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action
Overview of noun action
The noun action has 10 senses (first 9 from tagged texts)
1. (632) action -- (something done (usually as opposed to something said); "there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions")
2. (168) action, activity, activeness -- (the state of being active; "his sphere of activity"; "he is out of action")
3. (55) legal action, action, action at law -- (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)
4. (49) action -- (an act by a government body or supranational organization; "recent federal action undermined the segregationist position"; "the United Nations must have the power to propose and organize action without being hobbled by irrelevant issues"; "the Union action of emancipating Southern slaves")
5. (49) military action, action -- (a military engagement; "he saw action in Korea")
6. (43) natural process, natural action, action, activity -- (a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings); "the action of natural forces"; "volcanic activity")
7. (33) action -- (the series of events that form a plot; "his novels always have a lot of action")
8. (19) action, action mechanism -- (the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism; "the piano had a very stiff action")
9. (7) action -- (the trait of being active and energetic and forceful; "a man of action")
10. action -- (the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field; "the action is no longer in technology stocks but in municipal bonds"; "gawkers always try to get as close to the action as possible")
Overview of verb action
The verb action has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. action, sue, litigate, process -- (institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against; "He was warned that the district attorney would process him"; "She actioned the company for discrimination")
2. carry through, accomplish, execute, carry out, action, fulfill, fulfil -- (put in effect; "carry out a task"; "execute the decision of the people"; "He actioned the operation")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun action
10 senses of action
Sense 1
action
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
action, activity, activeness
=> state
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
legal action, action, action at law
=> proceeding, legal proceeding, proceedings
=> due process, due process of law
=> group action
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 4
action
=> group action
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 5
military action, action
=> group action
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 6
natural process, natural action, action, activity
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 7
action
=> plot
=> story
=> fiction
=> literary composition, literary work
=> writing, written material, piece of writing
=> written communication, written language
=> communication
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 8
action, action mechanism
=> mechanism
=> device
=> instrumentality, instrumentation
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
=> object, physical object
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 9
action
=> drive
=> trait
=> attribute
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 10
action
=> work
=> activity
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun action
6 of 10 senses of action
Sense 1
action
=> thing
=> kindness, benignity
=> accomplishment, achievement
=> alienation
=> res gestae
=> course, course of action
=> interaction
=> fetch
=> playing
=> play, swordplay
=> arrival
=> performance, execution, carrying out, carrying into action
=> choice, selection, option, pick
=> change
=> economy, saving
=> prohibition, inhibition, forbiddance
=> resistance, opposition
=> bruxism
=> transfusion
=> pickings, taking
=> transgression
=> aggression, hostility
=> destabilization, destabilisation
=> employment, engagement
=> reference, consultation
=> emphasizing, accenting, accentuation
=> beatification
=> jumpstart, jump-start
=> stupefaction
=> vampirism
Sense 2
action, activity, activeness
=> agency
=> busyness, hum
=> behavior, behaviour
=> eruption, eructation, extravasation
=> operation
=> overdrive
=> play
=> swing
Sense 3
legal action, action, action at law
=> antitrust case
=> civil action
=> counterclaim
=> custody case
=> lis pendens
=> prosecution, criminal prosecution
