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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
action
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a libel action/case/trial (=a court case against someone for libel)
a plan of action
▪ Ministers are discussing a plan of action to deal with the crisis.
action point
action replay
▪ an action replay of the week we spent in Jamaica
action stations
▪ Crew, return to action stations!
affirmative action
an action plan
▪ My accountant developed a detailed action plan with specific targets.
appropriate action
▪ I can assure you that appropriate action will be taken.
call for action
▪ The European Parliament have called for action on age discrimination.
capillary action
class action
▪ class-action lawsuits
combined effort/action/operation
▪ Dinner was a combined effort.
concrete action
▪ In order to solve this problem, the government must take concrete action.
corrective action/measures
▪ corrective measures to deal with the country’s serious economic decline
court action (=a court case)
▪ He was threatened with court action.
decisive action
▪ a talent for quick decisive action
decisive action/steps
▪ We will take decisive steps towards political union with Europe.
direct action
▪ Peaceful direct action by pressure groups has a powerful effect on public opinion.
disciplinary action (=things you do to punish someone)
▪ The investigation led to disciplinary action against two officers.
drastic action/measures
▪ NATO threatened drastic action if its terms were not met.
effective action
▪ The police must take effective action to protect the public.
galvanized...into action
▪ The possibility of defeat finally galvanized us into action.
get a piece of the action
▪ And will foreign firms get a piece of the action?
immediate action
▪ They promise immediate action to help the unemployed.
industrial action
military action
▪ The government has threatened to take military action if the rebels do not withdraw from the area.
no further action
▪ We have decided to take no further action.
perform an action
▪ The children sing and perform the actions to nursery songs.
political action committee
preventive action/measure
▪ While travelling abroad, take preventive measures to avoid illness.
prod...into action
▪ The strike may prod the government into action.
punitive action/measures etc
▪ The agency sent a letter, but took no punitive action.
shocked into action
▪ She was shocked into action by the desperate situation in the orphanages.
spurred...into action
▪ It was an article in the local newspaper which finally spurred him into action.
strike action (=a strike)
▪ Hospital workers have voted in favour of strike action.
urgent action
▪ Urgent action is needed to boost employment.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
affirmative
▪ Indeed, equal opportunity policies, and strategies of affirmative action, can be built into selective assessments.
▪ Immediate business goals will supersede long-term goals for affirmative action.
▪ Poor blacks dislike the Republican attack on welfare; rich blacks resent the Republican criticism of affirmative action.
▪ Last year the court narrowed the scope of affirmative action programs that give minorities preference in such matters as employment and education.
▪ For some individuals, affirmative action may still do more good than harm.
▪ Recent Supreme Court decisions have put limits on the use of affirmative action to assure diversity in student bodies.
▪ Dole also switched his position on affirmative action, saying he wanted to dismantle a program he previously supported.
▪ The increasing hostility to affirmative action has rubbed off on the diversity movement.
appropriate
▪ He also has the responsibility of deciding the appropriate action for changes where rejection would be contentious.
▪ In its extreme form, the domain of appropriate state action is reduced to almost nothing, a perspective usually termed libertarianism.
▪ The Head of Department in consultation with the Dean is responsible for recommending appropriate action in cases of suspected cheating or plagiarism by students.
▪ The Domain of State Action One other way of characterizing the state is to define its appropriate domain of action.
▪ She can avoid punishment by appropriate actions.
▪ The change in signal frequency is identified by the software and appropriate action taken.
▪ And all creatures who hear it in time take their own appropriate, evasive action.
▪ This information could then be used by those controlling the production process to take appropriate corrective action.
corrective
▪ This information could then be used by those controlling the production process to take appropriate corrective action.
▪ Off the gas, gentle steering correction; the vehicle responds admirably to corrective action.
▪ Putting things right, of course, is integral to quality improvement and this is where the corrective action teams come in.
▪ Hence the importance of directing part of the control process to the implementation of appropriate corrective action. 4.
▪ Taking Corrective Action Corrective action should be taken if performance falls short of standards and the analysis indicates that action is required.
