every day laws are changed, or new laws are voted in, to legitimise illegal deeds.
(4) The paper, which traditionally supports the Tory party and was edited by the former Conservative cabinet minister Bill Deedes during seven years of Thatcher's reign, feared an avalanche of "bile" would "spew" from its pages and decided to keep comments closed, according to insiders.
(5) 'We need deeds, not words': bombs fall on Aleppo as MPs debate Syria Read more He also chided the UK foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, for calling for demonstrations outside the Russian embassy in London , saying it was necessary to be mindful of the welfare of diplomatic staff in Britain’s Moscow embassy.
(6) Rhodes was probably one of the worst colonisers both in word and deed.
(7) Anti-radicalisation is the whole community’s responsibility to deal with, not just the Muslim community.” Other critics point to provisions in the funding deed for the directory that allow the department to disclose confidential information about participants “to the responsible minister or prime minister”, or to a parliamentary committee.
(8) The Labour party is becoming a movement of words not deeds.
(9) I act with deeds and words, because the government seems determined to resurrect the old Victorian approach to disabled people.
(10) "The true test is not Rouhani's words, but rather the deeds of the Iranian regime, which continues to aggressively advance its nuclear programme while Rouhani is giving interviews," said the response, issued on Thursday after an interview the Iranian president granted to the American network NBC.
(11) Marcos would hold the deed and leave the space blank.
(12) Theoretically, a morality of aspiration involves assigning more credit for a good deed than blame for a corresponding bad deed; a morality of duty involves assigning more blame than credit.
(13) That’s not only because they hold so many title deeds, but also because modern governments are given to wringing their hands and declaring their own impotence in the face of multinationals.
(14) The FBI are sceptical that Pyongyang was responsible, and the government there denies that it had any involvement, even if it describes the hack as “a righteous deed”.
(15) Scalise even got castigated for such idiocy by no less than Erick Erickson , whose words and deeds usually sound like he’s auditioning for a role in a WWII movie as the piggy Bavarian Gauleiter pinching at dirndls in between faking a WWI injury to keep from getting sent to the front.
(16) As the number of dirty affairs, corruption, unlawful arms trades and extrajudicial killings go up, the journalists who write or that have the potential to write about these deeds become targets.
(17) Cake is for leaving parties, not the actual deed itself.
(18) Trolls are not often in a rush to discuss their behaviour with a stranger who might spill their darkest deeds to the world.
(19) Nevertheless, attention will now inevitably shift the focus towards next week's ECB rate meeting to see if Mr Draghi’s deeds match his rhetoric, or whether he is simply trying to buy more time for when the ESM becomes available.
(20) That means "no longer romanticising terrorists as Robin Hoods and no longer idealising their deeds as rough poetic justice".