ACTIONS

Something done (usually as opposed to something said)

Example: "There were stories of murders and other unnatural actions"

• act  5
• deed  6
• human action
• human activity

• thing  9
• exercise  17
• benignity  15
• kindness  13
• • accomplishment  27
  • achievement  21
  • alienation  10
  • application  17
  • res gestae
  • course  8
  • course of action
  • interaction  13
  • fetch  13
  • playing  13
  • play  9
  • swordplay  18
  • arrival  10
  • carrying into action
  • carrying out
  • execution  18
  • performance  20
  • choice  13
  • option  8
  • pick  12
  • selection  11
  • change  12
  • economy  14
  • saving  10
  • forbiddance  20
  • inhibition  15
  • prohibition  18
  • opposition  14
  • resistance  12
  • bruxism  18
  • transfusion  14
  • pickings  17
  • taking  11
  • transgression  14
  • aggression  12
  • hostility  15
  • group action
  • destabilisation  18
  • destabilization  27
  • employment  19
  • engagement  14
  • civility  16
  • politeness  12
  • reverence  14
  • consultation  14
  • reference  14
  • accenting  14
  • accentuation  16
  • emphasizing  28
  • beatification  20
  • jump-start
  • jumpstart
  • stupefaction  19
  • vampirism  18
• Load more...

The state of being active

Example: "His sphere of activity"

• activeness  15
• activity  16

• state  5

• agency  12
• busyness  13
• hum  8
• behavior  16
• • behaviour  17
  • eructation  12
  • eruption  10
  • extravasation  23
  • operation  11
  • overdrive  16
  • play  9
  • swing  9
• Load more...

• inaction  10

A military engagement

Example: "He saw action in korea"

• military action

• group action

• amphibious landing
• battle  8
• conflict  15
• engagement  14
• • fight  12
  • blockade  17
  • encirclement  18
  • defence  13
  • defense  11
  • defensive measure
  • electronic warfare
  • ew
  • police action
  • resistance  12
  • saber rattling
  • sabre rattling
  • sally  8
  • sortie  6
  • war  6
  • warfare  13
• Load more...

A process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)

Example: "The action of natural forces"

• activity  16
• natural action
• natural process

• physical process
• process  11

• radiation  10
• absorption  14
• acidification  21
• adiabatic process
• • aeration  8
  • antiredeposition
  • capture  11
  • capture  11
  • centrifugation  20
  • chemical action
  • chemical change
  • chemical process
  • chromatography  30
  • concretion  14
  • condensation  15
  • convection  17
  • clotting  11
  • coagulation  14
  • curdling  12
  • decay  11
  • demagnetisation  19
  • demagnetization  28
  • desorption  13
  • diffusion  16
  • disintegration  16
  • dissolution  12
  • distillation  13
  • distillment
  • drift  9
  • effervescence  26
  • cataphoresis  19
  • dielectrolysis
  • electrophoresis  22
  • ionophoresis  17
  • ecesis  8
  • establishment  20
  • extinction  19
  • extraction  19
  • feedback  20
  • filtration  13
  • flocculation  19
  • flow  10
  • formation  14
  • fossilisation  16
  • fossilization  25
  • geologic process
  • geological process
  • curing  9
  • hardening  14
  • set  3
  • solidification  20
  • solidifying  19
  • inactivation  17
  • ion exchange
  • ionisation  10
  • ionization  19
  • leach  10
  • leaching  14
  • magnetic induction
  • magnetisation  16
  • magnetization  25
  • materialisation  17
  • materialization  26
  • nuclear reaction
  • opacification
  • oscillation  13
  • oxygenation  22
  • pair creation
  • pair formation
  • pair production
  • phase change
  • phase transition
  • physical change
  • state change
  • precession of the equinoxes
  • release  7
  • saltation  9
  • scattering  13
  • sericulture  13
  • sink  8
  • soak  8
  • soakage  12
  • soaking  12
  • softening  13
  • sorption  10
  • source  8
  • rigidification  21
  • rigidifying  20
  • stiffening  17
  • stimulation  13
  • ecological succession
  • succession  14
  • natural selection
  • selection  11
  • survival  14
  • survival of the fittest
  • synergism  15
  • synergy  14
  • temperature change
  • transduction  15
  • transpiration  15
  • vitrification  21
• Load more...

The series of events that form a plot

Example: "His novels always have a lot of action"

The trait of being active and energetic and forceful

Example: "A man of action"

The operating part that transmits power to a mechanism

Example: "The piano had a very stiff action"

• action mechanism

• mechanism  18

• firing mechanism
• gunlock  14
• movement  15
• piano action
• • pump action
  • slide action
  • action  8
• Load more...

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

• action at law
• legal action

• legal proceeding
• proceeding  16
• proceedings  17

• antitrust case
• civil action
• counterclaim  18
• custody case
• • lis pendens
  • criminal prosecution
  • prosecution  15
  • test case
  • test suit
• Load more...

An act by a government body or supranational organization

Example: "Recent federal action undermined the segregationist position"

The most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field

Example: "The action is no longer in technology stocks but in municipal bonds"

In firearms terminology, the mechanism that handles the ammunition (loads, locks, fires, and extracts the cartridges).

Example: "Actions can be categorized in several ways, including single action versus double action, break action versus bolt action, and others."

• action  8
• action mechanism

• blowback  21