| 单词 | action |
| 释义 | Word Frequency action(ˈækʃən) noun 1. the state or process of doing something or being active; operation 2. something done, such as an act or deed 3. movement or posture during some physical activity 4. activity, force, or energy a man of action 5. (usually plural) conduct or behaviour 6. law a. a legal proceeding brought by one party against another, seeking redress of a wrong or recovery of what is due; lawsuit b. the right to bring such a proceeding 7. the operating mechanism, esp in a piano, gun, watch, etc 8. (of a guitar) the distance between the strings and the fingerboard 9. (of keyboard instruments) the sensitivity of the keys to touch 10. the force applied to a body the reaction is equal and opposite to the action 11. the way in which something operates or works 12. out of action 13. physics a. a property of a system expressed as twice the mean kinetic energy of the system over a given time interval multiplied by the time interval b. the product of work or energy and time, usually expressed in joule seconds Planck's constant of action 14. the events that form the plot of a story, film, play, or other composition 15. military a. a minor engagement b. fighting at sea or on land he saw action in the war 16. philosophy behaviour which is voluntary and explicable in terms of the agent's reasons, as contrasted with that which is coerced or determined causally 17. British short for industrial action 18. informal the profits of an enterprise or transaction (esp in the phrase a piece of the action) 19. slang the main activity, esp social activity verb (transitive) 20. to put into effect; take action concerning matters decided at the meeting cannot be actioned until the following week exclamation 21. a command given by a film director to indicate that filming is to begin See also cue1 (sense 8) Word origin C14: accioun, ultimately from Latin āctiōn-, stem of āctiō, from agere to do, act |
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