▪ The relatively continuous use of standard system outputs to determine the necessity for corrective action.
▪ Monitoring the time and budget of each chunk allows us to identify problems and take corrective action.
decisive
▪ No one else could have done this as well as Lanfranc with his orderly mind and power of decisive action.
▪ Conversely, there might be too little capacity for decisive action in a cabinet system when there is no stable majority.
▪ David Oakenson says that if guilt is proved then decisive action should be taken.
▪ Suddenly Newland Archer felt himself impelled to decisive action.
▪ When will the Government take decisive action and end the hell of a mess in that section of industry?
▪ By streamlining operations, they took the proper, decisive action.
▪ Much stronger pressures and probably more decisive action was necessary in these circumstances.
▪ Scottsdale voters took the most decisive action last May, approving a sales-tax increase to buy land in the McDowell Mountains.
direct
▪ This is demonstrably untrue; the number of direct actions continues in an upwards spiral.
▪ Consequently, nonviolent direct action as a strategy endured.
▪ Before this period, behavior has always been a direct action of the child on objects.
▪ Soon direct action civil rights protesters were busily working with the administration to register voters.
▪ A couple of the more radical organisations have said they respect a diversity of tactics ranging from popular education to direct action.
▪ In terms of dealing with the mistaken image of you, there is not much direct action to take.
disciplinary
▪ They fear that such schemes could lead to disciplinary action against sub-standard teachers and to the beginnings of a merit pay system.
▪ Warnings, disciplinary actions, and firings were commonplace.
▪ Any abuse of the Flexible Working Hours facility can result in its withdrawal, in addition to any disciplinary action which may be taken.
▪ We will take disciplinary action against you screamers.
▪ For the council's works committee is to consider taking disciplinary action against employees who made serious corruption allegations against senior officials.
▪ A lower federal court ruled that, irrespective of the circumstances, such disciplinary action is never permitted without a prior hearing.
▪ We may also consider taking disciplinary action.
▪ Adultery rather than years of abusiveness towards his wife prompted the church board to take disciplinary action against her husband.
further
▪ No further action is planned by them at the moment.
▪ The heat grows rapidly; the fumes no doubt hinder any further action.
▪ On Dec. 10 the Serious Fraud Office confirmed that it would not be taking further action.
▪ His report will be passed to the Area Manager, who will decide whether any further action is to be taken.
▪ Following the new allegations against her a further action was taken.
▪ An action committee over 20 strong was elected at the meeting to decide further action.
▪ The question then is to decide on the basis of observation whether further action is appropriate.
▪ Canopies: These respond well to the spray-wipe technique using a solvent degreaser often without any further action.
immediate
▪ Few in the scientific community would argue that the scientific evidence justifies immediate extremely drastic action.
▪ The message you conveyed to me was clear: immediate action must be taken.
▪ During preceding periods, actions of the child were always dependent on the immediate actions in the environment.
▪ They say they now want their employers to take immediate action.
▪ She said she reported the incident to the company's equal employment opportunity manager, who took no immediate action.
▪ Neil Kinnock Immediate action for national recovery Britain faces a huge task of national reconstruction.
▪ Following an hourlong hearing, a three-member panel of judges took no immediate action on the lawsuit.
industrial
▪ The favoured strategy so far has been to introduce a cooling-off period before industrial action could be taken.
▪ More trade-union sponsored Labour candidates were put forward in the 1929 General Election as unions recognized the failure of industrial action.
▪ But after 1979 levels of industrial action steadily climbed.
▪ There was a threat of industrial action against Mercury's shareholders.
▪ There have been frequent disagreements over the use of industrial action to bolster annual negotiations.
▪ The vendor will be required to warrant that no industrial action has been taken or threatened in the last few years.
▪ Up to 1925, however, industrial action had not appeared to work and threatening postures had not generally been successful against employers.
▪ The council says the withholding of poll tax payments and industrial action by treasury staff have made it difficult to collect money.
legal
▪ Mr Widmer said there seemed little hope of reaching a settlement before Caldaire turned to legal action.
▪ They will threaten legal action for nonpayment.
