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==References == | <p> '''(1):''' (n.) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted. </p> <p> '''(2):''' (n.) Gesticulation; the external deportment of the speaker, or the suiting of his attitude, voice, gestures, and countenance, to the subject, or to the feelings. </p> <p> '''(3):''' (n.) The mechanical contrivance by means of which the impulse of the player's finger is transmitted to the strings of a pianoforte or to the valve of an organ pipe. </p> <p> '''(4):''' (n.) An engagement between troops in war, whether on land or water; a battle; a fight; as, a general action, a partial action. </p> <p> '''(5):''' (n.) [[A]] share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds; hence, in the plural, equivalent to stocks. </p> <p> '''(6):''' (n.) [[A]] right of action; as, the law gives an action for every claim. </p> <p> '''(7):''' (n.) [[A]] suit or process, by which a demand is made of a right in a court of justice; in a broad sense, a judicial proceeding for the enforcement or protection of a right, the redress or prevention of a wrong, or the punishment of a public offense. </p> <p> '''(8):''' (n.) An act; a thing done; a deed; an enterprise. (pl.): Habitual deeds; hence, conduct; behavior; demeanor. </p> <p> '''(9):''' (n.) Any one of the active processes going on in an organism; the performance of a function; as, the action of the heart, the muscles, or the gastric juice. </p> <p> '''(10):''' (n.) Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. </p> <p> '''(11):''' (n.) Movement; as, the horse has a spirited action. </p> <p> '''(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. </p> <p> '''(13):''' (n.) [[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. </p> | ||
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Latest revision as of 00:25, 13 October 2021
Action [1]
(1): (n.) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.
(2): (n.) Gesticulation; the external deportment of the speaker, or the suiting of his attitude, voice, gestures, and countenance, to the subject, or to the feelings.
(3): (n.) The mechanical contrivance by means of which the impulse of the player's finger is transmitted to the strings of a pianoforte or to the valve of an organ pipe.
(4): (n.) An engagement between troops in war, whether on land or water; a battle; a fight; as, a general action, a partial action.
(5): (n.) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds; hence, in the plural, equivalent to stocks.
(6): (n.) A right of action; as, the law gives an action for every claim.
(7): (n.) A suit or process, by which a demand is made of a right in a court of justice; in a broad sense, a judicial proceeding for the enforcement or protection of a right, the redress or prevention of a wrong, or the punishment of a public offense.
(8): (n.) An act; a thing done; a deed; an enterprise. (pl.): Habitual deeds; hence, conduct; behavior; demeanor.
(9): (n.) Any one of the active processes going on in an organism; the performance of a function; as, the action of the heart, the muscles, or the gastric juice.
(10): (n.) Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun.
(11): (n.) Movement; as, the horse has a spirited action.
(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.) 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.
