Meaning of action | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The effort of performing or doing something.
   countable, uncountable
2. action, act, deed (something done)
3. Something done, often so as to accomplish a purpose.
   countable, uncountable
4. working. Is your machine still in action? werkend يَعْمَل، صَالِح لِلإسْتِعْمَال в действие em funcionamento v chodu in Betreib i funktion σε λειτουργία en funcionamiento toimimas, töös در حال کار toiminnassa en état de marche בִּפְעוּלָה क्रियाशील u pogonu működik jalan gangfær in moto 動いている 작동하여 veikiantis būt darbībā berfungsi in werking i funksjonsprawny دكار په وخت كي em funcionamento în stare de funcţionare в действии; на ходу v chode v obratovanju u radu i funktion ทำงาน çalışır durumd...
5. action (way of motion or functioning)
6. A way of motion or functioning.
   countable, uncountable
7. not working. My car's out of action this week. buite aksie, gebreek مُعَطَّل، غَيْر صَالِح للإسْتِعْمَال извън строй avariado mimo provoz, nefungující außer Betrieb ude af funktion χαλασμένος fuera de servicio, averiado rivist väljas از کار افتاده؛ خراب olla epäkunnossa hors d'usage מקלקל, מקולקל, מושבת बेकार u kvaru nem működik tidak bisa dipakai ógangfær; úr leik fuori uso 動いていない 작동할 수 없는 neveikiantis nedarboties rosak buiten werking i ustandniesprawny دكار نه لويدلي avariado stricat, scos ...
8. action (fast-paced activity)
9. Fast-paced activity.
   countable, uncountable
10. acción, actuación.
11. combat, action
12. The state or process of acting or doing: The medical team went into action.
13. The way in which a mechanical device acts when used; especially a firearm.
    countable, uncountable
14. general legal action; lawsuit
15. Something that is done or accomplished; a deed. See Usage Note at act.
16. The way in which cartridges are loaded, locked, and extracted from the mechanism.
    countable, uncountable
17. Organized activity to accomplish an objective: a problem requiring drastic action.
18. The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano, which transfers the motion of the key to the sound-making device.
    countable, uncountable
19. The causation of change by the exertion of power or a natural process: the action of waves on a beach; the action of a drug on blood pressure.
20. The distance separating the strings and the fingerboard on a string instrument.
    countable, uncountable
21. Habitual or vigorous activity; energy: a woman of action.
22. Sexual intercourse.
    countable, slang, uncountable
23. often actions Behavior or conduct.
24. Combat.
    countable, uncountable
25. Law A proceeding brought before a court to obtain relief; a lawsuit.
    Law
26. A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
    countable, uncountable
27. A way in which each element of some algebraic structure transforms some other structure or set, in a way which respects the structure of the first. Formally, this may be seen as a morphism from the first structure into some structure of endomorphisms of the second; for example, a group action of a group G on a set S can be seen as a group homomorphism from G into the set of bijections on S (which form a group under function composition), while a module M over a ring R can be defined as an abelian group together with a ring homomorphism from R into the ring of group endomorphisms of M (which is also called the action of R on M).
    countable, uncountable
28. The product of energy and time, especially the product of the Lagrangian and time.
    countable, uncountable
29. 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.
    countable, uncountable
30. The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.
    countable, uncountable
31. spin put on the bowling ball.
    countable, uncountable
32. A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds.
    countable, obsolete, uncountable
33. A religious performance or solemn function, i.e. action sermon, a sacramental sermon in the Scots Presbyterian Church.
    countable, uncountable
34. A process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings).
    countable, uncountable
35. Purposeful behavior.
    Austrian, countable, uncountable
36. A demonstration by activists.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Knead bread with a rocking action.”

“a movie full of exciting action”

“Pressing a piano key causes the action of the hammer on the string.”

“pump-action shotgun”

“The run in bar 12 is almost impossible with this piano's heavy action.”

“You're getting fret buzz because the action is too low.”

“She gave him some action.”

“I hope to get a bit of action with the hot guy from the club.”

“He saw some action in the Korean War.”

“So saying he presented him with two actions of above two thousand livres each.”

“the Euripus of funds and actions”

“The Action Sermon is quite simply, then, the eucharistic sermon.”

“The protest was set up in less than three weeks by an ad hoc group called Act Up […] According to Kramer, Act Up will continue AIDS-related organizing, possibly including an action at an early June Washington, D.C., AIDS conference for scientists worldwide.”

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