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Action
AC'TION, n. [L. actio. See Act.]
1. Literally, a driving; hence, the state of acting or moving; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; or action is the effect of power exerted on one body by another; motion produced. Hence, action is opposed to rest. Action, when produced by one body on another, is mechanical; when produced by the will of living being, spontaneous or voluntary.
[See Def. 3.]
2. An act or thing done; a deed.
The Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him are actions weighed. 1 Sam 2.
3. In mechanics, agency; operation; driving impulse; effort of one body upon another; as, the action of wind upon a ship's sails. Also the effect of such action.
4. In ethics, the external signs or expression of the sentiments of a moral agent; conduct; behavior; demeanor; that is, motion or movement, with respect to a rule or propriety.
5. In poetry, a series of events, called also the subject or fable; this is of two kinds; the principal action which is more strictly the fable, and the incidental action or episode.
6. In oratory, gesture or gesticulation; the external deportment of the speaker, or the accommodation of his attitude, voice, gestures, and countenance to the subject, or to the thoughts and feelings of the mind.
7. In physiology, the motions or functions of the body, vital, animal and natural; vital and involuntary, as the action of the heart and lungs; animal, as muscular, and all voluntary motions; natural, as manducation, deglutition, and digestion.
8. In law, literally, an urging for right; a suit or process, by which a demand is made of a right; a claim made before a tribunal. Actions are real, personal or mixed; real, or feudal, when the demandant claims a title to real estate; personal when a man demands a debt, personal duty, or damages in lieu of it, or satisfaction for an injury to person or property; and mixed, when real estate is demanded, with damages for a wrong sustained. Actions are also civil or penal; civil, when instituted solely in behalf of private persons, to recover debts or damages; penal, when instituted to recover a penalty, imposed by way of punishment. The word is also used for a right of action; as, the law gives an action for every claim.
A chose in action, is a right to a thing, in opposition to the possession. A bond or note is a chose in action and gives the owner a right to prosecute his claim to the money, as he has an absolute property in a right, as well as in a thing, in possession.
9. In some countries of Europe, action is a share in the capital stock of a company, or in the public funds, equivalent to our term share; and consequently, in a more general sense, to stocks. The word is also used for movable effects.
10. In painting and sculpture, the attitude or position of the several parts of the body, by which they seem to be actuated by passions; as, the arm extended, to represent the act of giving or receiving.
11. Battle; fight; engagement between troops in war, whether on land or water, or by a greater or smaller number of combatants. This and the 8th definition exhibit the literal meaning of action - a driving or urging.
Quantity of action, in physics, the product of the mass of a body by the space it runs through and its velocity.
In many cases action and act are synonymous; but some distinction between them is observable. Action seems to have more relation to the power that acts, and its operation and process of acting; and act, more relation to the effect or operation complete. Action is also more generally used for ordinary transactions; and act, for such as are remarkable, or dignified; as, all our actions should be regulated by prudence; a prince is distinguished by acts of heroism or humanity.
Action taking, in Shakespeare, is used for litigious.
