action

1. 1.

   (countable, uncountable)The effort of performing or doing something.

2. 2.

   (countable, uncountable)Something done, often so as to accomplish a purpose.

   Đồng nghĩa: deed

3. 3.

   (countable, uncountable)A way of motion or functioning.

   Knead bread with a rocking action.

4. 4.

   (countable, uncountable)Fast-paced activity.

   a movie full of exciting action

5. 5.

   (countable, uncountable)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.

6. 6.

   (countable, uncountable)A physical mechanism.

7. 7.

   (countable, uncountable)(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.

8. 8.

   (countable, uncountable)(music, lutherie) The distance separating the strings and the fingerboard on a string instrument.

   You're getting fret buzz because the action is too low.

9. 9.

   (countable, slang, uncountable)(slang, typically with a quantifier) Sexual intercourse.

   She gave him some action.

   I hope to get a bit of action with the hot guy from the club.

   Đồng nghĩa: aphrodisia, carnal knowledge, coitus, coition, commerce, commixtion, congress, conjunction, connection, consummation, conversation, copulation, coupling, intercourse, intimacy, intimate relations, intromission, joining, lovemaking, lustmaking, mating, mounting, pareunia, penetration, relations, sex, sexual congress, sexual intercourse, sexual relation, sexual union, swiving, union, the beast with two backs, the birds and the bees, boom-boom, chesterfield rugby, horizontal dancing, horizontal hula, horizontal jogging, horizontal mambo, horizontal refreshments, horizontal slam dance, how's your father, love, Netflix and chill, physical love, roll in the hay, Ugandan affairs, Ugandan discussions, action, ass, bang, barney-mugging, beef injection, bonking, cuntfuck, fucking, frig, fucky-fucky, hot beef injection, hump, humpa humpa, jig-jig, jiggy-jiggy, lay, legover, meat injection, nookie, old hat, pipe, plow, plough, poon, poontang, punani, pussy, ride, root, rumpo, rumpy-pumpy, seeing-to, sexy time, sexy times, screw, screwing, shag, skin, snu snu, tang, trim, hanky-panky, funny business, making whoopee, jiggery-pokery, monkey business, fooling about, fooling around, playing around

10. 10.

    (countable, uncountable)(military) Combat.

    He saw some action in the Korean War.

11. 11.

    (countable, uncountable)(law) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).

    Đồng nghĩa: suit, action, cause, lawsuit, litigation, suit

12. 12.

    (countable, uncountable)(mathematics) A way in which each element of some algebraic structure transforms some other structure or set, in a way which respects the structure of the first. Formally, this may be seen as a morphism from the first structure into some structure of endomorphisms of the second; for example, a group action of a group G on a set S can be seen as a group homomorphism from G into the set of bijections on S (which form a group under function composition), while a module M over a ring R can be defined as an abelian group together with a ring homomorphism from R into the ring of group endomorphisms of M (which is also called the action of R on M).

action!

1. 1.

   Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually a performance.

   The director yelled ‘Action!’ after the cameras started rolling.

1. 1.

   (Manglish)arrogant

1. 1.

   (transitive)(transitive, management) To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.

2. 2.

   (archaic, transitive)(transitive, chiefly archaic) To initiate a legal action against someone.