action
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[ˈæk.ʃən] [-ækʃən] 
US WAction
- Action may refer to:
- Action (philosophy)
- Action (physics), an attribute of the development of a system over a period of time
- Action (fiction), a term or art in fiction
- Action film, a genre of film
- Action game, a genre of video game
FR action 
- NounPLactionsSUF-tion
- 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.
- SLA 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.
- (law) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
- (mathematics) A mapping from a pairing of mathematical objects to one of them, respecting their individual structures. The pairing is typically a Cartesian product or a tensor product. The object that is not part of the output is said to act on the other object. In any given context, action is used as an abbreviation for a more fully named notion, like group action or left group action.
- 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.
- (art, painting and sculpture) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.
- (bowling) spin put on the bowling ball.
- (business, obsolete, a Gallicism) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds.
- Something done so as to accomplish a purpose.
- VerbSGactionsPRactioningPT, PPactioned
- VT (management) To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.
- ‘Here, give me the minutes of Monday’s meeting. I’ll action your points for you while you get on and sort out the open day.’
- VT (chiefly archaic) To initiate a legal action against someone.
- ‘I have no business to settle with you—arrest me, Sir, at your peril and I’ll action you in law for false imprisonment.’
- VT (management) To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.
- Interjection
- Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually an act or scene of a theatric performance.
- The director yelled ‘Action!’ before the camera started rolling.
- Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually an act or scene of a theatric performance.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Simulating others’ actions in our own motor system might help to coordinate the actions using the same mechanisms that exist for interlimb coordination.
- With lust for action as its only through line, Amelia's posterlike life runs in a straight line from nonflight to flight to death.
- There is the absolute essentiability of collective action if we are to conserve the industry and temper this competition, which means the ruination of industry, if we are going to survive.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Action groups are crying out against plans to build on the woodland area.
- Action potentials were recorded from the midmyocardial region at different pacing rates (4000, 2000, 1000, 500, 333 and 250 ms BCL) using floating microelectrodes (Fig 9 ).
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Train services will be retimed tomorrow because of strike action.
- When news of his wife's murder spread around the media, he found himself in front of a press conference explaining his actions.
- Debate on the Kellogg Mar renunciation treaty dragged on in the senate today with no immediate prospect of final action.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of action in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Interjections
- Morphemes
- Suffixes
- Words by suffix
- Words suffixed with -tion
- Words suffixed with -tion
- Words by suffix
- Suffixes
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Interjections
- fr action
- en actions
- fr actions
- en actionable
- en actiony
Source: Wiktionary
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Grammatically, this word "action" is an interjection. It's also a morpheme, more specifically, a suffixe. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.