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NOUN | 1 | action | Something done (usually as opposed to something said) |
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2 | action, activity, activeness | The state of being active | |
3 | action, legal action, action at law | A judicial proceeding brought by one party against another | |
4 | action | An act by a government body or supranational organization | |
5 | action, military action | A military engagement | |
6 | action, natural process, natural action, activity | A process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings) | |
7 | action | The series of events that form a plot | |
8 | action, action mechanism | The operating part that transmits power to a mechanism | |
9 | action | The trait of being active and energetic and forceful | |
10 | action | The most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field | |
VERB | 1 | action, sue, litigate, process | Institute legal proceedings against |
2 | action, carry through, accomplish, execute, carry out, fulfill, fulfil | Put in effect |
Sounds | ae'kshahn |
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Rhymes | Aachen, Aaron, abandon, and 2504 more rhymes in ahn at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | Something done (usually as opposed to something said). |
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Examples | "there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions" |
Narrower | thing; 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 |
Broader | act, human action, human activity |
Verbs | act |
Meaning | The state of being active. |
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Examples | "he is out of action" |
Synonyms | activity, activeness |
Attributes | active; active |
Narrower | agency; busyness, hum; behavior, behaviour; eruption, eructation, extravasation; operation; overdrive; play; swing |
Broader | state |
Contrary | inaction, inactivity, inactiveness |
Verbs | act; act |
Meaning | A 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. |
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Synonyms | legal action, action at law |
Category | law, jurisprudence |
Narrower | antitrust case; civil action; counterclaim; custody case; lis pendens; prosecution, criminal prosecution; test case, test suit |
Broader | proceeding, legal proceeding, proceedings |
Verbs | action |
Meaning | An act by a government body or supranational organization. |
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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" |
Broader | group action |
Meaning | A military engagement. |
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Examples | "he saw action in Korea" |
Synonyms | military action |
Category | military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine |
Narrower | amphibious 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 |
Broader | group action |
Meaning | A process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings). |
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Examples | "the action of natural forces" |
Synonyms | natural process, natural action, activity |
Narrower | radiation; 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 |
Broader | process |
Meaning | The series of events that form a plot. |
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Examples | "his novels always have a lot of action" |
Broader | plot |
Meaning | The operating part that transmits power to a mechanism. |
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Examples | "the piano had a very stiff action" |
Synonyms | action mechanism |
Part of | gun; keyboard |
Parts | key |
Narrower | gunlock, firing mechanism; movement; piano action; pump action, slide action |
Broader | mechanism |
Meaning | The trait of being active and energetic and forceful. |
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Examples | "a man of action" |
Broader | drive |
Meaning | The most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field. |
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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" |
Broader | work |
Meaning | Institute legal proceedings against. File a suit against. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody |
Examples | "She actioned the company for discrimination" |
Synonyms | sue, litigate, process |
Narrower | expedite |
Broader | challenge |
Similar to | litigate |
Nouns | action |
Meaning | Put in effect. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "He actioned the operation" |
Synonyms | carry through, accomplish, execute, carry out, fulfill, fulfil |
Narrower | get over; run; consummate; consummate; do, perform; dispatch, discharge, complete |
Broader | complete, finish; effect, effectuate, bring about, set up |
Similar to | follow through, follow up, follow out, carry out, implement, put through, go through |