adj
Meaning 1
arrogant
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Manglish
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
action
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈækʃən̩/
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Received-Pronunciation: [ˈækʃn̩]
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British, Northern-England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales: /ˈakʃən̩/
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British, Northern-England, Scotland, Southern, Standard, Wales: [ˈakʃn̩]
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General-American: /ˈækʃən/
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rhymes with -ækʃən
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CMU ARPABET: AE1 K SH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
intj
Meaning 2
Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually a performance.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- The director yelled ‘Action!’ after the cameras started rolling.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: cut
noun
Meaning 3
The effort of performing or doing something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
Something done, often so as to accomplish a purpose.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: deed
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 5
A way of motion or functioning.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- Knead bread with a rocking action.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
Fast-paced activity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- a movie full of exciting action
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
The way in which a mechanical device acts when used; especially a firearm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- Pressing a piano key causes the action of the hammer on the string.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 8
The way in which a mechanical device acts when used; especially a firearm.
The way in which cartridges are loaded, locked, and extracted from the mechanism.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: engineering, firearms, government, military, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, politics, tools, war, weaponry
Examples
- pump-action shotgun
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 9
A physical mechanism of a firearm or other device.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 10
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, music
Examples
- The run in bar 12 is almost impossible with this piano's heavy action.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 11
The distance separating the strings and the fingerboard on a string instrument.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: arts, crafts, entertainment, hobbies, lifestyle, lutherie, music
Examples
- You're getting fret buzz because the action is too low.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 12
Sexual intercourse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, slang, uncountable
Qualifier: typically with a quantifier
Examples
- She gave him some action.
- I hope to get a bit of action with the hot guy from the club.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: 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
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 13
Combat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: government, military, politics, war
Examples
- He saw some action in the Korean War.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 14
A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: law
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: suit, action, cause, lawsuit, litigation
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 15
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).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: mathematics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 16
The product of energy and time, especially the product of the Lagrangian and time.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 17
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: literature, media, publishing
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 18
The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: painting and sculpture
Topics: art, arts
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 19
spin put on the bowling ball.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: bowling, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 20
A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 21
A religious performance or solemn function, i.e. action sermon, a sacramental sermon in the Scots Presbyterian Church.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: Christianity
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 22
A process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 23
Purposeful behavior.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Austrian, countable, uncountable
Topics: economics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 24
A demonstration by activists.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 25
The opportunity to act during a betting round.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: card-games, poker
Examples
- The action starts with the small blind.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 26
Heavy betting activity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly, slang, uncountable
Topics: card-games, poker
Examples
- There was a lot of action on the flop; it was an action flop.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 27
To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Topics: management
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 28
To initiate a legal action against someone.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 29
something done (usually as opposed to something said)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: act, deed, human action, human activity
Narrower terms: thing, kindness, benignity, accomplishment, achievement, alienation, application, res gestae, course, course of action, interaction, fetch, playing, play, swordplay, arrival, performance, execution, carrying out, carrying into action, choice, selection, option, pick, change, economy, saving, prohibition, inhibition, forbiddance, resistance, opposition, bruxism, transfusion, pickings, taking, transgression, aggression, hostility, destabilization, destabilisation, employment, engagement, politeness, civility, reverence, reference, consultation, emphasizing, accenting, accentuation, beatification, jumpstart, jump-start, stupefaction, vampirism
noun
Meaning 30
the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the action is no longer in technology stocks but in municipal bonds
- gawkers always try to get as close to the action as possible
