English noun: activity |
1. | activity (act) any specific behavior |
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| Samples | They avoided all recreational activity.
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| Broader (hypernym) | act, deed, human action, human activity |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | acting, activating, activation, actus reus, aid, animation, assist, assistance, attempt, bag, behavior, behavior, behaviour, behaviour, burst, business, buzz, calibration, ceremony, ceremony, committal to writing, concealing, concealment, conduct, continuance, continuation, control, creation, creative activity, cup of tea, deeds, delectation, demand, didactics, disassembly, dish, dismantlement, dismantling, dissipation, disturbance, diversion, doings, domesticity, education, educational activity, effort, emplacement, employment, endeavor, endeavour, energizing, enjoyment, exercise, fit, follow-up, followup, fun, game, grooming, grouping, hell, help, hiding, hunt, hunting, instruction, job, lamentation, last, laughter, leadership, leading, line, line of work, liveliness, locating, location, market, market place, marketplace, measure, measurement, measuring, mensuration, military operation, misconduct, mourning, music, mystification, negotiation, obfuscation, occupation, occupation, operation, operation, operation, organisation, organization, outlet, pattern, pedagogy, performing, perturbation, placement, play, playacting, playing, pleasure, politics, position, positioning, practice, precedence, precedency, precession, preparation, preparation, procedure, process, protection, provision, puncture, readying, recreation, release, representation, role, search, sensory activity, service, sin, solo, space walk, standardisation, standardization, supply, supplying, support, support, supporting, teaching, timekeeping, training, try, turn, usage, use, utilisation, utilization, variance, variation, vent, verbalisation, verbalization, waste, wastefulness, work, works, worship, writing, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct |
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| Antonyms | inactivity |
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2. | activity (state) the state of being active |
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| Samples | His sphere of activity. He is out of action.
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| Synonyms | action, activeness |
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| Broader (hypernym) | state |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | agency, behavior, behaviour, busyness, eructation, eruption, extravasation, hum, operation, overdrive, play, swing |
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| Attribute | active |
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| Antonyms | inaction, inactiveness, inactivity |
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3. | activity (process) an organic process that takes place in the body |
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| Samples | Respiratory activity.
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| Synonyms | bodily function, bodily process, body process |
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| Broader (hypernym) | biological process, organic process |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | ablactation, anastalsis, breath, breathing, consumption, control, crying, diaphoresis, discharge, emission, expectoration, expelling, external respiration, festering, healing, hidrosis, hypostasis, ingestion, insemination, intake, lachrymation, lacrimation, lactation, maturation, opsonisation, opsonization, overactivity, peristalsis, perspiration, phagocytosis, pinocytosis, placentation, psilosis, reaction, respiration, respiration, response, sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice, sleeping, sudation, suppuration, sweating, tanning, tearing, tears, transpiration, uptake, ventilation, vermiculation, watering, weeping |
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4. | activity (state) (chemistry) the capacity of a substance to take part in a chemical reaction |
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| Samples | Catalytic activity.
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| Broader (hypernym) | capability, capacity |
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| Domain category | chemical science, chemistry |
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5. | activity (process) a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings) |
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| Samples | The action of natural forces. Volcanic activity.
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| Synonyms | action, natural action, natural process |
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| Broader (hypernym) | physical process, process |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | 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 |
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6. | activity (attribute) the trait of being active; moving or acting rapidly and energetically |
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| Samples | The level of activity declines with age.
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| Synonyms | activeness |
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| Broader (hypernym) | trait |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | animation, brio, dynamism, invigoration, oomph, pizzaz, pizzazz, spiritedness, vivification, zing |
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| Attribute | active, active, inactive |
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| Antonyms | inertia, inactiveness, inactivity |
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