Definition of action

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Action (n.) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds; hence, in the plural, equivalent to stocks..

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Fumify :: Fumify (v. t.) To subject to the action of smoke.
Nephrotomy :: Nephrotomy (n.) Extraction of stone from the kidney by cutting.
Carbonometer :: Carbonometer (n.) An instrument for detecting and measuring the amount of carbon which is present, or more esp. the amount of carbon dioxide, by its action on limewater or by other means..
Volcanism :: Volcanism (n.) Volcanic power or action; volcanicity.
Tonic :: Tonic (n.) A medicine that increases the strength, and gives vigor of action to the system..
Homage :: Homage (v. t.) To pay reverence to by external action.
Bout :: Bout (n.) As much of an action as is performed at one time; a going and returning, as of workmen in reaping, mowing, etc.; a turn; a round..
Dite :: Dite (v. t.) To prepare for action or use; to make ready; to dight.
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..
Humin :: Humin (n.) A bitter, brownish yellow, amorphous substance, extracted from vegetable mold, and also produced by the action of acids on certain sugars and carbohydrates; -- called also humic acid, ulmin, gein, ulmic or geic acid, etc..
Numerator :: Numerator (n.) The term in a fraction which indicates the number of fractional units that are taken.
Charity :: Charity (n.) Liberality in judging of men and their actions; a disposition which inclines men to put the best construction on the words and actions of others.
Hemisystole :: Hemisystole (n.) Contraction of only one ventricle of the heart.
Reason :: Reason (n.) A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an action; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation; the efficient cause of an occurrence or a phenomenon; a motive for an action or a determination; proof, more or less decisive, for an opinion or a conclusion; principle; efficient cause; final cause; ground of argument..
Dissolution :: Dissolution (n.) The state of being dissolved, or of undergoing liquefaction..
Benthamism :: Benthamism (n.) That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the sufficient explanation of ethical and jural conceptions..
Restore :: Restore (v. t.) To give in place of, or as satisfaction for..
Distraction :: Distraction (n.) State in which the attention is called in different ways; confusion; perplexity.
Putridity :: Putridity (n.) The quality of being putrid; putrefaction; rottenness.
Wakening :: Wakening (n.) The revival of an action.
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