Word Finder - actions

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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.

Her actions had clearly taken him by surprise.

Actions spoke louder than words.

He should view their actions as clearing the way for him.

Cade should accept the responsibility of his actions as well.

There was nothing maternal about her feelings for Alex – nor anything paternal about his actions toward her when they were alone.

Cromwell, who was as a rule especially scrupulous in protecting non-combatants from violence, justified his severity in this case by the cruelties perpetrated by the Irish in the rebellion of 1641, and as being necessary on military and political grounds in that it "would tend to prevent the effusion of blood for the future, which were the satisfactory grounds of such actions which otherwise cannot but work remorse and regret."

I do not need to explain my actions to you.

Her actions toward Julie, her mother and to Betsy with whom she shares a special relationship are markedly different.

Had his actions truly set her on this path to end up as the plaything of a creature with no capacity for mercy?

Had she awoken, there was no doubt she'd be petrified by his actions in the nearly dark room.

I'll tell Harrigan to stop the investigation but Arthur's actions are pretty strange.

The full import of his actions hit her, bringing a flood of warmth to her face.

His actions were far too bold, and yet the feel of his warm muscular torso was comforting.

I trust you because of your actions.

When reason rises to the conception of universal order, when actions are submitted, by the exercise of a sympathy working necessarily and intuitively to the idea of the universal order, the good has been reached, the true good, good in itself, absolute good.

It was bad enough that his actions warranted her decision to leave, but now she actually feared him.

His parent's actions seem very vengeful and an overreaction for what he did.

There was a moment of realization as he understood her brave actions, and then a snap as the line let loose and he tumbled backwards like some mortally wounded game bird shot from the sky, arms outstretched, scream muffled in his mask.

You turned me away with your suspicious actions, long before Alex came along.

She'd thought him beyond the duplicity that made up the actions of the elite class.

From this position it easily followed that actions, being merely external, were morally indifferent, and that the true Gnostic should abandon himself to every lust with perfect indifference.

During our walks she keeps up a continual spelling, and delights to accompany it with actions such as skipping, hopping, jumping, running, walking fast, walking slow, and the like.

Those speeches were intended for quite other conditions, they were for the most part to be spoken at a moment of victory and triumph, generally when he was dying of wounds and the sovereign had thanked him for heroic deeds, and while dying he expressed the love his actions had proved.

She left him there to think about his actions - only he would probably stew on hers instead.

When the kitchen door opened suddenly, they jerked apart and turned guilty faces to Sarah, whose expression made it clear she had seen and comprehended their actions.

Lately his actions were more fatherly than anything else.

We forbade ourselves to even discuss our impetuous actions for fear of disturbing Howie so all we could do is cross our fingers and pray.

Meanwhile, we locked on the television, all evening, awaiting the results of our actions.

All our earlier actions were a series of what ifs.

Their actions showed moral ambiguity.

Martha looked awful but apologized for her actions.

Both of us tried to remember details of Quinn's actions when he set up a session.

His suspicions concerning Lydia's actions and his continued silence in not reporting them came too close to involving him as an accessory in whatever she might have done.

And his actions over the bones bordered on obsessiveness.

He liked watching her despite her odd actions.

Evelyn had little regret for her actions in life, even those she probably should have.

Cats wrestled and played around them while D'Ryn's strict oversight of his and Gage's actions could not be shaken.

But I hope I'd have the gumption not to rationalize my actions by pretending I believed what I did was right.

Perhaps, he thought, we are all owed contemplation of our actions, as a parting gift to those who succeed us so they might somehow learn from our deeds and mistakes.

In Dean's mind, her attitude and actions eliminated any thought that she might have read or learned of Annie's final hours earlier.

He had never experienced this intimacy with a lady of breeding, and knew that if her family ever learned of their actions, they would demand restitution for his behavior.

Her actions suddenly struck him in a different light.

He was able to see, hear, smell and predict the actions of those around him.

The winter (332-331) which Alexander spent in Egypt saw two memorable actions on his part.

That to fit the actions and distances covered by Alexander into such a scheme, assuming that he went by Seistan and Kandahar, would involve physical impossibilities has been pointed out by Count Yorck v.

Actions may be transferred to it, and appeals made to it, from the county courts in all cases arising within the jurisdiction of the Cinque Ports as defined by that act.

This shows that the principle of the dissipation of energy has control over the actions of those agents only whose faculties are too gross to enable them to grapple individually with the minute portions of matter which are the seat of energy.

The statement is not there because you want the log per se but because the logging of the actions is what documents how much you need to pay.

In the absence of efficient communication, potential belligerents are left to impute the worst possible motives to the unexplained actions of others.

I mention these reprehensible actions to illustrate how language can divide us.