=> test case, test suit
Sense 5
military action, action
=> amphibious landing
=> battle, conflict, fight, engagement
=> blockade, encirclement
=> defense, defence, defensive measure
=> electronic warfare, EW
=> police action
=> resistance
=> saber rattling, sabre rattling
=> sortie, sally
=> war, warfare
Sense 6
natural process, natural action, action, activity
=> radiation
=> absorption
=> acidification
=> adiabatic process
=> aeration
=> antiredeposition
=> capture
=> capture
=> centrifugation
=> chemical process, chemical change, chemical action
=> chromatography
=> concretion
=> condensation
=> convection
=> curdling, clotting, coagulation
=> decay
=> demagnetization, demagnetisation
=> desorption
=> diffusion
=> dissolution, disintegration
=> distillation, distillment
=> drift
=> effervescence
=> electrophoresis, cataphoresis, dielectrolysis, ionophoresis
=> establishment, ecesis
=> extinction
=> extraction
=> feedback
=> filtration
=> flocculation
=> flow
=> formation
=> fossilization, fossilisation
=> geological process, geologic process
=> hardening, solidifying, solidification, set, curing
=> inactivation
=> ion exchange
=> ionization, ionisation
=> leach, leaching
=> magnetization, magnetisation, magnetic induction
=> materialization, materialisation
=> nuclear reaction
=> opacification
=> oscillation
=> oxygenation
=> pair production, pair creation, pair formation
=> phase change, phase transition, state change, physical change
=> precession of the equinoxes
=> release
=> saltation
=> scattering
=> sericulture
=> sink
=> soak, soakage, soaking
=> softening
=> sorption
=> source
=> stiffening, rigidifying, rigidification
=> stimulation
=> succession, ecological succession
=> survival, survival of the fittest, natural selection, selection
=> synergy, synergism
=> temperature change
=> transduction
=> transpiration
=> vitrification
Sense 8
action, action mechanism
=> gunlock, firing mechanism
=> movement
=> piano action
=> pump action, slide action
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun action
10 senses of action
Sense 1
action
=> act, human action, human activity
Sense 2
action, activity, activeness
=> state
Sense 3
legal action, action, action at law
=> proceeding, legal proceeding, proceedings
Sense 4
action
=> group action
Sense 5
military action, action
=> group action
Sense 6
natural process, natural action, action, activity
=> process, physical process
Sense 7
action
=> plot
Sense 8
action, action mechanism
=> mechanism
Sense 9
action
=> drive
Sense 10
action
=> work
Antonyms of noun action
1 of 10 senses of action
Sense 2
action, activity, activeness
Antonym of inaction (Sense 1)
=>inaction, inactivity, inactiveness
Member Holonyms of noun action
Substance Holonyms of noun action
Part Holonyms of noun action
1 of 10 senses of action
Sense 8
action, action mechanism
PART OF: gun
PART OF: keyboard
Member Meronyms of noun action
Substance Meronyms of noun action
Part Meronyms of noun action
1 of 10 senses of action
Sense 8
action, action mechanism
HAS PART: key
Meronyms of noun action
1 of 10 senses of action
Sense 8
action, action mechanism
HAS PART: key
Holonyms of noun action
1 of 10 senses of action
Sense 8
action, action mechanism
PART OF: gun
PART OF: keyboard
Attributes of noun action
1 of 10 senses of action
Sense 2
action, activity, activeness
=> active (vs. dormant)
Derived Forms of noun action
3 of 10 senses of action
Sense 1
action
RELATED TO>(verb) act#1
=> act, move
Sense 2
action, activity, activeness
RELATED TO>(verb) act#8
=> act
RELATED TO>(verb) act#1
=> act, move
Sense 3
legal action, action, action at law
RELATED TO>(verb) action#1
=> action, sue, litigate, process
Domain of noun action
2 of 10 senses of action
Sense 3
legal action, action, action at law
TOPIC>(noun) law#2, jurisprudence#2
Sense 5
military action, action
TOPIC>(noun) military#1, armed forces#1, armed services#1, military machine#1, war machine#1
Domain Terms of noun action
Familiarity of noun action
action used as a noun is familiar (polysemy count =10)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun action
10 senses of action
Sense 1
action
> act, human action, human activity
=> action
=> nonaccomplishment, nonachievement
=> leaning
=> motivation, motivating
=> assumption
=> rejection
=> forfeit, forfeiture, sacrifice
=> derivation
=> activity
=> hire
=> wear, wearing
=> judgment, judgement, assessment
=> production
=> stay
=> residency, residence, abidance
