Definition of action

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Action (n.) Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun..

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Strictured :: Stricture (n.) A localized morbid contraction of any passage of the body. Cf. Organic stricture, and Spasmodic stricture, under Organic, and Spasmodic..
Play :: Play (n.) Any exercise, or series of actions, intended for amusement or diversion; a game..
-ant :: -ant () A suffix sometimes marking the agent for action; as, merchant, covenant, servant, pleasant, etc. Cf. -ent..
Monument :: Monument (n.) A building, pillar, stone, or the like, erected to preserve the remembrance of a person, event, action, etc.; as, the Washington monument; the Bunker Hill monument. Also, a tomb, with memorial inscriptions..
Melodramatic :: Melodramatic (a.) Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action.
Dissatisfactory :: Dissatisfactory (a.) Causing dissatisfaction; unable to give content; unsatisfactory; displeasing.
Reach :: Reach (n.) The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity..
For :: For (prep.) Indicating the antecedent cause or occasion of an action; the motive or inducement accompanying and prompting to an act or state; the reason of anything; that on account of which a thing is or is done.
Trill :: Trill (n.) The action of the organs in producing such sounds; as, to give a trill to the tongue. d.
Kindle :: Kindle (v. t.) Fig.: To inflame, as the passions; to rouse; to provoke; to excite to action; to heat; to fire; to animate; to incite; as, to kindle anger or wrath; to kindle the flame of love, or love into a flame..
Reenaction :: Reenaction (n.) The act of reenacting; the state of being reenacted.
Constraint :: Constraint (n.) The act of constraining, or the state of being constrained; that which compels to, or restrains from, action; compulsion; restraint; necessity..
Heat :: Heat (v. t.) To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
Foam :: Foam (n.) To form foam, or become filled with foam; -- said of a steam boiler when the water is unduly agitated and frothy, as because of chemical action..
Performance :: Performance (n.) That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat; esp., an action of an elaborate or public character..
Work :: Work (v. t.) To produce by slow degrees, or as if laboriously; to bring gradually into any state by action or motion..
Operation :: Operation (n.) Any methodical action of the hand, or of the hand with instruments, on the human body, to produce a curative or remedial effect, as in amputation, etc..
Soft :: Soft (superl.) Gentle in action or motion; easy.
Strong-minded :: Strongly (adv.) In a strong manner; so as to be strong in action or in resistance; with strength; with great force; forcibly; powerfully; firmly; vehemently; as, a town strongly fortified; he objected strongly..
Melodiograph :: Melodiograph (n.) A contrivance for preserving a record of music, by recording the action of the keys of a musical instrument when played upon..
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