▪ He will avoid legal action 6.
▪ But of the 28,000 names affected by this scandal, 16,000 are currently taking legal action.
▪ That's where legal expenses insurance helps - it protects against the cost of taking legal action.
▪ Any discussion of legal action must be preceded by a caveat on costs.
▪ I hope that the Minister will take the necessary legal action.
military
▪ In relative terms, Britain was shown to be a middle-ranking power with her ability to take independent military action strictly limited.
▪ Compared with the early brutal and bloody encounters, the military action was relatively swift and effective.
▪ On the one hand military action must be pursued with maximum efficiency, defined by military criteria.
▪ Most of its partisans had focused mainly on military actions, neglecting political efforts necessary to mobilize mass support.
▪ Both organizations demanded his return to power, while not endorsing military action.
▪ Carter ordered the Pentagon to prepare a contingency plan for military action to rescue the hostages.
▪ Earlier, Selby's brother Jon expressed fears that the authorities were planning military action.
▪ Virtually everyone agrees that if there is to be any military action in Bosnia it must be accompanied by a congressional resolution.
political
▪ Pessimism about the possibilities of political action is not justified.
▪ Apart from voting, what political action do you think is most important? 3.
▪ Rather than suffer privately, Mrs Sadoff decided to take political action.
▪ The political action that has been studied most extensively is the act of voting.
▪ That bill, which died, also would have capped the amount political action committees could contribute to candidates.
▪ Chapter 3 will then undertake a similar examination of individual political action and of the activities of groups in the political world.
positive
▪ For the bold punter, a bid above 100p is unlikely without some signs of positive management action to stabilise cash flow.
▪ None the less, no positive action to improve race relations in Washington was taken.
▪ A number of examples of positive action in different countries are noted.
▪ In other states, the school board may have to take some positive action for the teacher to achieve tenure.
▪ Carl is a man of clipped sentences and positive, energetic action.
▪ If we can take positive action to improve communication, then the whole community will benefit.
▪ She loved electricity -- ghost spirits in positive action.
responsible
▪ Given the knowledge it is always possible to hold some one responsible for their actions.
▪ My thought is not your though; you are not responsible for my actions.
▪ The demonstrators were therefore in the wrong and the union could properly be held responsible for their actions.
▪ Rumor: Sometimes no one is responsible for the action.
▪ It would deny that men are responsible for their actions, make evil into a positive force.
▪ They have little or no control over the institutions around them, and are not asked to take their own responsible actions.
▪ She was not responsible for the actions of her male relatives.
▪ In fact, you need the first person when you or your organization is responsible for an action.
tough
▪ Police have now warned of tough action against plans to hold any future rave parties.
▪ Law and order, to take an important example, wins few votes except by the threat of tough actions and crackdowns.
▪ He called for tougher action by police on motorists who illegally park in and around existing bus stops.
▪ Ten consumer groups, along with some veterinarians and meat inspectors, are urging even tougher action.
▪ The basic obstacles to tougher judiciary action are twofold, officials say.
▪ On machines however, a tough rearguard action was fought by the employers.
▪ We want to restore the good image of football. Tough action has cut down football hooliganism.
urgent
▪ At a special meeting with the minister, an all-party delegation from the capital's boroughs will press for urgent action.
▪ Earlier this year Aberconwy Community Health Council called for urgent action to tackle the situation.
▪ Change tack immediately and take urgent action to get some talented protégés into your fast lane.
▪ But the law-abiding people of Dundalk agree urgent action needs to be taken.
▪ Please give this URGENT consideration and action. 3.
▪ After 10 years nothing had happened, so in 1968 the Institute of Trademarks Agents called for urgent action.
▪ Occasionally, severe shocks will rock the system and urgent action will be needed.
▪ Also alleging rape and torture, Amnesty urged the government to take urgent action against the security forces.
■ NOUN
class
▪ The lawsuit later became a class action, representing about 1, 400 current and former black Texaco employees.
▪ A class action can drive you crazy.
▪ Sucharow, which represented some of the investors in the class action.
▪ A settlement is pending in a recent class action suit against Greyhound.