=> inactivity
=> hindrance, hinderance, interference
=> stop, stoppage
=> group action
=> distribution
=> legitimation
=> waste, permissive waste
=> proclamation, promulgation
=> communication, communicating
=> speech act
Sense 2
action, activity, activeness
> state
=> feeling
=> skillfulness
=> cognitive state, state of mind
=> cleavage
=> medium
=> ornamentation
=> condition
=> condition, status
=> conditionality
=> ground state
=> nationhood
=> situation, state of affairs
=> relationship
=> relationship
=> tribalism
=> utopia
=> dystopia
=> wild, natural state, state of nature
=> isomerism
=> degree, level, stage, point
=> office, power
=> status, position
=> being, beingness, existence
=> nonbeing
=> death
=> employment, employ
=> unemployment
=> order
=> disorder
=> hostility, enmity, antagonism
=> conflict
=> illumination
=> freedom
=> representation, delegacy, agency
=> dependence, dependance, dependency
=> motion
=> motionlessness, stillness, lifelessness
=> dead letter, non-issue
=> action, activity, activeness
=> inaction, inactivity, inactiveness
=> temporary state
=> imminence, imminency, imminentness, impendence, impendency, forthcomingness
=> readiness, preparedness, preparation
=> flux, state of flux
=> physiological state, physiological condition
=> kalemia
=> enlargement
=> separation
=> union, unification
=> maturity, matureness
=> immaturity, immatureness
=> grace, saving grace, state of grace
=> damnation, eternal damnation
=> omniscience
=> omnipotence
=> perfection, flawlessness, ne plus ultra
=> integrity, unity, wholeness
=> imperfection, imperfectness
=> receivership
=> ownership
=> obligation
=> end, destruction, death
=> revocation, annulment
=> merchantability
=> turgor
=> homozygosity
=> heterozygosity
=> neotony
=> plurality
=> polyvalence, polyvalency
=> polyvalence, polyvalency, multivalence, multivalency
=> paternity
=> utilization
Sense 3
legal action, action, action at law
> proceeding, legal proceeding, proceedings
=> foreclosure
=> intervention
=> procedure
=> legal action, action, action at law
=> lawsuit, suit, case, cause, causa
=> adoption
=> appeal
=> bankruptcy
=> receivership
=> litigation, judicial proceeding
=> naturalization, naturalisation
=> trial
=> trial
=> review
=> hearing
Sense 4
action
> group action
=> vote
=> procession
=> military action, action
=> conflict, struggle, battle
=> revolution
=> social activity
=> communalism
=> confederation, alliance
=> decolonization, decolonisation
=> disbandment
=> disestablishment
=> transaction, dealing, dealings
=> stampede
=> social control
=> coup d'etat, coup, putsch, takeover
=> internationalization, internationalisation
=> nationalization, nationalisation
=> exchange
=> rally, exchange
=> submission, compliance
=> competition, contention, rivalry
=> resistance
=> nonresistance
=> due process, due process of law
=> action
=> legalization, legalisation, legitimation
=> separation
=> integration, integrating, desegregation
=> cooperation
=> brainstorming
=> assembly, assemblage, gathering
=> attendance, attending
=> nonattendance
=> return, paying back, getting even
=> democratization, democratisation
=> engagement, participation, involvement, involution
=> non-engagement, nonparticipation, non-involvement
=> ethnic cleansing
=> socialization, socialisation
HAS INSTANCE=> Restoration
Sense 5
military action, action
> group action
=> vote
=> procession
=> military action, action
=> conflict, struggle, battle
=> revolution
=> social activity
=> communalism
=> confederation, alliance
=> decolonization, decolonisation
=> disbandment
=> disestablishment
=> transaction, dealing, dealings
=> stampede
=> social control
=> coup d'etat, coup, putsch, takeover
=> internationalization, internationalisation
=> nationalization, nationalisation
=> exchange
=> rally, exchange
=> submission, compliance
=> competition, contention, rivalry
=> resistance
=> nonresistance
=> due process, due process of law
=> action
=> legalization, legalisation, legitimation
=> separation
=> integration, integrating, desegregation
=> cooperation
=> brainstorming
=> assembly, assemblage, gathering
=> attendance, attending
=> nonattendance
=> return, paying back, getting even
=> democratization, democratisation
=> engagement, participation, involvement, involution
=> non-engagement, nonparticipation, non-involvement
=> ethnic cleansing
=> socialization, socialisation
HAS INSTANCE=> Restoration
Sense 6
natural process, natural action, action, activity
