| action | |
| 1. n. Something done so as to accomplish a purpose. | |
| 2. n. A way of motion or functioning. | |
| Knead bread with a rocking action. | |
| 3. n. Fast-paced activity. | |
| a movie full of exciting action | |
| 4. n. A mechanism; a moving part or assembly. | |
| a rifle action | |
| 5. n. (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.Marshall Cavendish Corporat | |
| 6. n. (slang) sexual intercourse. | |
| She gave him some action. | |
| 7. n. The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on the guitar. | |
| 8. n. (military) Combat. | |
| He saw some action in the Korean War. | |
| 9. n. (legal) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio). | |
| 10. n. (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 | |
| 11. n. (physics) The product of energy and time. | |
| 12. n. 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. | |
| 13. n. (art, painting and sculpture) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted. | |
| 14. n. (bowling) spin put on the bowling ball. | |
| 15. n. (business, obsolete, a Gallicism) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds. | |
| 16. interj. 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. | |
| 17. v. (transitive, management) To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect. | |
| 18. v. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To initiate a legal action against someone. | |