action appears in definitions for these words:
Abandoning Ablative About Above Abrade Abrood Abstinence Abstract Acceleration Accident Account Accountability Accusative Achievement Act Acting Action Actionable Actionary Actionist Active Actively Activity Actual Actuate Actuated Actuating Actuation Adjudication Adorn Advisement Advocation Affront Affronted Afoot Agency Agent Agitate Agitation Air Alive Allurement Alluvium Alternacy Analyze Animosity Antagonism Antimetabole Antipathy Antiperistasis Antiphlogistic Antistasis Ape Apologue Apoplexy Appetence Applaud Approbation Aptitude Areopagus Arouse Aroused Arousing Arrest Art Arterial Ashamed Assignment Associate Assumpsit Atilt Attachment Attenuation Attitude Attorney Auditor Authority Automatic Auxiliar Avow Avowry Awake Awork Aworking Backwardness Bad Bailpiece Ballet Banter Bar Bardesanists Barricade Basking Battalia Battery Bay-salt Behavior Beneficent Bestir Bestirred Bestirring Betake Between Beyond Biographer Blandish Blandishment Blank Blister Boarder Boast Boastful Boasting Boil Boiled Bout Bowlder Bowlder-wall Boy Brag Breath Breathe Breathless Brief Brine-pan Bring Briskness Broil Brutism Buckle Burn Burnt Burst Business Calcinable Calcine Calefaction Call Calumniation Campain Candidate Carbonize Cardiac Career Carp Case Cast Catch Category Causality Cause Cessation Champ Champing Chancery Charitable Charity Chief Chili Chimistry Chose Chyme Ciceronian Ciceronianism Circumstance Clear Climax Close Coefficient Cognizable Cognizance Cognizee Cold Collect Collusion Combustibility Combustibleness Come Commence Comment Common Comparison Compile Complicate Concomitance Concur Concurring Condignity Conducive Conduct Confinement Conflict Congruity Connection Conscience Consciously Consecutive Consequence Consideration Constrain Constraint Contingency Contract Convulse Copple-stones Cordial Correspond Corrosion Costume Counteraction Counterwrought Course Cowardly Cramp Cross Cross-bar-shot Cumbrance Cumbrous Curiosity Cut Damp Dead Deaden Dealing Death Debt Decency Decent Deed Default Deforciant Demand Demandant Denominate Denomination Descant Deserve Desire Despond Device Dexterity Diabolic Diabolical Diabolism Digestion Dignity Disable Discovery Disdain Disease Disembark Disgrace Disintegrated Disparage Dispute Distinction Doings Dormant Double-plea Drama Dramatic Dramatical Draw Drive Drunk Edge Edict Ejectment Elbow-room Elegance Element Eloquence Emergent Emulate Emulation Encouragement Encourager End Energy Engagement Enkindle Enkindled Enliven Enter Entire Epic Episode Epispastic Epopee Ethics Etiolation Evangelist Event Excel Exception Excitability Excitable Excitant Excite Excitement Exciting Excoriate Excusable Exercise Exert Exerted Exerting Exertion Exhibition Exhort Exigence Exit Expression Faculty Fame Farce Fashion Febrile Fee Field Fire Fit Flagitious Fleshbrush Flow Foot For Forbear Forbearance Forbearing Force Foreadvise Freckle Freewill Frequentative From Fry Function Galvanism Genius Gest Gesticulation Gesture Gist Good Gospel Govern Government Gracefulness Ground Hand Hastiness Heat Heating Heroic Hesitate Hesitation Highway Hinder History History-piece Homage Honor Hostility Humorist Hurried Hydroxanthic Idle Illustrious Imitate Immanacle Immoral Imparlance Impel Imperfect Imprudence Imprudent Impure Impute Inaction Inactivity Inactuate Incentive Inceptive Incident Incitant Incitation Incite Incited Incitement Inciter Inciting Inconvenience Inculcation Incumbrance Indecency Indecorous Indecorum Indefensible Indignant Indignity Indisposition Indolently Inert Inertion Inertness Inexertion Infamousness Infinitive Inflame