action
1. action (n)
something done (usually as opposed to something said). "there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions".
2. action (n)
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".
3. action (n)
a military engagement. "he saw action in Korea".
4. action (n)
a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another.
5. action (n)
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".
6. action (v)
put in effect. "He actioned the operation".
7. action (v)
institute legal proceedings against. "She actioned the company for discrimination".
8. action (n)
the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism. "the piano had a very stiff action".
9. action (n)
the trait of being active and energetic and forceful. "a man of action".
10. action (n)
the series of events that form a plot. "his novels always have a lot of action".
11. action (n)
a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings). "the action of natural forces".
12. action (n)
the state of being active. "he is out of action".
Opposite meanings of action (Anytonyms)
inaction, inaction, inactiveness, inactiveness, inactivity, inactivity
Words derived from action
act, move, action, litigate, process, sue, accomplishment, achievement, fulfillment, fulfilment, carrying out, execution, implementation, executive, action, action at law, legal action, case, causa, cause, lawsuit, suit, judicial proceeding, litigation, process, summons, petitioner, suer, active, active, active, active, active, active, active, active, act, move, act
action is related to the topic
armed forces, armed forces, armed services, armed services, military, military, military machine, military machine, war machine, war machine, jurisprudence, jurisprudence, law, law
action is an instance of
act, deed, human action, human activity, work, group action, legal proceeding, proceeding, proceedings, group action, complete, finish, effect, effectuate, set up, challenge, mechanism, drive, plot, physical process, process, state
Word and things that fall within action
thing, benignity, kindness, accomplishment, achievement, alienation, application, res gestae, course, course of action, interaction, fetch, playing, play, swordplay, arrival, carrying into action, carrying out, execution, performance, choice, option, pick, selection, change, economy, saving, forbiddance, inhibition, prohibition, opposition, resistance, bruxism, transfusion, pickings, taking, transgression, aggression, hostility, destabilisation, destabilization, employment, engagement, civility, politeness, reverence, consultation, reference, accenting, accentuation, emphasizing, beatification, jump-start, jumpstart, stupefaction, vampirism, amphibious landing, battle, conflict, engagement, fight, blockade, encirclement, defence, defense, defensive measure, electronic warfare, EW, police action, resistance, saber rattling, sabre rattling, sally, sortie, war, warfare, antitrust case, civil action, counterclaim, custody case, lis pendens, criminal prosecution, prosecution, test case, test suit, get over, run, consummate, consummate, do, perform, complete, discharge, dispatch, expedite, firing mechanism, gunlock, movement, piano action, pump action, slide action, radiation, absorption, acidification, adiabatic process, aeration, antiredeposition, capture, capture, centrifugation, chemical action, chemical change, chemical process, chromatography, concretion, condensation, convection, clotting, coagulation, curdling, decay, demagnetisation, demagnetization, desorption, diffusion, disintegration, dissolution, distillation, distillment, drift, effervescence, cataphoresis, dielectrolysis, electrophoresis, ionophoresis, ecesis, establishment, extinction, extraction, feedback, filtration, flocculation, flow, formation, fossilisation, fossilization, geologic process, geological process, curing, hardening, set, solidification, solidifying, inactivation, ion exchange, ionisation, ionization, leach, leaching, magnetic induction, magnetisation, magnetization, materialisation, materialization, nuclear reaction, opacification, oscillation, oxygenation, pair creation, pair formation, pair production, phase change, phase transition, physical change, state change, precession of the equinoxes, release, saltation, scattering, sericulture, sink, soak, soakage, soaking, softening, sorption, source, rigidification, rigidifying, stiffening, stimulation, ecological succession, succession, natural selection, selection, survival, survival of the fittest, synergism, synergy, temperature change, transduction, transpiration, vitrification, agency, busyness, hum, behavior, behaviour, eructation, eruption, extravasation, operation, overdrive, play, swing
Parts of or members of action
key
Verb Group
carry out, follow out, follow through, follow up, go through, implement, put through, litigate