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 |
| language lesson | a period of instruction learning a language |
reflex
reflex response
reflex action
instinctive reflex
innate reflex
inborn reflex
unconditioned reflex
physiological reaction | an automatic instinctive unlearned reaction to a stimulus |
| language teaching | teaching people to speak and understand a foreign language |
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) |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| right of action | the legal right to sue |
language area
language zone | a large cortical area (in the left hemisphere in most people) containing all the centers associated with language |
language
speech | the mental faculty or power of vocal communication, language sets homo sapiens apart from all other animals |
| language barrier | barrier to communication resulting from speaking different languages |
| language learning | learning to use a language |
possibility possible action
opening | a possible alternative, bankruptcy is always a possibility |
impossibility
impossible action | an alternative that is not available |
linguistic process
language | the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication, he didn't have the language to express his feelings |
| 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 |
| language requirement | a requirement that a student know certain languages |
| plan of action | a plan for actively doing something |
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 |
natural language processing
NLP
human language technology | the branch of information science that deals with natural language information |
language
linguistic communication | a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols, he taught foreign languages, the language introduced is standard throughout the text, the speed with which a program can be executed depends on the language in which it is written |
| dead language | a language that is no longer learned as a native language |
| source language | a language that is to be translated into another language |
| object language target language | the language into which a text written in another language is to be translated |
language unit
linguistic unit | one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed |
terminology
nomenclature
language | a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline, legal terminology, biological nomenclature, the language of sociology |
written communication
written language
black and white | communication by means of written symbols (either printed or handwritten) |
machine code
machine language | a set of instructions coded so that the computer can use it directly without further translation |
| action | the series of events that form a plot, his novels always have a lot of action |
| authoring language | software that can be used to develop interactive computer programs without the technically demanding task of computer programming |