▪ The law also restricts extra payments to shareholders named in class actions.
▪ The bill effectively bars migrants from joining class action suits that challenge practices of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
committee
▪ Students' action committees began coordinating demonstrations and contacting workers' organizations.
▪ As governor, Weld has shunned political action committee contributions.
▪ By forming action committees, names are starting to fight back.
▪ Political action committees can be a huge problem for challengers in federal races.
▪ The bill would also ban political action committee contributions to federal candidates.
▪ His political action committee chipped in to numerous campaigns.
▪ The Clinton campaign does not accept money from political action committees through which teacher unions funnel their contributions.
▪ Unlike a business corporation or labor union, a charity may not sponsor or support a political action committee.
court
▪ The Financial Statement was a voluntary arrangement, which aimed to avoid court action.
▪ The court action continues Burroughs' exclusive hold on the drug through at least 2005.
▪ The Commission said this was insufficient and is considering court action.
▪ It would take another protracted court action and many years of protest before the Front finally wound down.
▪ A bank is taking court action over the former Tory Party chairman's half a million pound overdraft.
▪ And if these applications were not approved then the council could face court action from numerous groups.
▪ Thus an expert's decision obtained after the limitation period will not be enforceable by court action: see Chapter 12.
▪ Two cases have been referred to arbitration, up to six more are the subject of court action.
group
▪ Members of a local action group say this isn't good enough.
▪ Political action groups lay in wait for companies that stumble in their conduct and treatment of multiple stake-holders.
▪ Indeed, action groups have been formed and petitions signed.
▪ Under the Apostolic listing are prison visiting, family contacts, catechism classes, Catholic action groups and Sunday schools.
▪ The parents and their action group had been free to talk to the press.
▪ The action group is likely to recommend crowded roads such as Park Lane and the A1 route into the city.
▪ Find out from your Local Council or recycling action group where your nearest collection points are for glass, metals and paper.
libel
▪ His success in the fraudulent libel action against the Star newspaper undoubtedly frightened off a lot of the media.
▪ Damages Damages in libel actions are difficult to predict.
▪ Absence of legal aid A libel action is the only important civil right for which legal aid is not available.
▪ The New Statesman itself and Scallywag have indicated they will contest the libel actions still pending against them.
▪ The 36-year-old blonde beauty was unable to hide her bitter disappointment at failing to win her libel action against the People.
plan
▪ Mr Dunion praised the charter's sentiments but criticised its lack of a firm action plan.
▪ I proceeded to come up with an affirmative action plan for the company that would work.
▪ Definition of priorities empowers the next stage - an action plan.
▪ Students will work towards fixed targets regarding the above, but will also negotiate individual action plans.
▪ It produced a 13-point action plan to reduce the risk of marine pollution.
▪ The plan is the action plan for a great deal of thinking that has been going on.
▪ Sets out an action plan, with practical advice on managing changing demand at the neighbourhood level.
▪ Saturday you have to convince a partner or boss of the value of an action plan.
strike
▪ Interfax reported on May 13 that the health unions would postpone strike action until Aug. 1.
▪ What is the point of a legal framework if companies can not get a court injunction to stop illegal strike action?
▪ At the end of October, egged on by rank-and-file demands for an eight-hour day, the Soviet endorsed renewed strike action.
▪ The remaining members will be balloted on strike action within the next few days.
▪ Moreover, strike action could be counterproductive.
▪ Earlier in the dispute, calls for all-out national strike action had been rejected on Jan. 23 by national union leaders.
▪ The cost is more than made up for by the fact that virtually no man-hours are lost through strike action.
▪ By 1914, strike action was running at a rate comparable to that of 1905.
■ VERB
bring
▪ Also, there are clear benefits from bringing proposed actions together in a formal strategic analysis and long-term financial plan.
▪ Individuals may also bring a private civil action against an employer for violations.
▪ This entitled them to bring a patent action against the buyers to enforce the patent.
▪ She brought an assault action against Caan but later dropped the charge.
▪ Only a society in which people feel secure in their peer groups can bring about such mass action from below.
