Action
(n.) A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest |
Action
(n.) An act |
Action
(n.) The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition |
Action
(n.) Movement |
Action
(n.) Effective motion |
Action
(n.) Any one of the active processes going on in an organism |
Action
(n.) Gesticulation |
Action
(n.) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted. |
Action
(n.) A suit or process, by which a demand is made of a right in a court of justice |
Action
(n.) A right of action |
Action
(n.) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds |
Action
(n.) An engagement between troops in war, whether on land or water |
Action
(n.) The mechanical contrivance by means of which the impulse of the player's finger is transmitted to the strings of a pianoforte or to the valve of an organ pipe. |
Alert
(a.) Watchful |
Alert
(a.) Brisk |
Alert
(n.) An alarm from a real or threatened attack |
Battle
(a.) Fertile. See Battel, a. |
Battle
(v. t.) A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged |
Battle
(v. t.) A struggle |
Battle
(v. t.) A division of an army |
Battle
(v. t.) The main body, as distinct from the van and rear |
Battle
(n.) To join in battle |
Battle
(v. t.) To assail in battle |
Battle-ax
(n.) Alt. of Battle-axe |
Battle-axe
(n.) A kind of broadax formerly used as an offensive weapon. |
Fully
(adv.) In a full manner or degree |
Give
(n.) To bestow without receiving a return |
Give
(n.) To yield possesion of |
Give
(n.) To yield |
Give
(n.) To communicate or announce, as advice, tidings, etc. |
Give
(n.) To grant power or license to |
Give
(n.) To exhibit as a product or result |
Give
(n.) To devote |
Give
(n.) To set forth as a known quantity or a known relation, or as a premise from which to reason |
Give
(n.) To allow or admit by way of supposition. |
Give
(n.) To attribute |
Give
(n.) To excite or cause to exist, as a sensation |
Give
(n.) To pledge |
Give
(n.) To cause |
Give
(v. i.) To give a gift or gifts. |
Give
(v. i.) To yield to force or pressure |
Give
(v. i.) To become soft or moist. |
Give
(v. i.) To move |
Give
(v. i.) To shed tears |
Give
(v. i.) To have a misgiving. |
Give
(v. i.) To open |
Readiness
(n.) The state or quality of being ready |
Self-action
(n.) Action by, or originating in, one's self or itself. |
act
deed
human action
human activity | something that people do or cause to happen |
| action | something done (usually as opposed to something said), there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions |
course
course of action | a mode of action, if you persist in that course you will surely fail, once a nation is embarked on a course of action it becomes extremely difficult for any retraction to take place |
| interchange reciprocation give-and-take | mutual interaction, the activity of reciprocating or exchanging (especially information) |
| maneuver manoeuvre evasive action | an action aimed at evading an opponent |
performance
execution carrying out carrying into action | the act of performing, of doing something successfully, using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it, they criticised his performance as mayor, experience generally improves performance |
melee
scrimmage
battle royal | a noisy riotous fight |
| give-and-go | a basketball maneuver, one offensive player passes the ball to another, then runs toward the basket to take a return pass |
| action | 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 |
| struggle battle | an energetic attempt to achieve something, getting through the crowd was a real struggle, he fought a battle for recognition |
reflex
reflex response
reflex action
instinctive reflex
innate reflex
inborn reflex
unconditioned reflex
physiological reaction | an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus |
military action
action | a military engagement, he saw action in Korea |
battle
conflict fight engagement | a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war, Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga, he lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement |
| police action | a local military action without declaration of war, against violators of international peace and order |
| pitched battle | a fierce battle fought in close combat between troops in predetermined positions at a chosen time and place |
| naval battle | a pitched battle between naval fleets |
conflict
struggle battle | an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals), the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph--Thomas Paine, police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs |
replay
instant replay
