action
IPA: ˈækʃʌn
noun
- The effort of performing or doing something.
- Something done, often so as to accomplish a purpose.
- A way of motion or functioning.
- Fast-paced activity.
- The way in which a mechanical device acts when used; especially a firearm.
- (firearms) The way in which cartridges are loaded, locked, and extracted from the mechanism.
- (music) 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.
- (music, lutherie) The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on a guitar or other string instrument.
- (slang, typically with a quantifier) Sexual intercourse.
- (military) Combat.
- (law) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
- (mathematics) 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.
- (physics) The product of energy and time, especially the product of the Lagrangian and time.
- (literature) 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.
- (art, painting and sculpture) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.
- (bowling) spin put on the bowling ball.
- (obsolete) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds.
- (Christianity) A religious performance or solemn function, i.e. action sermon, a sacramental sermon in the Scots Presbyterian Church.
- (sciences) a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings).
- A demonstration by activists.
verb
- (transitive, management) To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.
- (transitive, chiefly archaic) To initiate a legal action against someone.
adjective
- (Manglish) arrogant
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Examples of "action" in Sentences
- Her action was spontaneous.
- Their actions are predictive.
- But your action was discreditable.
- Is the foregoing actionably libelous
- In the forest, the action is thrilling.
- It is the actions that are disreputable.
- His actions were aberrant and do not define the group.
- Do you think the actions of the rioters are morally acceptable or not
- All of them suspiciously use the same phrases and do the same actions.
- Consciousness is the actor, the action, the process and the witness of action.