Engelsk navneord: action | |||
1. | action (om handling) something done (usually as opposed to something said) | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | There were stories of murders and other unnatural actions. | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | act, deed, human action, human activity | ||
Mere specifikke termer | accenting, accentuation, accomplishment, achievement, aggression, alienation, application, arrival, beatification, benignity, bruxism, carrying into action, carrying out, change, choice, civility, consultation, course, course of action, destabilisation, destabilization, economy, emphasizing, employment, engagement, execution, fetch, forbiddance, hostility, inhibition, interaction, jump-start, jumpstart, kindness, opposition, option, performance, pick, pickings, play, playing, politeness, prohibition, reference, res gestae, resistance, reverence, saving, selection, stupefaction, swordplay, taking, thing, transfusion, transgression, vampirism | ||
2. | action (om tilstand) the state of being active | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | His sphere of activity. He is out of action. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | activeness, activity | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | state | ||
Mere specifikke termer | agency, behavior, behaviour, busyness, eructation, eruption, extravasation, hum, operation, overdrive, play, swing | ||
Kendetegner | active | ||
Termer med modsat betydning (antonymer) | inaction, inactiveness, inactivity | ||
3. | action (om handling) a military engagement | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | He saw action in Korea. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | military action | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | group action | ||
Mere specifikke termer | amphibious landing, battle, blockade, conflict, defence, defense, defensive measure, electronic warfare, encirclement, engagement, EW, fight, police action, resistance, saber rattling, sabre rattling, sally, sortie, war, warfare | ||
Overordnet emneområde | armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine | ||
4. | action (om proces) a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings) | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The action of natural forces. Volcanic activity. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | activity, natural action, natural process | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | physical process, process | ||
Mere specifikke termer | absorption, acidification, adiabatic process, aeration, antiredeposition, capture, capture, cataphoresis, centrifugation, chemical action, chemical change, chemical process, chromatography, clotting, coagulation, concretion, condensation, convection, curdling, curing, decay, demagnetisation, demagnetization, desorption, dielectrolysis, diffusion, disintegration, dissolution, distillation, distillment, drift, ecesis, ecological succession, effervescence, electrophoresis, establishment, extinction, extraction, feedback, filtration, flocculation, flow, formation, fossilisation, fossilization, geologic process, geological process, hardening, inactivation, ion exchange, ionisation, ionization, ionophoresis, leach, leaching, magnetic induction, magnetisation, magnetization, materialisation, materialization, natural selection, nuclear reaction, opacification, oscillation, oxygenation, pair creation, pair formation, pair production, phase change, phase transition, physical change, precession of the equinoxes, radiation, release, rigidification, rigidifying, saltation, scattering, selection, sericulture, set, sink, soak, soakage, soaking, softening, solidification, solidifying, sorption, source, state change, stiffening, stimulation, succession, survival, survival of the fittest, synergism, synergy, temperature change, transduction, transpiration, vitrification | ||
5. | action (om kommunikation) the series of events that form a plot | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | His novels always have a lot of action. | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | plot | ||
6. | action (om egenskab) the trait of being active and energetic and forceful | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | A man of action. | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | drive | ||
7. | action (om genstand) the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The piano had a very stiff action. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | action mechanism | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | mechanism | ||
Mere specifikke termer | firing mechanism, gunlock, movement, piano action, pump action, slide action | ||
Omfatter disse specifikke termer | key | ||
Omfatter disse overordnede termer | gun, keyboard | ||
8. | action (om handling) 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 | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | action at law, legal action | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | legal proceeding, proceeding, proceedings | ||
Mere specifikke termer | antitrust case, civil action, counterclaim, criminal prosecution, custody case, lis pendens, prosecution, test case, test suit | ||
Overordnet emneområde | jurisprudence, law | ||
9. | action (om handling) an act by a government body or supranational organization | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | 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. | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | group action | ||
10. | action (om handling) the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | The action is no longer in technology stocks but in municipal bonds. Gawkers always try to get as close to the action as possible. | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | work | ||
Engelsk udsagnsord: action | |||
1. | action (om adfærd) institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | He was warned that the district attorney would process him. She actioned the company for discrimination. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | litigate, process, sue | ||
Anvendelsesmønster | Somebody ----s somebody | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | challenge | ||
Mere specifikke termer | expedite | ||
Udsagnsord med lignende betydning | litigate | ||
2. | action (om tilvejebringelse) put in effect | ||
Eksempler med tilsvarende betydning | Carry out a task. Execute the decision of the people. He actioned the operation. | ||
Termer med samme betydning (synonymer) | accomplish, carry out, carry through, execute, fulfil, fulfill | ||
Anvendelsesmønster | Somebody ----s something | ||
Mindre specifikke termer | complete, effect, effectuate, finish, set up | ||
Mere specifikke termer | complete, consummate, consummate, discharge, dispatch, do, get over, perform, run | ||
Udsagnsord med lignende betydning | carry out, follow out, follow through, follow up, go through, implement, put through | ||