▪ The council is the plaintiff, but it has brought this action to protect the interests of the residents.
▪ You ought to have instructed your attorney to bring an action against the hawker for criminal conversation with your wife.
▪ Bowaters told the plaintiffs and they brought an action against officers of the unions to which the drivers and loaders belonged.
defend
▪ The rent reviewer sought to defend an action for negligence on the basis that he was an arbitrator or quasi-arbitrator.
▪ The book consisted of eighteen chapters; each defended his actions in what purported to be his own words.
▪ Jacob has defended the action, saying she supports the panel but questions the amount of money it spends.
▪ Such an order would prevent the defendants using that information for any purpose of defending an action in the Commercial Court.
▪ Many organisations seemed to have an in-built reluctance to defend their actions or even to provide a constructive and forceful image.
▪ It is further acknowledged that each of the parties shall indemnify me for all reasonable costs of defending such actions and proceedings.
justify
▪ Moreover, there were still jurists prepared to justify such action.
▪ The issues to be decided are contemporary as are the actors with motives or ideas to guide or justify action.
▪ In both instances the general test should be whether there was some reasonable or sufficient evidence to justify the action.
▪ Baer promptly did so, hiding behind a cloud of legalese to justify his action.
▪ Should any relative complain, the doctor may rely upon the directive as justifying his actions.
▪ Highways chiefs say there is no evidence to justify action being taken in Lily Road, Litherland.
▪ I wrote to the Secretary of State, but he has not even begun to justify the Government's action.
▪ If so, ask them how they can justify such action.
require
▪ Achieving environmentally-sustainable mobility must include an expanded role for public transport, and requires many kinds of action.
▪ Taking Corrective Action Corrective action should be taken if performance falls short of standards and the analysis indicates that action is required.
▪ The orders did not require such action to be taken.
▪ Does the bedrock constitutional principle of equal protection for all require affirmative action, merely allow it, or even prohibit it?
▪ Again, advice and assistance may be different with the latter requiring some positive action on behalf of the client.
▪ The children are required to perform these actions as they hear the teacher's instructions.
▪ It does not require any action by the state Legislature.
take
▪ It could never take regulatory action on the basis of a criticism or a complaint alone.
▪ Fujisaki did not take action against any of the civil trial jurors.
▪ This means that if the voluntary sector does not take action, virtually nothing gets done.
▪ It would take another protracted court action and many years of protest before the Front finally wound down.
▪ Unless there's a positive answer, the Profitboss will take positive action to eliminate the non-contributing resource.
▪ The commission allowed their deadline to pass without taking action, which clears the companies to proceed.
▪ A trader knowledgeable of such developments can take appropriate action.
▪ It observed, and noted, and took no action, as the visitor checked its speed with jets of incandescent gas.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a piece of the action
▪ After five years in middle management, I'm ready for a real piece of the action.
▪ A police station, so help me, is a piece of the action.
▪ But the General wanted a piece of the action.
▪ But the real race is to adapt the superbike for road use before rivals grab a piece of the action.
▪ His successors never again ran the town, as he did, but they always had a piece of the action.
▪ It's not only the players who want a piece of the action.
▪ Nation shall speak peace unto nation, and I shall grab a piece of the action.
▪ Or did evil Uncle Humbert destroy it, because under the law he would then get a piece of the action?
▪ Will foreign firms get a piece of the action?
concerted effort/action/attack etc
▪ As part of a concerted effort to reinvigorate residential communities, 2, 000 new houses have sprung up since 1990.
▪ He said the pledge was meaningless unless a concerted effort was made to find legislative time for outstanding recommendations.
▪ However, with a concerted effort, this research could be completed within 2 years.
▪ If we are going to maintain the modern world, then concerted action for the future is urgently needed.
▪ Prompt response to requests would help to ease the pressure as would a concerted effort being made to increase membership.
▪ She has also made a concerted effort to improve her knowledge.
▪ The end of the story, of course, is that the students' concerted efforts around the nation worked.
▪ This change is part of a concerted effort to raise our profile with our international customers.
fight a rearguard action
▪ A rearguard action is being fought against the sale of the land for business development.