action replay | the immediate rebroadcast of some action (especially sports action) that has been recorded on videotape |
| group action | action taken by a group of people |
| direct action | a protest action by labor or minority groups to obtain their demands |
| battle of wits | a contest in which intelligence rather than violence is used |
legal action
action action at law | 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 |
| action | 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 |
class action
class-action suit | a lawsuit brought by a representative member of a large group of people on behalf of all members of the group |
| civil action | legal action to protect a private civil right or to compel a civil remedy (as distinguished from criminal prosecution) |
| custody battle | litigation to settle custody of the children of a divorced couple |
| job action | a temporary action by workers to protest management decision or to make demands |
Atlanta
battle of Atlanta | a siege in which Federal troops under Sherman cut off the railroads supplying the city and then burned it, |
Austerlitz
battle of Austerlitz | a decisive battle during the Napoleonic campaigns (), the French under Napoleon defeated the Russian armies of Czar Alexander I and the Austrian armies of Emperor Francis II |
| Battle of Britain | the prolonged bombardment of British cities by the German Luftwaffe during World War II and the aerial combat that accompanied it |
| Battle of Kerbala | a battle inin which the grandson of Mohammed and his followers were killed, the Battle of Kerbala is the basis for the Ta'ziyehs that are performed annually |
Battle of the Ardennes Bulge
Battle of the Bulge
Ardennes counteroffensive | a battle during World War II, in December von Rundstedt launched a powerful counteroffensive in the forest at Ardennes and caught the Allies by surprise |
Battle of the Marne
Belleau Wood
Chateau-Thierry
Marne River | a World War I battle in northwestern France where the Allies defeated the Germans in |
Bismarck Sea
battle of the Bismarck Sea | a naval battle in World War II, Allied land-based bombers destroyed a Japanese convoy in the Bismarck Sea in March |
Boyne
battle of Boyne | a battle in the War of the Grand Alliance in Ireland in , William III defeated the deposed James II and so ended the Catholicism that had been reintroduced in England by the Stuarts |
Brunanburh
battle of Brunanburh | a battle in when Athelstan defeated the Scots |
Bull Run
Battle of Bull Run | either of two battles during the American Civil War ( and ), Confederate forces defeated the Federal army in both battles |
Bunker Hill
battle of Bunker Hill | the first important battle of the American War of Independence () which was fought at Breed's Hill, the British defeated the colonial forces |
Caporetto
battle of Caporetto | battle of World War I (), Italians were defeated by the Austrian and German forces |
Chattanooga
battle of Chattanooga | in the American Civil War () the Union armies of Hooker, Thomas, and Sherman under the command of Ulysses S. Grant won a decisive victory over the Confederate Army under Braxton Bragg |
Chickamauga
battle of Chickamauga | a Confederate victory in the American Civil War (), Confederate forces under Braxton Bragg defeated Union forces |
Coral Sea
battle of the Coral Sea | a Japanese defeat in World War II (May ), the first naval battle fought entirely by planes based on aircraft carriers |
Cowpens
battle of Cowpens | battle in the American Revolution, Americans under Daniel Morgan defeated the British |
Crecy
battle of Crecy | the first decisive battle of the Hundred Years' War, in the English under Edward III defeated the French under Philip of Valois |
Cunaxa
battle of Cunaxa | battle inBC when the Artaxerxes II defeated his younger brother who tried to usurp the throne |
Cynoscephalae
battle of Cynoscephalae | the battle that ended the second Macedonian War ( BC), the Romans defeated Philip V who lost his control of Greece |
El Alamein
Al Alamayn
Battle of El Alamein | a pitched battle in World War II () resulting in a decisive Allied victory by British troops under Montgomery over German troops under Rommel |
Flodden
Battle of Flodden Field | a battle in , the English defeated the invading Scots and James IV was killed |
Fontenoy
Battle of Fontenoy | a battle in in which the French army under Marshal Saxe defeated the English army and their allies under the duke of Cumberland |
Fredericksburg
Battle of Fredericksburg | an important battle in the American Civil War (), the Union Army under A. E. Burnside was defeated by the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee |