Action is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ACTION in dictionary:

VERB:
• to carry out
• institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against
• put in effect
• put into effect
NOUN:
• activity, a deed
• the way in which something such as a chemical has an effect or influence
• the events represented in a story or play
• exciting or notable activity
• used by a film director as a command to begin
• a gesture or movement
• the mechanism that makes a machine or instrument work
• a military engagement
• the fact or process of doing something, typically to achieve an aim
• a thing done; an act
• the way in which something works or moves
• armed conflict
• legal proceedings; a lawsuit
• take action on; deal with
• A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of power exerted on one body by another; agency; activity; operation; as, the action of heat; a man of action.
• An act; a thing done; a deed; an enterprise. (pl.): Habitual deeds; hence, conduct; behavior; demeanor.
• The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.
• Movement; as, the horse has a spirited action.
• Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun.
• Any one of the active processes going on in an organism; the performance of a function; as, the action of the heart, the muscles, or the gastric juice.
• Gesticulation; the external deportment of the speaker, or the suiting of his attitude, voice, gestures, and countenance, to the subject, or to the feelings.
• The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.
• A suit or process, by which a demand is made of a right in a court of justice; in a broad sense, a judicial proceeding for the enforcement or protection of a right, the redress or prevention of a wrong, or the punishment of a public offense.
• A right of action; as, the law gives an action for every claim.
• A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds; hence, in the plural, equivalent to stocks.
• An engagement between troops in war, whether on land or water; a battle; a fight; as, a general action, a partial action.
• 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.
• something done (usually as opposed to something said)
• the state of being active
• a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)
• the series of events that form a plot
• the trait of being active and energetic and forceful
• the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism
• 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
• an act by a government body or supranational organization
• the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field
• process of doing something
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to bring a lawsuit against

Words related to ACTION

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Words that contain ACTION

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How to use ACTION in a sentence

• MEREDYTH-KITSON called the attention of the London School Board to the action of Mr.
• The defects in the law upon this subject are so apparent and so fatal to the ends of justice that your early action relating to it is most desirable.
• His life has been full of action, incident, and interest.
• She resents this action, and in a struggle which ensues the sergeant falls to the floor.
• I was conscious of the unbecoming action I had committed, and this rendered me humble.
• Hefner von Alteneck, Shuckert, Brush, Edison, and several others who have improved the direct action machine, have not been found in England.
• As for the dispossessed stock-holders in the far-away East, they were slow to take the alarm, and still slower to get concerted action.
• It must have been subjected to the action of some destructive vapor or gas, fatal not only to breathe, but to come in contact with.
• Every hour wasted in delay meant, as he knew, the sacrifice of many lives, and there were other, more sordid and more practical, reasons for speedy action.
• The strongest reason for urging this was to preserve unanimity of action among the prisoners.
• Hence there is no reality in human action and no place for right and wrong.
• Yet, if aloof from strenuous action, Burne-Jones was singularly strenuous in production.
• Even a succession of short sentences may be used with good results to describe rapid action.
• This disastrous action lasted half an hour, and on mustering our force after we got back to the ships, we found we had lost fifty-seven men.
• Sundry treaties have been negotiated, which will in due time be submitted for the constitutional action of the Senate.
• Our firm seems to have wisely kept the action open by paying the term-fee.
• Quick and fast flew my thoughts in the startled endeavor to grasp some plan of action.
• There exists a perpetual action and reaction in the history of the human mind.
• With a snapping action of his wrist he had seemed to literally fling the shots at the retreating dogs.
• These and other considerations would doubtless have a restraining effect on the action that might have been taken under different circumstances.
• From that Peter already believed himself in love with her, because she had not resented his action.
• In the year 1798, Captain Newman distinguished himself by a most gallant action which he fought off the coast of Ireland.

Similar words containing AC without suffix tion

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