▪ With their captain and inspiration, Roy Aitken, suspended, Saints seemed to have come prepared to fight a rearguard action.
legal action/proceedings
▪ But, as Kim Barnes reports, Lexie McConnell's family say it won't stop their legal action for negligence.
▪ He is is now planning legal action to get compensation.
▪ Quiet diplomacy was out; legal action was in.
▪ That's where legal expenses insurance helps - it protects against the cost of taking legal action.
▪ The authorities considered these cases suitable for civil, not criminal, legal proceedings.
▪ The company expected legal action, and it got it.
▪ The Scheme makes no difference to an employee's rights to take legal action, and the Company accepts no liability.
▪ This broadly relates to communications between lawyer and client either in relation to the giving of legal advice or in contemplation of legal proceedings.
missing in action
▪ Discussion covered procedures for avoiding accidental clashes, disclosing the location of mines, and exchanging information about those missing in action.
▪ For investors, the realization that inflation remains missing in action is a positive.
▪ For the past decade, Gabe Kaplan has been missing in action from the entertainment trenches.
▪ Kip was never finally listed as killed or missing in action.
▪ Woodson has been missing in action completely since tearing up his knee in the season opener.
put sth into action/effect/practice
▪ Forest managers have been slow to put the plan into practice.
▪ But he came gradually to see its viability and to contemplate ways of putting it into practice.
▪ But there is a long way to go before he establishes a stable government that can put these qualities into action.
▪ Charles, however, was determined to use the farm at Highgrove as a model to put his ideas into practice.
▪ Guide us to recognise how great are your resources, and inspire us to put your plans into action.
▪ If so, he was about to have an opportunity to put it into practice.
▪ It's time to put his theories into practice and find out the reality.
▪ The next stage is to implement it or put it into action.
▪ The next step is to put them into practice.
reflex action
▪ As the knife entered her she seemed to try to double up, but it was only a reflex action.
▪ By reflex action - a mechanism of the nervous system - the threatened hand is instantly withdrawn and the threatened eye closed.
▪ He caught her arm in mid-air, a deceptively lazy reflex action, his fingers biting into her forearm.
▪ His reflex action was to bend and swing round violently, and I was thrown to the ground.
▪ In a smooth, reflex action honed by years of practice, I say no.
▪ The reflex action at this point is to descend into cynicism.
▪ We then moved close and fired from the hip and shoulder in reflex action shooting.
▪ You develop a reflex action of reaching for the bowl.
spring into action
▪ Bellas and her crew sprang into action.
▪ Faced with such an unprecedented threat, Church leaders sprang into action.
▪ He sprang into action when wife Ann, 26, suddenly went into labour in the middle of the night.
▪ Ten-mile tailbacks blocked roads as bargain hunters sprang into action after three days at home.
▪ The brave granny sprang into action when she heard Kathleen Wallace scream.
▪ The six kids who have organized this trip spring into action.
▪ When a black freshman is threatened with racist graffiti, she is the first to spring into action.
▪ You know, lulling you to sleep before springing into action.
swing into action
▪ All this would have rotted away had the rescue operation not swung into action.
▪ The doctor examined her, found a faint pulse, and immediately swung into action to resuscitate the patient.
▪ The first battalion of boffins will swing into action this August.
▪ The moment the shooting was reported, they swung into action.
▪ The nights really begin to swing into action with regular party nights in the bar.
▪ Throughout the region voluntary agencies like the Red Cross are swinging into action.
▪ When he swings into action on the water, Kerton is one of the fastest men afloat.
▪ Whenever the laws of any state are broken, a duly authorized organization swings into action.
take evasive action
▪ A party of puffins had to take evasive action as they nearly flew into the side of the ship.
▪ He could neither move to attack nor take evasive action.
▪ He says they picked it up on the radar and had to take evasive action.
▪ If the Nations Air crew had been alerted, it might not have had to take evasive action.
▪ Not bad for a graduate in literature and one who normally took evasive action at the sight of a screwdriver.
▪ The alarm call stimulates other nearby blackbirds to take evasive action.
