action
noun (plural actions)
- Something done so as to accomplish a purpose.
- A way of motion or functioning.
Knead bread with a rocking action.
- A fast-paced activity.
an action movie
- A mechanism; a moving part or assembly.
a rifle action
- (music): The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano, which transfers the motion of the key to the sound-making device.
- (slang) sexual intercourse.
She gave him some action.
- The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on the guitar.
- (military) Combat.
He saw some action in the Korean War.
- (legal) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
- (mathematics) A homomorphism from a group to a group of automorphisms.
One of the earliest uses of groups, according to lore, was the study of the action of on the equilateral triangle.
- The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, po
noun (plural actions)
- Something done so as to accomplish a purpose.
- A way of motion or functioning.
Knead bread with a rocking action.
- A fast-paced activity.
an action movie
- A mechanism; a moving part or assembly.
a rifle action
- (music): The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano, which transfers the motion of the key to the sound-making device.
- (slang) sexual intercourse.
She gave him some action.
- The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on the guitar.
- (military) Combat.
He saw some action in the Korean War.
- (legal) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
- (mathematics) A homomorphism from a group to a group of automorphisms.
One of the earliest uses of groups, according to lore, was the study of the action of on the equilateral triangle.
- The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, po
