| Main Entry: | action |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something done |
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activity, agility, alacrity, alertness, animation, bag*, ballgame, big idea, bit*, business, bustle, commotion, dash, deal, energy, enterprise, flurry, force, functioning, game, going, happening, haste, hoopla*, hopper, in the works, industry, life, liveliness, motion, movement, occupation, operation, plan, power, process, proposition, racket, reaction, response, rush, scene, spirit, stir, stunt, trip, turmoil, vigor, vim, vitality, vivacity |
Antonyms: |
cessation, idleness, inaction, inactivity, inertia, repose, rest, stoppage |
| Main Entry: | action |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | individual deed |
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accomplishment, achievement, act, blow, commission, dealings, doing, effort, enterprise, execution, exercise, exertion, exploit, feat, handiwork, maneuver, manipulation, move, operation, performance, procedure, step, stroke, thrust, transaction, undertaking |
| Main Entry: | action |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a legal process |
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case, cause, claim, lawsuit, litigation, proceeding, prosecution, suit |
| Main Entry: | action |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | an aggressive military deed |
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battle, combat, conflict, contest, encounter, engagement, fight, fighting, fray, skirmish, warfare |
| Main Entry: | actions |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conduct |
Synonyms: |
behavior |
| Concept: | Action. |
| Category: | 1. Simple voluntary action |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
action, performance; doing; perpetration; exercise, excitation; movement, operation, evolution, work; labor (exertion); praxis, execution; procedure (conduct); handicraft; business; agency (power at work)., deed, act, overt act, stitch, touch, gest transaction, job, doings, dealings, proceeding, measure, step, maneuver, bout, passage, move, stroke, blow; coup, coup de main, coup d'etat; tour de force (display); feat, exploit; achievement (completion); handiwork, workmanship; manufacture; stroke of policy (plan)., actor (doer).
-verbs
do, perform, execute; achieve (complete); transact, enact; commit, perpetrate, inflict; exercise, prosecute, carry on, work, practice, play., employ oneself, ply one's task; officiate, have in hand (business) [more]; labor; be at work; pursue a course; shape one's course (conduct) [more]., act, operate; take action, take steps; strike a blow, lift a finger, stretch forth one's hand; take in hand (undertake); put oneself in motion; put in practice; carry into execution (complete); act upon., be an actor; take a part in, act a part in, play a part in, perform a part in; participate in; have a hand in, have a finger in the pie; have to do with; be a party to, be a participator in; bear a hand, lend a hand; pull an oar, run in a race; mix oneself up with (meddle)., be in action; come into operation (power at work).
-adjectives
doing; acting; in action; in harness; on duty; in operation.
-adverbs
in the act, in the midst of, in the thick of; red-handed, in flagrante delicto; while one's hand is in.
-phrases
"action is eloquence" [Coriolanus]; actions speak louder than words; actum aiunt ne agas [Terence]; "awake, arise, or be forever fall'n" [Paradise Lost); dii pia facta vident [Ovid]; faire sams dire; fare fac; fronte capillata post est occasio calva; " our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts" [Bailey]; "the great end of life is not knowledge but action [Huxley]; "thought is the soul of act" [R. Browning]; vivre-ce
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Antonyms: |
inaction |
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| Main Entry: | act |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something done |
Synonyms: |
accomplishment, achievement, action, deed, doing, execution, exploit, feat, move, operation, performance, step, thing, undertaking |
| Notes: | an act is the main dramatic unit and a scene is a division within an act |
Antonyms: |
cessation, idleness, inactivity, inertia, quiet, quiet, repose, rest, stoppage, suspension |
| Main Entry: | activity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of being active |
Synonyms: |
action, activeness, animation, bustle, enterprise, exercise, exertion, hustle, labor, life, liveliness, motion, movement |
Antonyms: |
idleness, immobility, inactivity, indolence, inertia, laziness, sluggishness |
| Main Entry: | agency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power, instrumentality |
Synonyms: |
action, activity, auspices, channel, efficiency, force, influence, instrument, instrumentality, intercession, intervention, means, mechanism, mediation, medium, operation, organ, vehicle, work |
| Main Entry: | amusement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | entertaining, making someone laugh |
Synonyms: |
action, ball*, beguilement, cheer, delight, diversion, enjoyment, entertainment, field day, fun, fun and games, gladdening, gratification, grins, high time, hilarity, hoopla*, laughs, laughter, merriment, merry go round, mirth, picnic, play, pleasing, pleasure, regalement, whoopee |
Antonyms: |
boredom |