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: work
noun
Meaning 31
a military engagement
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- he saw action in Korea
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: military action
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: group action
Narrower terms: amphibious landing, battle, conflict, fight, engagement, blockade, encirclement, defense, defence, defensive measure, electronic warfare, EW, police action, resistance, saber rattling, sabre rattling, sortie, sally, war, warfare
noun
Meaning 32
a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: legal action, action at law
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: proceeding, legal proceeding, proceedings
Narrower terms: antitrust case, civil action, counterclaim, custody case, lis pendens, prosecution, criminal prosecution, test case, test suit
noun
Meaning 33
an act by a government body or supranational organization
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- 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
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: group action
noun
Meaning 34
the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the piano had a very stiff action
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: action mechanism
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: mechanism
Narrower terms: gunlock, firing mechanism, movement, piano action, pump action, slide action
noun
Meaning 35
the trait of being active and energetic and forceful
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a man of action
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: drive
noun
Meaning 36
the series of events that form a plot
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- his novels always have a lot of action
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: plot
noun
Meaning 37
a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the action of natural forces
- volcanic activity
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: natural process, natural action, activity
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: process, physical process
Narrower terms: radiation, absorption, acidification, adiabatic process, aeration, antiredeposition, capture, centrifugation, chemical process, chemical change, chemical action, chromatography, concretion, condensation, convection, curdling, clotting, coagulation, decay, demagnetization, demagnetisation, desorption, diffusion, dissolution, disintegration, distillation, distillment, drift, effervescence, electrophoresis, cataphoresis, dielectrolysis, ionophoresis, establishment, ecesis, extinction, extraction, feedback, filtration, flocculation, flow, formation, fossilization, fossilisation, geological process, geologic process, hardening, solidifying, solidification, set, curing, inactivation, ion exchange, ionization, ionisation, leach, leaching, magnetization, magnetisation, magnetic induction, materialization, materialisation, nuclear reaction, opacification, oscillation, oxygenation, pair production, pair creation, pair formation, phase change, phase transition, state change, physical change, precession of the equinoxes, release, saltation, scattering, sericulture, sink, soak, soakage, soaking, softening, sorption, source, stiffening, rigidifying, rigidification, stimulation, succession, ecological succession, survival, survival of the fittest, natural selection, selection, synergy, synergism, temperature change, transduction, transpiration, vitrification
noun
Meaning 38
the state of being active
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- his sphere of activity
- he is out of action
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: activity, activeness
Antonyms: inaction
Broader terms: state
Narrower terms: agency, busyness, hum, behavior, behaviour, eruption, eructation, extravasation, operation, overdrive, play, swing
verb
Meaning 39
put in effect
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- carry out a task
- execute the decision of the people
- He actioned the operation
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: carry through, accomplish, execute, carry out, fulfill, fulfil
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: complete, finish, effect, effectuate, set up
Narrower terms: get over, run, consummate, do, perform, dispatch, discharge, complete
verb
Meaning 40
institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- He was warned that the district attorney would process him
- She actioned the company for discrimination
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sue, litigate, process
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: challenge
Narrower terms: expedite
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h2eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h2éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Latin āctum Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin āctiō Old French aucionbor. Middle English accioun English action 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.
Across languages
Translations
266 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Mandarin: 開始 /开始 (kāishǐ) — signifying the start of something
- Chinese Mandarin: action — signifying the start of something
- Dutch: actie — signifying the start of something
- Finnish: käy — signifying the start of something
- French: action — signifying the start of something
- Greek: πάμε (páme) — signifying the start of something
- Hebrew: אקשן (ékshen) — signifying the start of something
- Hungarian: tessék — signifying the start of something
- Italian: azione — signifying the start of something
- Japanese: アクション (akushon) — signifying the start of something
- Korean: 액션 (aeksyeon) — signifying the start of something
- Māori: tautapa — signifying the start of something
- Polish: akcja — signifying the start of something
- Portuguese: ação — signifying the start of something
- Spanish: acción — signifying the start of something
- Swedish: börja — signifying the start of something
- Swedish: varsågod — signifying the start of something
- Swedish: tagning — signifying the start of something
- Finnish: toiminta — effort of performing or doing something
- Finnish: tekeminen — effort of performing or doing something
- Spanish: acción — effort of performing or doing something