Inflammatory Inhumanity Innocent Insolating Insolation Instinct Insult Intemperance Internal Intonation Intransitive Intrigue Intrinsic Introduction Intromission Intrusion Intumescence Inturgescence Inunction Inustion Invention Investigation Investiture Investment Invigoration Involution Irregular Irritable Irritate Irritation Irritative Jaculation Jest Joke Jurisdiction Keep Kill Kindle Kindled Kindling Languid Lassitude Latent Latitude Laudable Laudableness Law Lawfulness Laziness Lazy Lead Leaden Lean Level Lewd Libel Liberally Liberty Lie Liplabor Lively Living Local Lorication Magic Materially Mean Mechanic Mechanism Medal Mischaracterize Misconstruction Misconstrue Misdeed Mockery Mode Moderate Mood Moral Morality Morally Mortification Mortify Motion Motive Move Mover Mucus Narration Natural Nature Necessity Neuter Nonsuit Novel Obloquy Obsceneness Obtund Of Off Operate Operation Operative Opinion Ordinance Organ Organic Organization Organizing Orgasm Ousel Overdo Overpower Palmistry Palpitation Panegyric Pantomime Pantomimic Parade Paralize Part Passion Passive Pastoral Pattern Pause Perfective Performance Periodic Perpetration Perpetual Personal Personate Personify Phlegmatic Phlogiston Phosgene Pique Plaint Platinum Play Plea Poison Polarization Pole-ax Pooping Popular Possessory Possible Post Posture Potential Practical Practice Praise Praiseworthy Prank Precedence Precept Predetermination Predicament Premotion Preposition Present Pretend Pretense Pretension Preterimperfect Preterit Preterperfect Preterpluperfect Principle Privy Probity Procede Procedure Proceeding Process Procinct Profaner Prohibition Prompt Prompted Prompter Prompting Promptitude Promptness Propel Propound Prosecute Prostration Prothonotary Provoke Provoking Prudence Prudent Puerility Pumice Purpuric Push Put Quality Quantum Quarrel Quarter Quick Quit Quite Quixotism Raise Ranging Rash Rationale React Reaction Ready Real Reanimated Rebutter Recitative Recovery Redisseizor Reflect Reflex Refrain Remembrancer Rencounter Repeat Replevin Represent Reproach Requital Research Reserve Reserved Respect Rest Restif Restrain Restraining Restraint Retire Retraxit Retribution Retroaction Retroactive Retroactively Revive Reviviscent Rheum Rich Right Rise Romance Round Rouse Roused Rousing Rub Rule Ruling Sail Sailing Salutation Scan Scandalize Scant Scene Scenery Scratchingly Scripture Sea-fight Sedative Sedentarily See Self Self-moving Selfish Selfishly Sense Sequester Serviceableness Set Shackle Shackles Shame Show Shrink Sigh Sign Silly Sin Sinful Sinfulness Sloth Snatch Solicit Solicitor Sound Speaker Spell Sphere Spring Spur Square Stage Stagnation Start Stay Step Stifle Still Stimulant Stimulate Stimulated Stimulating Stimulation Stimulative Stimulus Stir Stirred Stomachical Stop Strain Strength Strengthener Sublimate Subornation Suborned Suborner Suborning Substance Such Sue Suffer Suit Summon Suscitate Suspending Suspiciousness Sustain Sustainable Symbolic Syncopy Tackle Tackling Talc Taste Tax Tense Theatre Their Theology These Thing Threaten Throb Tongued Top-chain Torrefied Tragedy Tragi-comedy Transitive Transitory Trover Truce Tung Turn Turpitude Tye Ultimate Unactive Unconformable Unconstrained Undeeded Underaction Unexerted Unguarded Uninfluenced Unity Unjustifiable Unskillfulness Unstimulating Up Usage Valiant Vantage Varvels Vehemence Ventilated Ventilating Verb Vice Vigorousness Villain Villainy Violence Virtue Virtuous Visne Vitrify Volatileness Volatilize Volcanize Voltaism Voluntary Vomiting Wake Waken Wakened Wakening Waking Warm Weak Wicked Will Wind Windy Withhold Within Work Worldly Wring Writ Wrong-doing