> process, physical process
=> phenomenon
=> chelation
=> dealignment
=> decrease, decrement
=> degeneration, devolution
=> development, evolution
=> economic process
=> encapsulation
=> execution, instruction execution
=> human process
=> increase, increment, growth
=> industrial process
=> irreversible process
=> iteration, looping
=> iteration, loop
=> natural process, natural action, action, activity
=> operation, functioning, performance
=> organic process, biological process
=> photography
=> processing
=> reversible process
=> sensitization, sensitisation
=> shaping, defining
=> variation
Sense 7
action
> plot
=> action
=> storyline, plot line
Sense 8
action, action mechanism
> mechanism
=> action, action mechanism
=> actuator
=> automaton, robot, golem
=> axis, axis of rotation
=> carriage
=> cartridge ejector, ejector
=> cartridge extractor, cartridge remover, extractor
=> clockwork
=> control, controller
=> cooling system, cooling
=> delayed action
=> drive
=> drive line, drive line system
=> fail-safe
=> film advance
=> gear, gear mechanism
=> homing device
=> hydraulic system
=> ignition, ignition system
=> lock
=> mechanical device
=> radiator
=> rotating mechanism
=> steering linkage
=> steering system, steering mechanism
=> tape drive, tape transport, transport
=> whirler
=> works, workings
Sense 9
action
> drive
=> action
=> enterprise, enterprisingness, initiative, go-ahead
=> ambition, ambitiousness
=> energy, push, get-up-and-go
=> aggressiveness
Sense 10
action
> work
=> wash, washing, lavation
=> action
=> job
=> job
=> operation, procedure
=> service
=> shining, polishing
=> heavy lifting
=> housewifery
=> housework, housekeeping
=> ironing
=> busywork, make-work
=> logging
=> loose end, unfinished business
=> nightwork
=> paperwork
=> welfare work, social service
=> labor, labour, toil
=> subbing, substituting
=> investigation, investigating
=> care, attention, aid, tending
=> duty
=> mission, missionary work
=> spadework
=> timework
=> undertaking, project, task, labor
=> coursework
Meronyms of noun action
10 senses of action
Sense 7
action
=> plot
=> story
HAS PART: climax, culmination
HAS PART: anticlimax, bathos
=> fiction
=> literary composition, literary work
=> writing, written material, piece of writing
HAS PART: epilogue, epilog
=> written communication, written language
HAS PART: leaf, folio
Sense 8
action, action mechanism
HAS PART: key
=> mechanism
=> device
=> instrumentality, instrumentation
=> artifact, artefact
=> whole, unit
HAS PART: part, portion
HAS PART: section, segment
Holonyms of noun action
1 of 10 senses of action
Sense 8
action, action mechanism
PART OF: gun
PART OF: keyboard
PART OF: piano, pianoforte, forte-piano
PART OF: organ, pipe organ
PART OF: typewriter
PART OF: computer, computing machine, computing device, data processor, electronic computer, information processing system
PART OF: platform
PART OF: terminal
PART OF: typesetting machine
Grep of noun action
abreaction
abstraction
accord and satisfaction
action
action at law
action mechanism
action officer
action painting
action plant
action potential
action replay
action spectrum
addition reaction
affirmative action
aldol reaction
allergic reaction
anamnestic reaction
angle of refraction
anxiety reaction
attraction
benefaction
braxton-hicks contraction
calefaction
capillary action
carrying into action
cause of action
chain reaction
chemical action
chemical attraction
chemical decomposition reaction
chemical reaction
civil action
class-action suit
class action
coaction
coming attraction
common fraction
compaction
complex fraction
compound fraction
conditional reaction
conditioned reaction
contact action
continued fraction
contraction
conversion reaction
counteraction
counterattraction
course of action
decimal fraction
decomposition reaction
defence reaction
defense reaction
delayed action
detraction
diffraction
direct action
displacement reaction
dissatisfaction
distraction
double decomposition reaction
double refraction
double replacement reaction
electromagnetic interaction
elimination reaction
endoergic reaction
endothermic reaction
evasive action
exaction
exoergic reaction
exothermic reaction
extraction
faction
fecal impaction
fraction
fundamental interaction
gravitational attraction
gravitational interaction
group action
human action
hypersensitivity reaction
immune reaction
impaction
impossible action
improper fraction
inaction
index of refraction
infraction
