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action > 12 senses
NOUN1actionSomething done (usually as opposed to something said)
2action, activity, activenessThe state of being active
3action, legal action, action at lawA judicial proceeding brought by one party against another
4actionAn act by a government body or supranational organization
5action, military actionA military engagement
6action, natural process, natural action, activityA process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)
7actionThe series of events that form a plot
8action, action mechanismThe operating part that transmits power to a mechanism
9actionThe trait of being active and energetic and forceful
10actionThe most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field
VERB1action, sue, litigate, processInstitute legal proceedings against
2action, carry through, accomplish, execute, carry out, fulfill, fulfilPut in effect
action > pronunciation
Soundsae'kshahn
RhymesAachen, Aaron, abandon, and 2504 more rhymes in ahn at the HyperDic website...
action > noun 1, act
MeaningSomething done (usually as opposed to something said).
Examples"there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions"
Narrowerthing; kindness, benignity; accomplishment, achievement; alienation; res gestae; course, course of action; interaction; playing; play, swordplay; arrival; performance, execution, carrying out, carrying into action; choice, selection, option, pick; change; economy, saving; prohibition, inhibition, forbiddance; resistance, opposition; bruxism; transfusion; pickings, taking; transgression; aggression, hostility; destabilization, destabilisation; employment, engagement; reference, consultation; emphasizing, accenting, accentuation; beatification; stupefaction
Broaderact, human action, human activity
Verbsact
action > noun 2, state
MeaningThe state of being active.
Examples"he is out of action"
Synonymsactivity, activeness
Attributesactive; active
Narroweragency; busyness, hum; behavior, behaviour; eruption, eructation, extravasation; operation; overdrive; play; swing
Broaderstate
Contraryinaction, inactivity, inactiveness
Verbsact; act
action > noun 3, act
MeaningA judicial proceeding brought by one party against another. One party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong.
Synonymslegal action, action at law
Categorylaw, jurisprudence
Narrowerantitrust case; civil action; counterclaim; custody case; lis pendens; prosecution, criminal prosecution; test case, test suit
Broaderproceeding, legal proceeding, proceedings
Verbsaction
action > noun 4, act
MeaningAn act by a government body or supranational organization.
Examples"recent federal action undermined the segregationist position"; "the United Nations must have the power to propose and organize action without being hobbled by irrelevant issues"; "the Union action of emancipating Southern slaves"
Broadergroup action
action > noun 5, act
MeaningA military engagement.
Examples"he saw action in Korea"
Synonymsmilitary action
Categorymilitary, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine
Narroweramphibious landing; battle, conflict, fight, engagement; blockade, encirclement; defense, defence, defensive measure; electronic warfare, EW; police action; resistance; saber rattling, sabre rattling; sortie, sally; war, warfare
Broadergroup action
action > noun 6, process
MeaningA process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings).
Examples"the action of natural forces"
Synonymsnatural process, natural action, activity
Narrowerradiation; absorption; acidification; adiabatic process; aeration; antiredeposition; capture; capture; centrifugation; chemical process, chemical change, chemical action; chromatography; concretion; condensation; convection; curdling, clotting, coagulation; decay; demagnetization, demagnetisation; desorption; diffusion; dissolution, disintegration; distillation, distillment; drift; effervescence; electrophoresis, cataphoresis, dielectrolysis, ionophoresis; establishment, ecesis; extinction; extraction; feedback; filtration; flocculation; flow; formation; fossilization, fossilisation; geological process, geologic process; hardening, solidifying, solidification, set, curing; ignition; inactivation; induction; ion exchange; ionization, ionisation; leach, leaching; magnetization, magnetisation, magnetic induction; materialization, materialisation; nuclear reaction; opacification; oscillation; oxygenation; pair production, pair creation, pair formation; phase change, phase transition, state change, physical change; precession of the equinoxes; release; saltation; scattering; sericulture; sink; soak, soakage, soaking; softening; sorption; source; stiffening, rigidifying, rigidification; stimulation; succession, ecological succession; survival, survival of the fittest, natural selection, selection; synergy, synergism; temperature change; transduction; transpiration; vitrification
Broaderprocess
action > noun 7, communication
MeaningThe series of events that form a plot.
Examples"his novels always have a lot of action"
Broaderplot
action > noun 8, artifact
MeaningThe operating part that transmits power to a mechanism.
Examples"the piano had a very stiff action"
Synonymsaction mechanism
Part ofgun; keyboard
Partskey
Narrowergunlock, firing mechanism; movement; piano action; pump action, slide action
Broadermechanism
action > noun 9, attribute
MeaningThe trait of being active and energetic and forceful.
Examples"a man of action"
Broaderdrive
action > noun 10, act
MeaningThe most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field.
Examples"the action is no longer in technology stocks but in municipal bonds"; "gawkers always try to get as close to the action as possible"
Broaderwork
action > verb 1, social
MeaningInstitute legal proceedings against. File a suit against.
PatternSomebody ----s somebody
Examples"She actioned the company for discrimination"
Synonymssue, litigate, process
Narrowerexpedite
Broaderchallenge
Similar tolitigate
Nounsaction
action > verb 2, creation
MeaningPut in effect.
PatternSomebody ----s something
Examples"He actioned the operation"
Synonymscarry through, accomplish, execute, carry out, fulfill, fulfil
Narrowerget over; run; consummate; consummate; do, perform; dispatch, discharge, complete
Broadercomplete, finish; effect, effectuate, bring about, set up
Similar tofollow through, follow up, follow out, carry out, implement, put through, go through

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