- Afrikaans: optrede — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Albanian: veprim — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Arabic: عَمَل (ʕamal) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Armenian: գործողություն (gorcoġutʻyun) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Armenian: արարք (ararkʻ) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Bashkir: ғәмәл (ğəməl) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Belarusian: дзе́янне (dzjéjannje) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Bulgarian: де́йствие (déjstvie) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Bulgarian: де́йност (déjnost) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Catalan: acció — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Chinese Mandarin: 行動 /行动 (xíngdòng) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Chinese Mandarin: 作用 (zuòyòng) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Ngazidja Comorian: itrenɗwa — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Corsican: azzione — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Corsican: azzioni — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Czech: čin — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Danish: handling — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Dutch: handeling — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Dutch: actie — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Egyptian: st-t:a:Z1 (st-ꜥ) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Esperanto: ago — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Estonian: tegu — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Finnish: teko — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Finnish: toimenpide — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Finnish: toimi — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- French: action — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Galician: acción — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Georgian: ქმედება (kmedeba) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Georgian: მოქმედება (mokmedeba) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- German: Handlung — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- German: Aktion — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Greek: ενέργεια (enérgeia) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Greek: πράξη (práxi) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Ancient Greek: πρᾶξις (prâxis) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Hausa: yin abu — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Hebrew: פעולה \ פְּעֻלָּה (p'ulá) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Hebrew: מַעֲשֶׂה (ma'asé) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Hindi: कर्म (karm) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Hindi: करम (karam) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Hindi: काम (kām) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Hindi: क्रिया (kriyā) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Hungarian: tett — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Hungarian: cselekedet — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Hungarian: intézkedés — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Hungarian: művelet — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Ido: ago — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Indonesian: aksi — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Indonesian: tindakan — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Interlingua: action — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Irish: aicsean — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Italian: azione — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Japanese: 行動 (kōdō) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Kaitag: шикь (šiq̇) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Khmer: កម្ម (kam) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Khmer: កិរិយា (keriyaa) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Khmer: កិច្ច (kəc) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Korean: 행동 (haengdong) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Lao: ກໍາ (kam) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Lao: ການກະທໍາ (kān ka tham) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Latin: āctiō — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Latin: āctus — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Low German: Akschoon — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Macedonian: дејство (dejstvo) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Malay: aksi — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Malay: tindakan — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Malayalam: കർമ്മം (kaṟmmaṁ) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Malayalam: പ്രവൃത്തി (pravr̥tti) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Maltese: azzjoni — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Māori: hohenga — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Old English: dǣd — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Persian: ژیرش (žireš) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Persian: کنش (koneš) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Persian: آکسیون (âksyon) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Persian: عمل ('amal) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Polish: czynność — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Polish: działanie — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Polish: czyn — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Polish: akcja — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Portuguese: ação — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Romanian: faptă — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Romanian: acțiune — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Russian: де́йствие (déjstvije) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Russian: посту́пок (postúpok) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Russian: а́кция (ákcija) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Russian: акт (akt) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Russian: дея́ние (dejánije) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Sanskrit: कर्मन् (karman) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Scottish Gaelic: gnìomh — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Serbo-Croatian: ра́дња — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Serbo-Croatian: чи̑н — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Serbo-Croatian: rádnja — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Serbo-Croatian: čȋn — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Sicilian: azzioni — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Slovak: čin — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Slovene: dejanje — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Spanish: acción — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Swedish: handling — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Tagalog: aksiyon — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Tajik: амал (amal) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Thai: กรรม (gam) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Thai: การกระทํา (gaan-grà-tam) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Tibetan: ལས (las) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Tocharian B: yamalläññe — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Tocharian B: yāmor — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Turkish: aksiyon — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Turkish: amel — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Turkish: eylem — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Turkish: fiil — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Ottoman Turkish: حركت (hareket) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Ukrainian: ді́я (díja) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Ukrainian: ді́яння (díjannja) — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Uzbek: harakat — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Vietnamese: hành động — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Volapük: dun — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Volapük: dunam — something done so as to accomplish a purpose
