“actions” is a form of
action
UK /ˈækʃən̩/ · US /ˈækʃən/ noun, interjection, adjective, verb
Forms actions action! actioning actioned
- noun The effort of performing or doing something.
- noun Something done, often so as to accomplish a purpose.
- noun A way of motion or functioning. “Knead bread with a rocking action.”
- noun Fast-paced activity. “a movie full of exciting action”
- noun The way in which a mechanical device acts when used; especially a firearm. “Pressing a piano key causes the action of the hammer on the string.”
- noun (firearms) The way in which cartridges are loaded, locked, and extracted from the mechanism. “pump-action shotgun”
- noun A physical mechanism of a firearm or other device.
- noun (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. “The run in bar 12 is almost impossible with this piano's heavy action.”
- interjection Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually a performance. “The director yelled ‘Action!’ after the cameras started rolling.”
- adjective (Manglish) arrogant
- verb (transitive, management) To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.
- verb (transitive, chiefly archaic) To initiate a legal action against someone.
Synonyms
deed aphrodisia carnal knowledge coitus coition commerce commixtion congress conjunction connection consummation conversation copulation coupling intercourse intimacy intimate relations intromission joining lovemaking activity activeness military action natural process natural action action mechanism legal action action at law sue litigate
Antonyms
Etymology
From Middle English accioun, accion, from Old French aucion, acciun, from Latin āctiō(n) (“act of doing or making”), from āct(us) + action suffix -iō(n), perfect passive participle of agere (“do, act”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti. See also act, active. By surface analysis, act + -ion.
Webster’s 1913
- noun A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of power exerted on one body by another; agency; activity; operation; as, the action of heat; a man of action.
- noun An act; a thing done; a deed; an enterprise. (pl.): Habitual deeds; hence, conduct; behavior; demeanor.
Etymology [OF. action, L. actio, fr. agere to do. See Act.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “action”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details