Word Finder - activities

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The state or quality of being active; activeness.

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Pit row was abuzz with activity.

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Something done as an action or a movement.

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The activity for the morning was a walk to the store.

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Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion.

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An increasing number of sports activities are on offer at the university.

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(grammar) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change over time and have no natural end point.

As our activities grew, the task became more daunting.

The weather made outdoor activities unrealistic.

In 1919 and 1920 Community Chests were organized, and sums aggregating $4,000,000 and $4,500,000 were subscribed in " drives," to meet the needs of all community activities, not only charities, but also Red Cross, Y.M.C.A.

The two women resumed their activities, unaffected by his outburst.

These activities were part of the culture of everyday life.

Just as in a clock, the result of the complicated motion of innumerable wheels and pulleys is merely a slow and regular movement of the hands which show the time, so the result of all the complicated human activities of 160,000 Russians and French--all their passions, desires, remorse, humiliations, sufferings, outbursts of pride, fear, and enthusiasm--was only the loss of the battle of Austerlitz, the so-called battle of the three Emperors--that is to say, a slow movement of the hand on the dial of human history.

It took us some time to ties his activities together.

Sailing, biking and fishing are only a few of the outdoor activities here.

Our activities certainly looked demanding and our positions important.

Amid the turmoil of his activities and distractions, however, Pierre at the end of a year began to feel that the more firmly he tried to rest upon it, the more masonic ground on which he stood gave way under him.

It had taken more than an hour to get to school on the bus, making any after-school activities rare.

This isn't a good time to draw attention to your other activities.

These activities were not.

So in the present and future, when a technology comes along that represents such a change—that saves details of our activities with which to advise us later, or has us speaking to machines as if they were creatures—it will simply be more of the same.

With so many activities available at the resort, guests are bound to work up an appetite.

His brother was brought in and finally confessed, professing he had no knowledge of Jude's criminal activities.

If harm gets too close, stop your activities.

He remained, however, uncertain how to do so without immersing himself further in Lydia Larkin's sordid activities.

He wasn't trying to restrict her activities.

A brief consideration of some of the constructive achievements of his administration will show that the "destructive" theory of his political activities is not sustained by the facts.

But in Ethics a man's individual good is his own happiness; and his happiness is no mere state, but an activity of soul according to virtue in a mature life, requiring as conditions moderate bodily and external goods of fortune; his virtue is (I) moral virtue, which is acquired by habituation, and is a purposive habit of performing actions in the mean determined by right reason or prudence; requiring him, not to exclude, but to moderate his desires; and (2) intellectual virtue, which is either prudence of practical, or wisdom of speculative intellect; and his happiness is a kind of ascending scale of virtuous activities, in which moral virtue is limited by prudence, and prudence by wisdom; so that the speculative life of wisdom is the happiest and most divine, and the practical life of prudence and moral virtue secondary and human.

But as we grew up, reality set in that market forces did not allow those activities to pay enough to support us, so at some point we all figured out we had to "earn a living."

Saint Paul, is a good place for travelers, offering unique and distinctive restaurants, hotels and activities.

He desperately wants to eliminate what he sees as the only threat to his activities.

The three were north of sixty and involved with Fred's research activities.

The capital was the center of the commercial activities.

The revolution of 1848 arrested for a while her novelistic activities.

The spread of the modern industrial system has brought with it the modern state, with its millions of consumers, its vast area, its innumerable activities, its complicated code of industrial and commercial law.

It should be remembered that such comparatively simple activities, though there is little about them to arrest popular attention, are just the raw material out of which the normal active life of such organisms is elaborated, and that for scientific treatment they are therefore not less important than those more conspicuous performances which seem at first sight to call for special treatment, or even to demand a supplementary explanation.

This is but natural; for, though the progress of knowledge has not disproved the existence of devils, it has greatly limited the supposed range of their activities.

The very important activities of the Conseil Permanent International pour l'Exploration de la Mer were suspended during the war except in a few local seas.

The rapid growth of the Indian population from about 1890 caused much disquiet among the majority of the white inhabitants, who viewed with especial anxiety the activities 1 The causes, both local and general, are set forth in a despatch by the governor of the 21st of June 1906 and printed in the Blue Book, Cd.

Their original centre was Rome, but in view of the hostile attitude of the Salandra-Sonnino Government they transferred their activities to Paris and London early in 1915.

A subdivision of zoology which was at one time in favour is simply into morphology and physiology, the study of form and structure on the one hand, and the study of Scope the activities and functions of the forms and structures of zoo- on the other.

But in addition to these distinctive characters, living matter has some other peculiarities, the chief of which are the dependence of all its activities upon moisture and upon heat, within a limited range of temperature, and the fact that it usually possesses a certain structure or organization.

Richmond was for many years the centre, west of Philadelphia, of the activities of the Society of Friends.

Their physiological activities gradually fail owing to the constructive processes having become so exhausted from long use that the destructive ones are able to overtake them.

We have analogies to this in the two nuclei of some of the protozoa, the one being solely for the purpose of propagation, the other being associated with the functional activities of the cell.

Her earliest political activities in her student days were connected with the Socialist movement in the country of her birth, but about 1895 she migrated to Germany.

The activities of Prof. Masaryk in Russia, England and America, enthusiastically supported by his compatriots living abroad, and especially by the Czechs and Slovaks who had emigrated to the United States, the self-sacrificing valour of the Czechoslovak legions on the French, Italian and Russian fronts, and the work of the Czechoslovak Council with its headquarters at Paris, moved the Allies to acknowledge the last-named body as the de facto Provisional Government of the Czechoslovak State.

The proposals made were put forward to improve the management of Council activities and to provide a more contemporary and flexible structure.

The town of Ouray was so oblivious to these frequent winter gifts from Mother Nature that snow caused not a hitch in the local activities.

Fred began eating his cereal, with a serving spoon, a sure sign he wanted to accelerate the process and get on with the day's activities.

Not only did the intensifying snow make climbing even more dangerous than usual, but Shipton's accident had cloaked a pall over everyone's activities.

He returned to his rocker, sipped his beer and began to patiently answer the barrage of Fred's questions about his day's activities.

The neighbors continued to help, but they had their own lives to live and she was encouraging them to get back to their normal activities.

The pair finished their burglary report and agreed to try and keep the matter out of the papers in deference to Dean's other police activities.

In the meantime, Dean had all he could do to keep up with Parkside's police day-to-day activities.

Avoiding the possessed king, Taran took his place directing the great hall's activities.

Certain concordats deal with the orders and congregations of monks and nuns with a view to subjecting them to a certain control while securing to them the legal exercise of their activities.