- Afar: abina abto — way of motion or functioning
- Armenian: շարժում (šaržum) — way of motion or functioning
- Bulgarian: движение (dviženie) — way of motion or functioning
- Catalan: acció — way of motion or functioning
- Chinese Mandarin: 動作 /动作 (dòngzuò) — way of motion or functioning
- Dutch: beweging — way of motion or functioning
- Dutch: werking — way of motion or functioning
- Finnish: liike — way of motion or functioning
- French: action — way of motion or functioning
- German: Bewegung — way of motion or functioning
- German: Funktion — way of motion or functioning
- Greek: κίνηση (kínisi) — way of motion or functioning
- Hebrew: אופן פעולה — way of motion or functioning
- Hindi: कार्य (kārya) — way of motion or functioning
- Hindi: काज (kāj) — way of motion or functioning
- Hindi: कार्यवाही (kāryavāhī) — way of motion or functioning
- Hungarian: mozgás — way of motion or functioning
- Hungarian: cselekvés — way of motion or functioning
- Hungarian: működés — way of motion or functioning
- Hungarian: cselekmény — way of motion or functioning
- Hungarian: üzemelés — way of motion or functioning
- Hungarian: ténykedés — way of motion or functioning
- Hungarian: tevékenykedés — way of motion or functioning
- Ido: ago — way of motion or functioning
- Ido: maniero — way of motion or functioning
- Interlingua: action — way of motion or functioning
- Italian: azione — way of motion or functioning
- Japanese: 動作 (dōsa) — way of motion or functioning
- Korean: 작동 (jakdong) — way of motion or functioning
- Latin: āctiō — way of motion or functioning
- Māori: hohenga — way of motion or functioning
- Persian: ژیرش (žireš) — way of motion or functioning
- Portuguese: ação — way of motion or functioning
- Russian: де́йствие (déjstvije) — way of motion or functioning
- Russian: возде́йствие (vozdéjstvije) — way of motion or functioning
- Russian: движе́ние (dvižénije) — way of motion or functioning
- Spanish: acción — way of motion or functioning
- Swedish: rörelse — way of motion or functioning
- Tagalog: aksiyon — way of motion or functioning
- Tagalog: kilos — way of motion or functioning
- Vietnamese: động tác — way of motion or functioning
- Bulgarian: екшън (ekšǎn) — fast-paced activity
- Catalan: acció — fast-paced activity
- Czech: akce — fast-paced activity
- Dutch: actie — fast-paced activity
- Finnish: toiminta — fast-paced activity
- French: action — fast-paced activity
- German: Action — fast-paced activity
- Greek: δράση (drási) — fast-paced activity
- Hebrew: אקשן (ekshen) — fast-paced activity
- Hungarian: akció — fast-paced activity
- Hungarian: művelet — fast-paced activity
- Ido: agado — fast-paced activity
- Interlingua: action — fast-paced activity
- Italian: azione — fast-paced activity
- Japanese: アクション (akushon) — fast-paced activity
- Korean: 액션 (aeksyeon) — fast-paced activity
- Low German: Akschoon — fast-paced activity
- Polish: akcja — fast-paced activity
- Portuguese: ação — fast-paced activity
- Swedish: action — fast-paced activity
- Turkish: aksiyon — fast-paced activity
- Finnish: koneisto — music: set of moving mechanical parts of a keyboard instrument
- Finnish: kielen korkeus — music: distance separating the strings and the fretboard
- Dutch: actie — slang: intercourse
- Finnish: kyyti — slang: intercourse
- Finnish: pano — slang: intercourse
- Korean: 성교 (seonggyo) — slang: intercourse
- Swedish: action — slang: intercourse
- Turkish: münasebet — slang: intercourse
- Armenian: կռիվ (kṙiv) — military: combat
- Bulgarian: бой (boj) — military: combat
- Bulgarian: сраже́ние (sražénie) — military: combat
- Chinese Mandarin: 戰鬥 /战斗 (zhàndòu) — military: combat
- Czech: akce — military: combat
- Dutch: actie — military: combat
- Finnish: taistelu — military: combat
- Finnish: toiminta — military: combat
- French: action — military: combat
- German: Kampf — military: combat
- Hindi: कार्यवाही (kāryavāhī) — military: combat
- Hindi: अभियान (abhiyān) — military: combat
- Hungarian: csata — military: combat
- Hungarian: ütközet — military: combat
- Hungarian: harc — military: combat
- Ido: kombato — military: combat
- Irish: comhrac — military: combat
- Italian: azione — military: combat
- Japanese: 交戦 (kōsen) — military: combat
- Japanese: 戦闘 (sentō) — military: combat
- Korean: 교전 (gyojeon) — military: combat
- Korean: 전투 (jeontu) — military: combat
- Persian: ژیرش (žireš) — military: combat
- Portuguese: ação — military: combat
- Russian: бой (boj) — military: combat
- Russian: сраже́ние (sražénije) — military: combat
- Scottish Gaelic: gnìomh — military: combat
- Armenian: հայց (haycʻ) — law: charge
- Bulgarian: иск (isk) — law: charge
- Catalan: acció — law: charge
- Chinese Mandarin: 訴訟 /诉讼 (sùsòng) — law: charge
- Czech: žaloba — law: charge
- Finnish: kanne — law: charge
- French: action en justice — law: charge
- French: action légale — law: charge
- German: Klage — law: charge
- Greek: αγωγή (agogí) — law: charge
- Greek: δίωξη (díoxi) — law: charge
- Hebrew: תביעה משפטית — law: charge
- Hindi: अभियोग (abhiyog) — law: charge
- Hungarian: kereset — law: charge
- Hungarian: per — law: charge
- Hungarian: eljárás — law: charge
- Irish: cás — law: charge
- Italian: azione legale — law: charge
- Japanese: 訴訟 (soshō) — law: charge
- Korean: 소송 (sosong) — law: charge
- Latin: āctiō — law: charge
- Portuguese: ação — law: charge
- Russian: иск (isk) — law: charge
- Spanish: acción judicial — law: charge
- Ottoman Turkish: یارغو (yarğı) — law: charge
- Finnish: toiminto — mathematics: type of mapping
- Norwegian Bokmål: virkning — mathematics: type of mapping
- Norwegian Nynorsk: verknad — mathematics: type of mapping
- Finnish: vaikutus — physics: product of energy and time
- Finnish: toiminta — unfolding of the drama of events
- Finnish: liike — painting and sculpture: attitude or position of the several parts of the body
- Finnish: kierre — bowling: spin
- Finnish: jenga — bowling: spin
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