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. |
Alabama period
() A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic. |
Bed steps
() Steps for mounting a bed of unusual height. |
Catskill period
() The closing subdivision of the Devonian age in America. The rocks of this period are well developed in the Catskill mountains, and extend south and west under the Carboniferous formation. See the Diagram under Geology. |
Champlain period
() A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period |
Chemung period
() A subdivision in the upper part of the Devonian system in America, so named from the Chemung River, along which the rocks are well developed. It includes the Portage and Chemung groups or epochs. See the Diagram under Geology. |
Hamilton period
() A subdivision of the Devonian system of America |
Initiating
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Initiate |
Legal
(a.) Created by, permitted by, in conformity with, or relating to, law |
Legal
(a.) According to the law of works, as distinguished from free grace |
Legal
(a.) According to the old or Mosaic dispensation |
Legal
(a.) Governed by the rules of law as distinguished from the rules of equity |
Medico-legal
(a.) Of or pertaining to law as affected by medical facts. |
Niagara period
() A subdivision or the American Upper Silurian system, embracing the Medina, Clinton, and Niagara epoch. The rocks of the Niagara epoch, mostly limestones, are extensively distributed, and at Niagara Falls consist of about eighty feet of shale supporting a greater thickness of limestone, which is gradually undermined by the removal of the shale. See Chart of Geology. |
Period
(n.) A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies |
Period
(n.) A stated and recurring interval of time |
Period
(n.) One of the great divisions of geological time |
Period
(n.) The termination or completion of a revolution, cycle, series of events, single event, or act |
Period
(n.) A complete sentence, from one full stop to another |
Period
(n.) The punctuation point [.] that marks the end of a complete sentence, or of an abbreviated word. |
Period
(n.) One of several similar sets of figures or terms usually marked by points or commas placed at regular intervals, as in numeration, in the extraction of roots, and in circulating decimals. |
Period
(n.) The time of the exacerbation and remission of a disease, or of the paroxysm and intermission. |
Period
(n.) A complete musical sentence. |
Period
(v. t.) To put an end to. |
Period
(v. i.) To come to a period |
Salina period
() The period in which the American Upper Silurian system, containing the brine-producing rocks of central New York, was formed. See the Chart of Geology. |
Self-action
(n.) Action by, or originating in, one's self or itself. |
Trenton period
() A subdivision in the lower Silurian system of America |
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 |
| 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 |
wrong
legal injury
damage | any harm or injury resulting from a violation of a legal right |
constructive fraud
legal fraud | comprises all acts or omissions or concealments involving breach of equitable or legal duty or trust or confidence |
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 |
| 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 |
delivery livery
legal transfer | the voluntary transfer of something (title or possession) from one party to another |
| legal duty | acts which the law requires be done or forborne |
| 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) |
proceeding
legal proceeding
proceedings | (law) the institution of a sequence of steps by which legal judgments are invoked |
eviction
dispossession
legal ouster | the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law |
legal separation
separation | (law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order) |
course session
class period
recitation | a regularly scheduled session as part of a course of study |
| 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 |
flight
flight of stairs
flight of steps | a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next |
| period piece | any work of art whose special value lies in its evocation of a historical period |
| 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 |
sea ladder
sea steps | (nautical) ladder to be lowered over a ship's side for coming aboard |
stairs
steps | a flight of stairs or a flight of steps |
| action | the trait of being active and energetic and forceful, a man of action |
| legal right | a right based in law |
| right of action | the legal right to sue |
legal power
jurisdiction | (law) the right and power to interpret and apply the law, courts having jurisdiction in this district |
possibility possible action
opening | a possible alternative, bankruptcy is always a possibility |
impossibility
impossible action | an alternative that is not available |
| law of mass action | (chemistry) the law that states the following principle: the rate of a chemical reaction is directly proportional to the molecular concentrations of the reacting substances |
third law of motion
Newton's third law of motion
Newton's third law
law of action and reaction | action and reaction are equal and opposite |
| plan of action | a plan for actively doing something |
| legal system | a system for interpreting and enforcing the laws |
legal principle
judicial principle
judicial doctrine | (law) a principle underlying the formulation of jurisprudence |
mass-action principle
mass action | (neurology) the principle that the cortex of the brain operates as a coordinated system with large masses of neural tissue involved in all complex functioning |
jurisprudence
law legal philosophy | the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do |
| action | the series of events that form a plot, his novels always have a lot of action |
legal document
legal instrument
official document
instrument | (law) a document that states some contractual relationship or grants some right |