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

actioned11 actioning12 actionless12 actions9 acture8

Words that contain ACTION

actions9 faction12 paction11 taction9 actioned11 actioner10 coaction12 enaction10 exaction17 factions13 fraction13 inaction10 pactions12 reaction10 tactions10 traction10 actioners11 actioning12 actionist11 coactions13 enactions11 exactions18 factional14 fractions14 impaction15 inactions11 nonaction11 olfaction14 pactional13 pactioned14 proaction13 reactions11 redaction12 subaction13 tractions11 abreaction14 actionable14 actionably17 actionists12 actionless12 arefaction15 attraction12 compaction18 detraction13 extraction19 factionary18 factionist15 fractional15 fractioned16 impactions16 infraction15 nonactions12 olfactions15 overaction15 pactioning15 proactions14 reactional12 redactions13 refraction15 retraction12 subactions14 tractional12 abreactions15 abstraction15 arefactions16 attractions13 benefaction18 calefaction18 compactions19 contraction15 detractions14 diffraction20 distraction14 extractions20 factionally19 factionists16 fractionary19 fractionate16 fractioning17 fractionise16 fractionize25 fractionlet16 hyperaction21 infractions16 interaction13 labefaction18 madefaction19 malefaction18 overactions16 protraction15 rarefaction16 reactionary16 reactionism15 reactionist13 redactional14 refractions16 retractions13 retroaction13 rubefaction18 subtraction15 tabefaction18 tepefaction18 transaction13 tumefaction18 underaction14 abstractions16 assuefaction17 benefactions19 calefactions19 contractions16 diffractions21 distractions15 factionalise17 factionalism19 factionalist17 factionalize26 factionaries17 fractionally20 fractionated18 fractionates17 fractionator17 fractionised18 fractionises17 fractionized27 fractionizes26 fractionlets17 hyperactions22 interactions14 labefactions19 liquefaction26 liquifaction26 madefactions20 malefactions19 overreaction17 petrifaction19 protractions16 putrefaction19 rarefactions17 reactionisms16 reactionists14 retroactions14 rubefactions19 satisfaction17 stupefaction19 substraction16 subtractions16 tabefactions19 tepefactions19 torrefaction17 transactions14 tumefactions19 underactions15 vitrifaction20 abstractional17 assuefactions18 contractional17 counteraction17 factionalised19 factionalises18 factionalisms20 factionalists18 factionalized28 factionalizes27 fractionalise18 fractionalism20 fractionalist18 fractionalize27 fractionating19 fractionation18 fractionators18 fractionising19 fractionizing28 interactional15 liquefactions27 liquifactions27 overreactions18 petrifactions20 photoreaction20 putrefactions20 rarefactional18 reactionaries15 reactionarism17 reactionarist15 satisfactions18 stupefactions20 substractions17 torrefactions18 transactional15 underreaction16 vitrifactions21 abstractionism20 abstractionist18 contractionary21 counteractions18 factionalising20 factionalizing29 fractionalised20 fractionalises19 fractionalisms21 fractionalists19 fractionalized29 fractionalizes28 fractionations19 immunoreaction20 interactionism18 interactionist16 overextraction26 photoreactions21 reactionarisms18 reactionarists16 reactionaryism21 underreactions17 unsatisfaction19 unfractionated20 abstractionisms21 abstractionists19 counterreaction19 dissatisfaction21 fractionalising21 fractionalizing30 fractionisation20 fractionization29 immunoreactions21 interactionisms19 interactionists17 overextractions27 reactionaryisms22 semiabstraction21 transactionally20 unsatisfactions20 overabstraction22 fractionalizati29 semiabstractions22 dissatisfactions22 counterreactions20 fractionalization31 fractionalizations32

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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