'action' definitions:
Definition of 'action'
(from WordNet)
noun
Something done (usually as opposed to something said); "there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions"
noun
The state of being active; "his sphere of activity"; "he is out of action" [syn: action, activity, activeness] [ant: inaction, inactiveness, inactivity]
noun
A military engagement; "he saw action in Korea" [syn: military action, action]
noun
A process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings); "the action of natural forces"; "volcanic activity" [syn: natural process, natural action, action, activity]
noun
The series of events that form a plot; "his novels always have a lot of action"
noun
The trait of being active and energetic and forceful; "a man of action"
noun
The operating part that transmits power to a mechanism; "the piano had a very stiff action" [syn: action, action mechanism]
noun
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 [syn: legal action, action, action at law]
noun
An act by a government body or supranational organization; "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"
noun
The most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field; "the action is no longer in technology stocks but in municipal bonds"; "gawkers always try to get as close to the action as possible"
verb
Institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against; "He was warned that the district attorney would process him"; "She actioned the company for discrimination" [syn: action, sue, litigate, process]
verb
Put in effect; "carry out a task"; "execute the decision of the people"; "He actioned the operation" [syn: carry through, accomplish, execute, carry out, action, fulfill, fulfil]
Synonyms of 'action'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accomplished fact,
- accomplishment,
- achievement,
- act,
- acta,
- actions,
- activeness,
- activism,
- activity,
- acts,
- ad hoc measure,
- address,
- adventure,
- aerial combat,
- affectation,
- affray,
- agency,
- air,
- amphibious operations,
- anagnorisis,
- angle,
- answer,
- architectonics,
- architecture,
- argument,
- armored combat,
- artifice,
- atmosphere,
- automatic control,
- award,
- background,
- ball,
- battle,
- battle royal,
- bearing,
- behavior,
- behavior pattern,
- behavioral norm,
- behavioral science,
- big time,
- blow,
- brush,
- bullfight,
- business,
- carriage,
- cascade control,
- case,
- catastrophe,
- cause,
- cause in court,
- characterization,
- clash,
- clash of arms,
- clockworks,
- cockfight,
- color,
- combat,
- combined operations,
- complication,
- comportment,
- condemnation,
- conduct,
- conflict,
- consideration,
- continuity,
- contrivance,
- control action,
- countermove,
- coup,
- course of action,
- culture pattern,
- custom,
- dealings,
- decision,
- decree,
- deed,
- deliverance,
- demarche,
- demeanor,
- denouement,
- deportment,
- design,
- determination,
- development,
- device,
- diagnosis,
- dictum,
- direction,
- discharge,
- dodge,
- dogfight,
- doing,
- doings,
- doom,
- drive train,
- driving,
- dry run,
- effect,
- effectiveness,
- effectuation,
- effort,
- electronic control,
- embroilment,
- encounter,
- endeavor,
- energy,
- engagement,
- enterprise,
- episode,
- exchange of blows,
- execution,
- exercise,
- exertion,
- expedient,
- exploit,
- fable,
- fait accompli,
- falling action,
- feat,
- feedback control,
- fight,
- fighting,
- finding,
- fire fight,
- fluid operations,
- folkway,
- force,
- fray,
- fulfillment,
- fun,
- fun and games,
- function,
- functioning,
- funmaking,
- game,
- gear,
- gest,
- gestures,
- gimmick,
- go,
- goings-on,
- good time,
- great fun,
- ground combat,
- guise,
- hand,
- hand-to-hand combat,
- hand-to-hand fight,
- handiwork,
- handling,
- high old time,
- high time,
- house-to-house combat,
- improvisation,
- incident,
- influence,
- initiative,
- innards,
- job,
- judicial process,
- jury-rig,
- jury-rigged expedient,