insulin reaction
interaction
job action
lautaro faction of the united popular action movement
law of action and reaction
law of mass action
learned reaction
legal action
light reaction
liquefaction
magnetic attraction
man of action
mass-action principle
mass action
military action
mineral extraction
molisch reaction
muscle contraction
muscular contraction
natural action
neutralisation reaction
neutralization reaction
nuclear fusion reaction
nuclear reaction
olfaction
overreaction
party to the action
party to the transaction
petrifaction
photochemical reaction
physical attraction
physiological reaction
piano action
plan of action
police action
political action committee
possible action
premature ventricular contraction
pro-choice faction
pro-life faction
proper fraction
protraction
pump action
putrefaction
quellung reaction
rarefaction
reaction
red army faction
redaction
refraction
retraction
right of action
satisfaction
scene of action
self-satisfaction
semi-abstraction
simple fraction
slide action
social action
startle reaction
strong interaction
stupefaction
subtraction
thermonuclear reaction
traction
transaction
transfusion reaction
tumefaction
type i allergic reaction
type iv allergic reaction
uterine contraction
wasserman reaction
weak interaction
x-ray diffraction
Antonyms of verb action
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb action
2 senses of action
Sense 1
action, sue, litigate, process
=> challenge
=> invite, bid
=> request
=> ask
=> request, bespeak, call for, quest
=> communicate, pass on, pass, pass along, put across
=> convey, transmit, communicate
=> transfer
=> move, displace
Sense 2
carry through, accomplish, execute, carry out, action, fulfill, fulfil
=> complete, finish
=> end, terminate
=> change, alter, modify
=> effect, effectuate, set up
=> cause, do, make
=> make, create
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb action
2 senses of action
Sense 1
action, sue, litigate, process
=> expedite
Sense 2
carry through, accomplish, execute, carry out, action, fulfill, fulfil
=> get over
=> run
=> consummate
=> consummate
=> do, perform
=> dispatch, discharge, complete
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb action
2 senses of action
Sense 1
action, sue, litigate, process
=> challenge
Sense 2
carry through, accomplish, execute, carry out, action, fulfill, fulfil
=> complete, finish
=> effect, effectuate, set up
'Cause To' of verb action
Derived Forms of verb action
1 of 2 senses of action
Sense 1
action, sue, litigate, process
RELATED TO>(adj) actionable#1
=> actionable
RELATED TO>(noun) action#3
=> legal action, action, action at law
Domain of verb action
Domain Terms of verb action
Familiarity of verb action
action used as a verb is rare (polysemy count =2)
Sample Sentences of verb action
2 senses of action
Sense 1
action, sue, litigate, process
*> Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 2
carry through, accomplish, execute, carry out, action, fulfill, fulfil
*> Somebody ----s something
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb action
2 senses of action
Sense 1
action, sue, litigate, process
> challenge
=> provoke, stimulate
=> counterchallenge
=> question, oppugn, call into question
=> impeach
=> impugn
=> defy, dare
=> call one's bluff
=> call out
=> remit, remand, send back
=> appeal
=> action, sue, litigate, process
=> litigate
Sense 2
carry through, accomplish, execute, carry out, action, fulfill, fulfil
> complete, finish
=> close
=> top, top off
=> get through, wrap up, finish off, mop up, polish off, clear up, finish up
=> see through
=> round out, finish out
=> follow through, follow up, follow out, carry out, implement, put through, go through
=> carry through, accomplish, execute, carry out, action, fulfill, fulfil
> effect, effectuate, set up
=> carry through, accomplish, execute, carry out, action, fulfill, fulfil
=> draw, get
=> precipitate
=> induce, stimulate, rush, hasten
=> serve
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb action
Sense 1
action, sue, litigate, process
=> challenge
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Sense 2
carry through, accomplish, execute, carry out, action, fulfill, fulfil
=> complete, finish
=> effect, effectuate, set up
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Grep of verb action
action
fraction
Grep of adj action
actionable
delayed-action
out of action
Grep of adv action
in full action
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