Action

['ækʃ(ə)n] or ['ækʃən]

解释:

(noun.) something done (usually as opposed to something said); 'there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions'.

(noun.) the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field; 'the action is no longer in technology stocks but in municipal bonds'; 'gawkers always try to get as close to the action as possible'.

(noun.) an act by a government body or supranational organization; 'recent federal action undermined the segregationist position'; 'the United Nations must have the power to propose and organize action without being hobbled by irrelevant issues'; 'the Union action of emancipating Southern slaves'.

(noun.) the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism; 'the piano had a very stiff action'.

(noun.) the trait of being active and energetic and forceful; 'a man of action'.

(noun.) the series of events that form a plot; 'his novels always have a lot of action'.

(noun.) the state of being active; 'his sphere of activity'; 'he is out of action'.

(verb.) institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against; 'He was warned that the district attorney would process him'; 'She actioned the company for discrimination'.

黛博拉校对--From WordNet

解释:

(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.

(n.) An act; a thing done; a deed; an enterprise. (pl.): Habitual deeds; hence, conduct; behavior; demeanor.

(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.

(n.) Movement; as, the horse has a spirited action.

(n.) Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun.

(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.

(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.

(n.) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.

(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.

(n.) A right of action; as, the law gives an action for every claim.

(n.) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds; hence, in the plural, equivalent to stocks.

(n.) An engagement between troops in war, whether on land or water; a battle; a fight; as, a general action, a partial action.

(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.

手打:玛丽安

同义词及近义词:

n. [1]. Activity, exercise, motion, movement, play.[2]. Deed (viewed as requiring a continued exertion of power), performance, exploit, achievement, procedure, proceeding, acting, turn, ACT.[3]. Agency, operation, force, influence, instrumentality, process.[4]. Battle, engagement, conflict, contest, combat, rencontre, encounter, skirmish, brush, affair.[5]. Gesticulation, gesture.[6]. Subject, fable, plot, series of events.[7]. (Law.) Suit, process, case, prosecution.

乔斯林编辑

解释:

n. a state of acting: activity in the abstract: a deed: operation: gesture: a battle: a lawsuit or proceedings in a court: the movement of events in a drama novel &c.—adj. Ac′tionable liable to a lawsuit.—n. Ac′tion-tak′ing (Shak.) resenting an injury by a lawsuit instead of fighting it out like a man of honour.

校对:莱斯利

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编辑:纳内特

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