Abandoning Ablative About Above Abrade Abrood Abstinence Abstract Acceleration Accident Account Accountability Accusative Achievement Act Acting Action Actionable Actionary Actionist Active Actively Activity Actual Actuate Actuated Actuating Actuation Adjudication Adorn Advisement Advocation Affront Affronted Afoot Agency Agent Agitate Agitation Air Alive Allurement Alluvium Alternacy Analyze Animosity Antagonism Antimetabole Antipathy Antiperistasis Antiphlogistic Antistasis Ape Apologue Apoplexy Appetence Applaud Approbation Aptitude Areopagus Arouse Aroused Arousing Arrest Art Arterial Ashamed Assignment Associate Assumpsit Atilt Attachment Attenuation Attitude Attorney Auditor Authority Automatic Auxiliar Avow Avowry Awake Awork Aworking Backwardness Bad Bailpiece Ballet Banter Bar Bardesanists Barricade Basking Battalia Battery Bay-salt Behavior Beneficent Bestir Bestirred Bestirring Betake Between Beyond Biographer Blandish Blandishment Blank Blister Boarder Boast Boastful Boasting Boil Boiled Bout Bowlder Bowlder-wall Boy Brag Breath Breathe Breathless Brief Brine-pan Bring Briskness Broil Brutism Buckle Burn Burnt Burst Business Calcinable Calcine Calefaction Call Calumniation Campain Candidate Carbonize Cardiac Career Carp Case Cast Catch Category Causality Cause Cessation Champ Champing Chancery Charitable Charity Chief Chili Chimistry Chose Chyme Ciceronian Ciceronianism Circumstance Clear Climax Close Coefficient Cognizable Cognizance Cognizee Cold Collect Collusion Combustibility Combustibleness Come Commence Comment Common Comparison Compile Complicate Concomitance Concur Concurring Condignity Conducive Conduct Confinement Conflict Congruity Connection Conscience Consciously Consecutive Consequence Consideration Constrain Constraint Contingency Contract Convulse Copple-stones Cordial Correspond Corrosion Costume Counteraction Counterwrought Course Cowardly Cramp Cross Cross-bar-shot Cumbrance Cumbrous Curiosity Cut Damp Dead Deaden Dealing Death Debt Decency Decent Deed Default Deforciant Demand Demandant Denominate Denomination Descant Deserve Desire Despond Device Dexterity Diabolic Diabolical Diabolism Digestion Dignity Disable Discovery Disdain Disease Disembark Disgrace Disintegrated Disparage Dispute Distinction Doings Dormant Double-plea Drama Dramatic Dramatical Draw Drive Drunk Edge Edict Ejectment Elbow-room Elegance Element Eloquence Emergent Emulate Emulation Encouragement Encourager End Energy Engagement Enkindle Enkindled Enliven Enter Entire Epic Episode Epispastic Epopee Ethics Etiolation Evangelist Event Excel Exception Excitability Excitable Excitant Excite Excitement Exciting Excoriate Excusable Exercise Exert Exerted Exerting Exertion Exhibition Exhort Exigence Exit Expression Faculty Fame Farce Fashion Febrile Fee Field Fire Fit Flagitious Fleshbrush Flow Foot For Forbear Forbearance Forbearing Force Foreadvise Freckle Freewill Frequentative From Fry Function Galvanism Genius Gest Gesticulation Gesture Gist Good Gospel Govern Government Gracefulness Ground Hand Hastiness Heat Heating Heroic Hesitate Hesitation Highway Hinder History History-piece Homage Honor Hostility Humorist Hurried Hydroxanthic Idle Illustrious Imitate Immanacle Immoral Imparlance Impel Imperfect Imprudence Imprudent Impure Impute Inaction Inactivity Inactuate Incentive Inceptive Incident Incitant Incitation Incite Incited Incitement Inciter Inciting Inconvenience Inculcation Incumbrance Indecency Indecorous Indecorum Indefensible Indignant Indignity Indisposition Indolently Inert Inertion Inertness Inexertion Infamousness Infinitive Inflame Inflammatory Inhumanity Innocent Insolating Insolation