Activity
[æk'tɪvɪtɪ] or [æk'tɪviti]
Definition
(noun.) any specific behavior; 'they avoided all recreational activity'.
(noun.) (chemistry) the capacity of a substance to take part in a chemical reaction; 'catalytic activity'.
Editor: Lois--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities.
Checker: Wade
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Action, exercise.[2]. Alertness, agility, nimbleness, smartness, briskness, sprightliness, spryness.[3]. Intensity, energy, strength, force, power, vigor.[4]. Enterprise, efficiency.
Edited by Brent
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Agility, quickness, energy, briskness, vivacity, promptness, alertness,celerity, rapidity
ANT:Inactivity, awkwardness, Indolence, slowness, sloth, clumsiness, heaviness,sluggishness, lassitude
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Examples
- The object is but a phase of the active end,--continuing the activity successfully. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- His judgment, activity, and consummate bravery, justified their choice. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The mind acquires through language a field of activity independent of the objective world. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- When the purpose of the activity is restricted to ascertaining these qualities, the resulting knowledge is only technical. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The yard presented none of that bustle and activity which are the usual characteristics of a large coach inn. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- His advice, energy, activity, money, credit, all his resources whatsoever, were all made useless. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- There is an activity in process; one is taken up with the development of a theme. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- They are anticipations of some continuity or connection of an activity and a consequence which has not as yet shown itself. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- To identify acting with an aim and intelligent activity is enough to show its value--its function in experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- That ravenous second hunger of poverty--the hunger for money--roused them into tumult and activity in a moment. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Something which is called mind or consciousness is severed from the physical organs of activity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I cannot conscientiously advise you to do it in dependence on any activity of mine. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But in a shared activity, each person refers what he is doing to what the other is doing and vice-versa. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In general, every stimulus directs activity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It is the fact that the aim is thought of as more activity in the same line, without defining continuity of action in reference to results produced. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This means that definite coordinations of activities of the eyes in seeing and of the body and head in striking are perfected in a few trials. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- We do not have to draw out or educe positive activities from a child, as some educational doctrines would have it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Compared with the vast gilded void of Mrs. Hatch's existence, the life of Lily's former friends seemed packed with ordered activities. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The _cable car_ is a factor which has cut no small figure in the activities of city life. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Our conscious thoughts, observations, wishes, aversions are important, because they represent inchoate, nascent activities. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Economic history deals with the activities, the career, and fortunes of the common man as does no other branch of history. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The latter is the element that we breathe and which passes into the body, there to combine with the impurities resulting from the various life activities. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- To charge that the various activities of gardening, weaving, construction in wood, manipulation of metals, cooking, etc. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It is a sort of rough sketch for use in direction of further activities. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Where there is life, there are already eager and impassioned activities. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In the midst of his activities occurred one of the most extraordinary incidents in history. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The counterpart of the isolation of mind from activities dealing with objects to accomplish ends is isolation of the subject matter to be learned. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Intense loyalty to the queen mother is apparent in all their activities and arrangements. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Only through them, in the literal time sense, will the initial activities reach a satisfactory consummation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Beneath their activities what was the life of the mute multitude? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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