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. |
Dismissed
(imp. & p. p.) of Dismiss |
Dismissal
(n.) Dismission |
Electro-motion
(n.) The motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit |
Excito-motion
(n.) Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory. |
Ideo-motion
(n.) An ideo-motor movement. |
Link motion
() A valve gear, consisting of two eccentrics with their rods, giving motion to a slide valve by an adjustable connecting bar, called the link, in such a way that the motion of the engine can be reversed, or the cut-off varied, at will |
Make
(n.) A companion |
Make
(v. t.) To cause to exist |
Make
(v. t.) To form of materials |
Make
(v. t.) To produce, as something artificial, unnatural, or false |
Make
(v. t.) To bring about |
Make
(v. t.) To execute with the requisite formalities |
Make
(v. t.) To gain, as the result of one's efforts |
Make
(v. t.) To find, as the result of calculation or computation |
Make
(v. t.) To put a desired or desirable condition |
Make
(v. t.) To cause to be or become |
Make
(v. t.) To cause to appear to be |
Make
(v. t.) To require |
Make
(v. t.) To become |
Make
(v. t.) To compose, as parts, ingredients, or materials |
Make
(v. t.) To be engaged or concerned in. |
Make
(v. t.) To reach |
Make
(v. i.) To act in a certain manner |
Make
(v. i.) To proceed |
Make
(v. i.) To tend |
Make
(v. i.) To increase |
Make
(v. i.) To compose verses |
Make
(n.) Structure, texture, constitution of parts |
Make-belief
(n.) A feigning to believe |
Make-believe
(n.) A feigning to believe, as in the play of children |
Make-believe
(a.) Feigned |
Make-game
(n.) An object of ridicule |
Make-peace
(n.) A peacemaker. |
Make-up
(n.) The way in which the parts of anything are put together |
Motion
(n.) The act, process, or state of changing place or position |
Motion
(n.) Power of, or capacity for, motion. |
Motion
(n.) Direction of movement |
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 |
| 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 |
| move | the act of deciding to do something, he didn't make a move to help, his first move was to hire a lawyer |
| move | (game) a player's turn to take some action permitted by the rules of the game |
| chess move | the act of moving a chess piece |
| move relocation | the act of changing your residence or place of business, they say that three moves equal one fire |
makeshift
stopgap
make-do | something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency |
dismissal
dismission
discharge firing liberation release sack
sacking | the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) |
first step
initiative
opening move
opening | the first of a series of actions |
| motion movement move | the act of changing location from one place to another, police controlled the motion of the crowd, the movement of people from the farms to the cities, his move put him directly in my path |
progress
progression
procession advance
advancement forward motion
onward motion | the act of moving forward (as toward a goal) |
motion
movement
move motility | a change of position that does not entail a change of location, the reflex motion of his eyebrows revealed his surprise, movement is a sign of life, an impatient move of his hand, gastrointestinal motility |
shuffle
shuffling
make | the act of mixing cards haphazardly |
rotation
rotary motion | the act of rotating as if on an axis, the rotation of the dancer kept time with the music |
| 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 |
busywork
make-work | active work of little value, while he was waiting he filled the days with busywork |
time and motion study
time-and-motion study
time-motion study
motion study
time study
work study | an analysis of a specific job in an effort to find the most efficient method in terms of time and effort |
make-believe
pretend | the enactment of a pretense, it was just pretend |
reflex
reflex response
reflex action
instinctive reflex
innate reflex
inborn reflex
unconditioned reflex
physiological reaction | an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus |
filming
cinematography
motion-picture photography | the act of making a film |
military action
action | a military engagement, he saw action in Korea |
| police action | a local military action without declaration of war, against violators of international peace and order |
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 |
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) |
judgment of dismissal
judgement of dismissal
dismissal | a judgment disposing of the matter without a trial |
| job action | a temporary action by workers to protest management decision or to make demands |
Abstract Expressionism
action painting | a New York school of painting characterized by freely created abstractions, the first important school of American painting to develop independently of European styles |
action
action mechanism | the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism, the piano had a very stiff action |
arena
scene of action | a playing field where sports events take place |
| delayed action | a mechanism that automatically delays the release of a camera shutter for a fixed period of time so that the photographer can appear in the picture |
makeup
make-up
war paint | cosmetics applied to the face to improve or change your appearance |
motion-picture camera
movie camera
cineamera | a camera that takes a sequence of photographs that can give the illusion of motion when viewed in rapid succession |
motion-picture film
movie film
cine-film | photographic film several hundred feet long and wound on a spool, to be used in a movie camera |
| perpetual motion machine | a machine that can continue to do work indefinitely without drawing energy from some external source, impossible under the law of conservation of energy |
| piano action | action consisting of a system of levers that move a felt hammer to strike the strings when a key is depressed |
pump action
slide action | action mechanism in a modern rifle or shotgun, a back and forward motion of a sliding lever ejects the empty shell case and cocks the firearm and loads a new round |
| action | the trait of being active and energetic and forceful, a man of action |
constitution
composition physical composition
makeup
make-up | the way in which someone or something is composed |
| right of action | the legal right to sue |
pretense pretence
make-believe | imaginative intellectual play |
possibility possible action
opening | a possible alternative, bankruptcy is always a possibility |
impossibility
impossible action | an alternative that is not available |