Word Finder - action

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Something done so as to accomplish a purpose.

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A way of motion or functioning.

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Knead bread with a rocking action.

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Fast-paced activity.

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a movie full of exciting action

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A mechanism; a moving part or assembly.

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a rifle action

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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.

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The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on a guitar.

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Sexual intercourse.

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She gave him some action.

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Combat.

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He saw some action in the Korean War.

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A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).

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A mapping from a pairing of mathematical objects to one of them, respecting their individual structures. The pairing is typically a Cartesian product or a tensor product. The object that is not part of the output is said to act on the other object. In any given context, action is used as an abbreviation for a more fully named notion, like group action or left group action.

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The product of energy and time, especially the product of the Lagrangian and time.

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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.

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(painting and sculpture) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.

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Spin put on the bowling ball.

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A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds.

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To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.

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To initiate a legal action against someone.

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Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually an act or scene of a theatric performance.

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The director yelled ‘Action!’ before the camera started rolling.

This book is a call to action, not complacency.

She turned away, embarrassed by the rush of excitement the action had triggered.

He slapped the team into action and they headed for town at a more leisurely pace.

The friendly action was the beginning of a strong relationship between my two favorite women.

Maybe now Youngblood would stay out of the news and Howie would back off insisting we take action to stop him.

I define wisdom as deriving a course of action from applying a value system to a situation.

Two childish voices laughed merrily at this action, and Dorothy was sure they were in no danger among such light-hearted folks, even if those folks couldn't be seen.

Coming out onto a field under the enemy's fire, this brave general went straight ahead, leading his men under fire, without considering in his agitation whether going into action now, with a single division, would be of any use or no.

She froze, surprised by his action as well as the warm shock running through her.

A world where political action was represented in such guise was ripe for overthrow, or could only be saved by a great mental reformation."

Now it was time for action.

He asked me to indicate as far as I could the gestures and action that should go with the lines.

The wing housed an indoor basketball court, indoor pool, a small game room, and a huge theatre room where music blared from some action movie.

There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

Action from principle--the perception and the performance of right--changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not consist wholly with anything which was.

She couldn't yet determine if the action were pure chauvinism or old-fashioned civility.

Only unconscious action bears fruit, and he who plays a part in an historic event never understands its significance.

Think of a recluse who finds herself in possession of a marvelous gift, through no action on her part.

Of course, I have no sense whatever of dramatic action, and could make only random guesses; but with masterful art he suited the action to the word.

My frustration forced action of some sort so I picked up the phone and dialed Howie and Julie's room at the Four Seasons in Santa Barbara.

A war which became general, as any limited action might, would only result in the virtual destruction of mankind.

In this way the action began for the first, second, and third columns, which had gone down into the valley.

On the field between Borodino and the fleches, beside the wood, the chief action of the day took place on an open space visible from both sides and was fought in the simplest and most artless way.

I imitated this action, even wearing his spectacles, thinking they might help solve the mystery.

Dokhturov was unwilling to undertake any action, as it was not clear to him now what he ought to do.

Is there any collective action which cannot find its justification in political unity, in patriotism, in the balance of power, or in civilization?

In actual life each historic event, each human action, is very clearly and definitely understood without any sense of contradiction, although each event presents itself as partly free and partly compulsory.

The proportion of freedom to inevitability decreases and increases according to the point of view from which the action is regarded, but their relation is always one of inverse proportion.

I knew this conversation deserved more thought on my part but it felt good taking some action, even if it might prove misguided.

She stamped out her cigarette in the snow before pulling a large suitcase from the small rear seat, nearly yanking off the handle and serenading the action with a chorus of curses.

Before she could fully comprehend the action, he casually straightened and stretched.

His account of the notion of external existence, as derived, not from pure sensation, but from the experience of action on the one hand and resistance on the other, may be compared with the account of Bain and later psychologists.

It was a step characteristic of his love for extreme and dramatic action, but it added to the dissensions between him and those who wished only for autonomy under the old dynasty, and his enemies did not scruple to accuse him of aiming at the crown himself.

All he knew was that at the commencement of the action balls and shells began flying all over his regiment and hitting men and that afterwards someone had shouted "Cavalry!" and our men had begun firing.

On the thirteenth of July the Pavlograds took part in a serious action for the first time.

An aide-de-camp, who had entered the bedroom to report to the Emperor the number of prisoners taken in yesterday's action, was standing by the door after delivering his message, awaiting permission to withdraw.

The chief action of the battle of Borodino was fought within the seven thousand feet between Borodino and Bagration's fleches.

Kutuzov's action decides the fate of the capital and of your empire!

He sat in the caleche, dozing and waking up by turns, and listening for any sound of firing on the right as an indication that the action had begun.

The noncommissioned officers (of whom there are fewer) perform the action itself less frequently than the soldiers, but they already give commands.

The commander-in-chief never takes direct part in the action itself, but only gives general orders concerning the movement of the mass of the troops.

If in a thousand years even one man in a million could act freely, that is, as he chose, it is evident that one single free act of that man's in violation of the laws governing human action would destroy the possibility of the existence of any laws for the whole of humanity.

The degree of our conception of freedom or inevitability depends in this respect on the greater or lesser lapse of time between the performance of the action and our judgment of it.

My action seems to me free; but asking myself whether I could raise my arm in every direction, I see that I raised it in the direction in which there was least obstruction to that action either from things around me or from the construction of my own body.

For if I examine an action committed a second ago I must still recognize it as not being free, for it is irrevocably linked to the moment at which it was committed.

If any single action is due to free will, then not a single historical law can exist, nor any conception of historical events.

It was still early, but he would hang back for a bit and check things out thoroughly before going into action.

The concerned look on Randy Byrne's face told Dean that Cynthia's action, while not of itself so unusual, was totally out of character for the boy's mother.

Jenn launched into action.

These tongues are magnetized by the inducing action of a strong horse-shoe permanent magnet, S N, which is made in a curved shape for the sake of compactness.