Definition of action

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Action (n.) A suit or process, by which a demand is made of a right in a court of justice; in a broad sense, a judicial proceeding for the enforcement or protection of a right, the redress or prevention of a wrong, or the punishment of a public offense..

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Lazy :: Lazy (superl.) Disinclined to action or exertion; averse to labor; idle; shirking work.
Delirium :: Delirium (n.) A state in which the thoughts, expressions, and actions are wild, irregular, and incoherent; mental aberration; a roving or wandering of the mind, -- usually dependent on a fever or some other disease, and so distinguished from mania, or madness..
Shrinkage :: Shrinkage (n.) The act of shrinking; a contraction into less bulk or measurement.
Fry :: Fry (v. i.) To undergo or cause a disturbing action accompanied with a sensation of heat.
Addition :: Addition (n.) The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution.
Excusable :: Excusable (a.) That may be excused, forgiven, justified, or acquitted of blame; pardonable; as, the man is excusable; an excusable action..
Magnetism :: Magnetism (n.) Power of attraction; power to excite the feelings and to gain the affections.
Ciceronian :: Ciceronian (a.) Resembling Cicero in style or action; eloquent.
Exacerbation :: Exacerbation (n.) A periodical increase of violence in a disease, as in remittent or continious fever; an increased energy of diseased and painful action..
Action :: Action (n.) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds; hence, in the plural, equivalent to stocks..
Plan :: Plan (a.) A scheme devised; a method of action or procedure expressed or described in language; a project; as, the plan of a constitution; the plan of an expedition..
Actuation :: Actuation (n.) A bringing into action; movement.
Brevity :: Brevity (n.) Contraction into few words; conciseness.
Adjourn :: Adjourn (v. t.) To put off or defer to another day, or indefinitely; to postpone; to close or suspend for the day; -- commonly said of the meeting, or the action, of convened body; as, to adjourn the meeting; to adjourn a debate..
Attack :: Attack (n.) The beginning of corrosive, decomposing, or destructive action, by a chemical agent..
Aplomb :: Aplomb (n.) Assurance of manner or of action; self-possession.
Ta''en :: Ta'en () p. p. of Ta, to take, or a contraction of Taken..
Eolian :: Eolian (a.) Formed, or deposited, by the action of wind, as dunes..
Best :: Best (n.) Utmost; highest endeavor or state; most nearly perfect thing, or being, or action; as, to do one's best; to the best of our ability..
Polarization :: Polarization (n.) An effect produced upon the plates of a voltaic battery, or the electrodes in an electrolytic cell, by the deposition upon them of the gases liberated by the action of the current. It is chiefly due to the hydrogen, and results in an increase of the resistance, and the setting up of an opposing electro-motive force, both of which tend materially to weaken the current of the battery, or that passing through the cell..
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