- last expedient,
- last resort,
- last shift,
- laughs,
- lawsuit,
- legal action,
- legal case,
- legal proceedings,
- legal process,
- legal remedy,
- line,
- litigation,
- liveliness,
- local color,
- logistics,
- lovely time,
- machinery,
- maintien,
- makeshift,
- management,
- maneuver,
- maneuvers,
- manipulation,
- manner,
- manners,
- means,
- measure,
- mechanism,
- method,
- methodology,
- methods,
- mien,
- militancy,
- military operations,
- minor operations,
- mission,
- modus vivendi,
- mood,
- motif,
- motion,
- motions,
- move,
- movement,
- movements,
- moves,
- mythos,
- naval combat,
- observable behavior,
- occupation,
- operancy,
- operation,
- operations,
- order,
- overseas operations,
- overt act,
- passage,
- passage of arms,
- pattern,
- performance,
- performing,
- peripeteia,
- picnic,
- pis aller,
- pitched battle,
- plan,
- play,
- pleasant time,
- plot,
- poise,
- political activism,
- port,
- pose,
- posture,
- power,
- power train,
- practice,
- praxis,
- precedent,
- presence,
- procedure,
- proceeding,
- proceedings,
- process,
- production,
- prognosis,
- pronouncement,
- prosecution,
- quarrel,
- reaction,
- recognition,
- remedy,
- res gestae,
- resolution,
- resort,
- resource,
- responsibility,
- rising action,
- robot control,
- ruling,
- rumble,
- running,
- running fight,
- scheme,
- scramble,
- scrimmage,
- scuffle,
- secondary plot,
- sentence,
- servo control,
- servomechanism,
- shake-up,
- shift,
- shoving match,
- skirmish,
- slant,
- social science,
- solution,
- sortie,
- spirit,
- sport,
- staff work,
- stand-up fight,
- steering,
- step,
- stir,
- stopgap,
- story,
- stratagem,
- street fight,
- strength,
- stroke,
- stroke of policy,
- structure,
- struggle,
- stunt,
- style,
- subject,
- subplot,
- suit,
- suit at law,
- supervisory control,
- switch,
- tactic,
- tactics,
- tauromachy,
- temporary expedient,
- thematic development,
- theme,
- thing,
- thing done,
- tone,
- topic,
- tour de force,
- transaction,
- trick,
- trump,
- tug-of-war,
- turn,
- tussle,
- twist,
- undertaking,
- verdict,
- vigor,
- vim,
- vitality,
- war game,
- war plans,
- watchworks,
- way,
- way of life,
- ways,
- wheels,
- wheels within wheels,
- work,
- working,
- working hypothesis,
- working proposition,
- workings,
- works
Words containing 'action'
- actionable,
- in action,
- Action on the case,
- Bail to the action,
- Breech action,
- Chose in action,
- Circuit of action,
- Circuity of action,
- Civil action,
- Criminal action,
- Cross action,
- Cumulative action,
- Direct action,
- Funicular action,
- Grand action,
- Local actions,
- Mixed action,
- Penal action,
- Personal action,
- Petitory action,
- Plutonic action,
- Pneumatic action,
- Popular action,
- Possessory action,
- Real action,
- Reflex action,
- Side action,
- To clear for action,
- Transitory action,
- action at law,
- action mechanism,
- action officer,
- action painting,
- action plant,
- action potential,
- action replay,
- action spectrum,
- affirmative action,
- capillary action,
- carrying into action,
- cause of action,
- chemical action,
- class action,
- contact action,
- course of action,
- delayed action,
- evasive action,
- group action,
- human action,
- impossible action,
- in full action,
- job action,
- legal action,
- man of action,
- mass action,
- mechanism of action,
- military action,
- natural action,
- party to the action,
- piano action,
- plan of action,
- police action,
- possible action,
- pump action,
- right of action,
- scene of action,
- slide action,
- social action,
- Self-action,
- To clear a ship for action,
- law of action and reaction,
- law of mass action,
- political action committee,
- unipolar induction action,
- class-action suit,
- mass-action principle,
- Back-action steam engine,
- direct-action steam engine,
- direct-action steam pump,
- disabled hors de combat out of action,
- lautaro faction of the united popular action movement