Definition of action

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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..

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Alternative :: Alternative (n.) The course of action or the thing offered in place of another.
Wash :: Wash (n.) The backward current or disturbed water caused by the action of oars, or of a steamer's screw or paddles, etc..
Prove :: Prove (v. t.) To test, evince, ascertain, or verify, as the correctness of any operation or result; thus, in subtraction, if the difference between two numbers, added to the lesser number, makes a sum equal to the greater, the correctness of the subtraction is proved..
Pearlash :: Pearlash (n.) A white amorphous or granular substance which consists principally of potassium carbonate, and has a strong alkaline reaction. It is obtained by lixiviating wood ashes, and evaporating the lye, and has been an important source of potassium compounds. It is used in making soap, glass, etc..
Glyoxaline :: Glyoxaline (n.) A white, crystalline, organic base, C3H4N2, produced by the action of ammonia on glyoxal, and forming the origin of a large class of derivatives hence, any one of the series of which glyoxaline is a type; -- called also oxaline..
Tonicity :: Tonicity (n.) The state of healthy tension or partial contraction of muscle fibers while at rest; tone; tonus.
''t Is :: 'T is () A common contraction of it is.
Derange :: Derange (v. t.) To disturb in the orderly or normal action of the intellect; to render insane.
Willow :: Willow (n.) A machine in which cotton or wool is opened and cleansed by the action of long spikes projecting from a drum which revolves within a box studded with similar spikes; -- probably so called from having been originally a cylindrical cage made of willow rods, though some derive the term from winnow, as denoting the winnowing, or cleansing, action of the machine. Called also willy, twilly, twilly devil, and devil..
Screw :: Screw (v. i.) To use violent mans in making exactions; to be oppressive or exacting.
Suit :: Suit (v. t.) To fit; to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as, to suit the action to the word..
Dyspeptone :: Dyspeptone (n.) An insoluble albuminous body formed from casein and other proteid substances by the action of gastric juice.
Diabolism :: Diabolism (n.) Character, action, or principles appropriate to the devil..
Strip :: Strip (v. t.) To remove the metal coating from (a plated article), as by acids or electrolytic action..
Stibious :: Stibine (n.) Antimony hydride, or hydrogen antimonide, a colorless gas produced by the action of nascent hydrogen on antimony. It has a characteristic odor and burns with a characteristic greenish flame. Formerly called also antimoniureted hydrogen..
Stomaching :: Stomachic (n.) A medicine that strengthens the stomach and excites its action.
Psycho-motor :: Psycho-motor (a.) Of or pertaining to movement produced by action of the mind or will.
Change :: Change (v. t.) A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; a building appropriated for mercantile transactions.
Appetency :: Appetency (n.) Specifically: An instinctive inclination or propensity in animals to perform certain actions, as in the young to suck, in aquatic fowls to enter into water and to swim; the tendency of an organized body to seek what satisfies the wants of its organism..
Reach :: Reach (n.) The power of stretching out or extending action, influence, or the like; power of attainment or management; extent of force or capacity..
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