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action, n.
(actions)
freq. cnt. 139
more info something done (usually as opposed to something said)
<noun.act>   freq. cnt.: 94 freq. cnt.: 94

action

sample sentences

"there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions"
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
act
semantic pointers
hypernym
act, human action, deed, human activity
hyponym
thing exercise kindness, benignity achievement, accomplishment alienation application res gestae course, course of action interaction fetch playing play, swordplay arrival performance, execution, carrying into action, carrying out selection, choice, option, pick change saving, economy prohibition, inhibition, forbiddance opposition, resistance bruxism transfusion pickings, taking transgression aggression, hostility destabilization, destabilisation employment, engagement politeness, civility reverence reference, consultation accenting, emphasizing, accentuation beatification jumpstart, jump-start stupefaction vampirism
more info the state of being active
<noun.state>   freq. cnt.: 54 freq. cnt.: 36 freq. cnt.: 18

action activeness activity

sample sentences

"his sphere of activity"
"he is out of action"
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derivationally related form
active active
antonym
inactivity
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
act act
antonym
inaction
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
active active active active active active active active active
antonym
inactiveness
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attribute
active
hypernym
state
hyponym
agency busyness, hum behavior, behaviour eruption, eructation, extravasation operation overdrive play swing
more info a military engagement
<noun.act>   freq. cnt.: 16 freq. cnt.: 16

action military action

sample sentences

"he saw action in Korea"
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amphibious landing battle, fight, engagement, conflict blockade, encirclement defense, defence, defensive measure electronic warfare, EW police action resistance saber rattling, sabre rattling sortie, sally war, warfare
hypernym
group action
domain of synset (topic)
armed forces, military, armed services, military machine, war machine
more info a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)
<noun.process>   freq. cnt.: 7 freq. cnt.: 7

action activity natural action natural process

sample sentences

"the action of natural forces"
"volcanic activity"
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derivationally related form
active active
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hypernym
process, physical process
hyponym
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 inactivation 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 soaking, soak, soakage softening sorption source stiffening, rigidifying, rigidification stimulation succession, ecological succession survival, survival of the fittest, natural selection, selection synergism, synergy temperature change transduction transpiration vitrification
more info 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
<noun.act>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

action action at law legal action
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derivationally related form
action
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hypernym
proceedings, proceeding, legal proceeding
domain of synset (topic)
law, jurisprudence
hyponym
antitrust case civil action counterclaim custody case lis pendens prosecution, criminal prosecution test suit, test case
more info the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism
<noun.artifact>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

action action mechanism

sample sentences

"the piano had a very stiff action"
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hypernym
mechanism
part holonym
gun keyboard
hyponym
gunlock, firing mechanism movement piano action slide action, pump action
part meronym
key
more info the trait of being active and energetic and forceful
<noun.attribute>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

action

sample sentences

"a man of action"
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hypernym
drive
more info the series of events that form a plot
<noun.communication>   freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

action

sample sentences

"his novels always have a lot of action"
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hypernym
plot
more info the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field
<noun.act>

action

sample sentences

"the action is no longer in technology stocks but in municipal bonds"
"gawkers always try to get as close to the action as possible"
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hypernym
work
more info an act by a government body or supranational organization
<noun.act>

action

sample sentences

"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"
semantic pointers
hypernym
group action