Instinct Insult Intemperance Internal Intonation Intransitive Intrigue Intrinsic Introduction Intromission Intrusion Intumescence Inturgescence Inunction Inustion Invention Investigation Investiture Investment Invigoration Involution Irregular Irritable Irritate Irritation Irritative Jaculation Jest Joke Jurisdiction Keep Kill Kindle Kindled Kindling Languid Lassitude Latent Latitude Laudable Laudableness Law Lawfulness Laziness Lazy Lead Leaden Lean Level Lewd Libel Liberally Liberty Lie Liplabor Lively Living Local Lorication Magic Materially Mean Mechanic Mechanism Medal Mischaracterize Misconstruction Misconstrue Misdeed Mockery Mode Moderate Mood Moral Morality Morally Mortification Mortify Motion Motive Move Mover Mucus Narration Natural Nature Necessity Neuter Nonsuit Novel Obloquy Obsceneness Obtund Of Off Operate Operation Operative Opinion Ordinance Organ Organic Organization Organizing Orgasm Ousel Overdo Overpower Palmistry Palpitation Panegyric Pantomime Pantomimic Parade Paralize Part Passion Passive Pastoral Pattern Pause Perfective Performance Periodic Perpetration Perpetual Personal Personate Personify Phlegmatic Phlogiston Phosgene Pique Plaint Platinum Play Plea Poison Polarization Pole-ax Pooping Popular Possessory Possible Post Posture Potential Practical Practice Praise Praiseworthy Prank Precedence Precept Predetermination Predicament Premotion Preposition Present Pretend Pretense Pretension Preterimperfect Preterit Preterperfect Preterpluperfect Principle Privy Probity Procede Procedure Proceeding Process Procinct Profaner Prohibition Prompt Prompted Prompter Prompting Promptitude Promptness Propel Propound Prosecute Prostration Prothonotary Provoke Provoking Prudence Prudent Puerility Pumice Purpuric Push Put Quality Quantum Quarrel Quarter Quick Quit Quite Quixotism Raise Ranging Rash Rationale React Reaction Ready Real Reanimated Rebutter Recitative Recovery Redisseizor Reflect Reflex Refrain Remembrancer Rencounter Repeat Replevin Represent Reproach Requital Research Reserve Reserved Respect Rest Restif Restrain Restraining Restraint Retire Retraxit Retribution Retroaction Retroactive Retroactively Revive Reviviscent Rheum Rich Right Rise Romance Round Rouse Roused Rousing Rub Rule Ruling Sail Sailing Salutation Scan Scandalize Scant Scene Scenery Scratchingly Scripture Sea-fight Sedative Sedentarily See Self Self-moving Selfish Selfishly Sense Sequester Serviceableness Set Shackle Shackles Shame Show Shrink Sigh Sign Silly Sin Sinful Sinfulness Sloth Snatch Solicit Solicitor Sound Speaker Spell Sphere Spring Spur Square Stage Stagnation Start Stay Step Stifle Still Stimulant Stimulate Stimulated Stimulating Stimulation Stimulative Stimulus Stir Stirred Stomachical Stop Strain Strength Strengthener Sublimate Subornation Suborned Suborner Suborning Substance Such Sue Suffer Suit Summon Suscitate Suspending Suspiciousness Sustain Sustainable Symbolic Syncopy Tackle Tackling Talc Taste Tax Tense Theatre Their Theology These Thing Threaten Throb Tongued Top-chain Torrefied Tragedy Tragi-comedy Transitive Transitory Trover Truce Tung Turn Turpitude Tye Ultimate Unactive Unconformable Unconstrained Undeeded Underaction Unexerted Unguarded Uninfluenced Unity Unjustifiable Unskillfulness Unstimulating Up Usage Valiant Vantage Varvels Vehemence Ventilated Ventilating Verb Vice Vigorousness Villain Villainy Violence Virtue Virtuous Visne Vitrify Volatileness Volatilize Volcanize Voltaism Voluntary Vomiting Wake Waken Wakened Wakening Waking Warm Weak Wicked Will Wind Windy Withhold Within Work Worldly Wring Writ Wrong-doing
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