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. |
Dismiss (v. t.) To send away |
Dismiss (v. t.) To discard |
Dismiss (v. t.) To lay aside or reject as unworthy of attentions or regard, as a petition or motion in court. |
Dismiss (n.) Dismission. |
Order (n.) Regular arrangement |
Order (n.) Of material things, like the books in a library. |
Order (n.) Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource. |
Order (n.) Of periods of time or occurrences, and the like. |
Order (n.) Right arrangement |
Order (n.) The customary mode of procedure |
Order (n.) Conformity with law or decorum |
Order (n.) That which prescribes a method of procedure |
Order (n.) A command |
Order (n.) Hence: A commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods |
Order (n.) A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position |
Order (n.) A body of persons having some common honorary distinction or rule of obligation |
Order (n.) An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop |
Order (n.) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture |
Order (n.) An assemblage of genera having certain important characters in common |
Order (n.) The placing of words and members in a sentence in such a manner as to contribute to force and beauty or clearness of expression. |
Order (n.) Rank |
Order (n.) To put in order |
Order (n.) To give an order to |
Order (n.) To give an order for |
Order (n.) To admit to holy orders |
Order (v. i.) To give orders |
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 |
maneuver manoeuvre evasive action | an action aimed at evading an opponent |
mail-order buying catalog buying | buying goods to be shipped through the mail |
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 |
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 |
tall order large order | a formidable task or requirement, finishing in time was a tall order but we did it |
reflex reflex response reflex action instinctive reflex innate reflex inborn reflex unconditioned reflex physiological reaction | an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus |
order arms | a position in the manual of arms, the rifle is held vertically on the right side with the butt on the ground, often used as a command |
close-order drill | (military) military drill of troops in standard marching (shoulder-to-shoulder) |
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 |
order ordering | the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement, there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list |
rank order | an arrangement according to rank |
replay instant replay action replay | the immediate rebroadcast of some action (especially sports action) that has been recorded on videotape |
holy order | the sacrament of ordination |
group action | action taken by a group of people |
telephone order | receiving orders via telephone |
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) |
job action | a temporary action by workers to protest management decision or to make demands |
animal order | the order of animals |
protoctist order | the order of protoctists |
bacteria order | an order of bacteria |
Eubacteriales order Eubacteriales | one of two usually recognized orders of true bacteria, Gram-positive spherical or rod-shaped forms, some are motile, in some classifications considered an order of Schizomycetes |
Pseudomonadales order Pseudomonadales | one of two usually recognized orders of true bacteria, Gram-negative spiral or spherical or rod-shaped bacteria usually motile by polar flagella, some contain photosynthetic pigments |
Rickettsiales order Rickettsiales | pleomorphic Gram-negative microorganisms |
Mycoplasmatales order Mycoplasmatales | coextensive with the family Mycoplasmataceae |
Actinomycetales order Actinomycetales | filamentous or rod-shaped bacteria |
order Myxobacteria Myxobacterales order Myxobacterales Myxobacteriales order Myxobacteriales | an order of higher bacteria |
Spirochaetales order Spirochaetales | higher bacteria, slender spiral rodlike forms |
Heliozoa order Heliozoa | mostly freshwater protozoa |
Radiolaria order Radiolaria | marine protozoa |
Amoebida order Amoebida Amoebina order Amoebina | the animal order including amoebas |
Foraminifera order Foraminifera | foraminifers |
Testacea order Testacea | testacean rhizopods |
Heterotrichales order Heterotrichales | yellow-green algae with simple or branching filaments, comprising the single family Tribonemaceae |
Laminariales order Laminariales | in some classifications coextensive with family Laminariaceae: marine brown algae of cold or polar seas |
Fucales order Fucales | coextensive with the family Fucaceae |
Ulvales order Ulvales | an order of protoctist |
Volvocales order Volvocales | chiefly freshwater green algae, solitary or colonial |
Zygnematales order Zygnematales Zygnemales order Zygnemales | pond scums, desmids |
Chlorococcales order Chlorococcales | unicellular green algae that reproduce by spores |
Oedogoniales order oedogoniales | simple or branched filamentous freshwater green algae |
Charales order Charales | small order of macroscopic fresh and brackish water algae with a distinct axis: stoneworts |
Dinoflagellata order Dinoflagellata Cilioflagellata order Cilioflagellata | in some classifications considered a phylum of the kingdom Protista, in others included in the plant phylum Pyrrophyta |