▪ The military experts taught her how to take evasive action and speed away from danger.
▪ When the current recession gripped, they decided to take evasive action.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an action-adventure movie
▪ Bedell's financial problems do not excuse his actions.
▪ Ben's prompt action probably saved my life.
▪ It's been politics as usual - all talk and no action.
▪ Some senators are urging military action.
▪ Strong action is needed to restore law and order.
▪ the action of the heart
▪ The agency has promised action on the pollution problem for years, but nothing has happened.
▪ The child could not be held responsible for his actions.
▪ The clock's action needs to be adjusted.
▪ the horse's trotting action
▪ The rock had been worn away by the action of the falling water.
▪ There was only one possible course of action - he had to resign.
▪ When the action ended, there were terrible losses on both sides.
▪ You can't be blamed for the actions of your parents.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But the betting is the central bank will take no action on interest rates at that time.
▪ Eventually we must try to decide whether even these theories are rich enough to govern the actions of our brains and minds.
▪ In bringing this action, we did what we had to do.
▪ It's got a repeating action.
▪ Jansen recounts the battle by describing the action on a pair of screens that the winner gave his daughter.
▪ The manager is master only of his actions, not the outcomes of those actions.
▪ These actions followed a Journal article in August that raised questions about the accuracy of company statements about its business affairs.
II.verb
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a piece of the action
▪ After five years in middle management, I'm ready for a real piece of the action.
▪ A police station, so help me, is a piece of the action.
▪ But the General wanted a piece of the action.
▪ But the real race is to adapt the superbike for road use before rivals grab a piece of the action.
▪ His successors never again ran the town, as he did, but they always had a piece of the action.
▪ It's not only the players who want a piece of the action.
▪ Nation shall speak peace unto nation, and I shall grab a piece of the action.
▪ Or did evil Uncle Humbert destroy it, because under the law he would then get a piece of the action?
▪ Will foreign firms get a piece of the action?
concerted effort/action/attack etc
▪ As part of a concerted effort to reinvigorate residential communities, 2, 000 new houses have sprung up since 1990.
▪ He said the pledge was meaningless unless a concerted effort was made to find legislative time for outstanding recommendations.
▪ However, with a concerted effort, this research could be completed within 2 years.
▪ If we are going to maintain the modern world, then concerted action for the future is urgently needed.
▪ Prompt response to requests would help to ease the pressure as would a concerted effort being made to increase membership.
▪ She has also made a concerted effort to improve her knowledge.
▪ The end of the story, of course, is that the students' concerted efforts around the nation worked.
▪ This change is part of a concerted effort to raise our profile with our international customers.
fight a rearguard action
▪ A rearguard action is being fought against the sale of the land for business development.
▪ With their captain and inspiration, Roy Aitken, suspended, Saints seemed to have come prepared to fight a rearguard action.
legal action/proceedings
▪ But, as Kim Barnes reports, Lexie McConnell's family say it won't stop their legal action for negligence.
▪ He is is now planning legal action to get compensation.
▪ Quiet diplomacy was out; legal action was in.
▪ That's where legal expenses insurance helps - it protects against the cost of taking legal action.
▪ The authorities considered these cases suitable for civil, not criminal, legal proceedings.
▪ The company expected legal action, and it got it.
▪ The Scheme makes no difference to an employee's rights to take legal action, and the Company accepts no liability.
▪ This broadly relates to communications between lawyer and client either in relation to the giving of legal advice or in contemplation of legal proceedings.
missing in action
▪ Discussion covered procedures for avoiding accidental clashes, disclosing the location of mines, and exchanging information about those missing in action.
▪ For investors, the realization that inflation remains missing in action is a positive.
▪ For the past decade, Gabe Kaplan has been missing in action from the entertainment trenches.
▪ Kip was never finally listed as killed or missing in action.
▪ Woodson has been missing in action completely since tearing up his knee in the season opener.
reflex action
▪ As the knife entered her she seemed to try to double up, but it was only a reflex action.
▪ By reflex action - a mechanism of the nervous system - the threatened hand is instantly withdrawn and the threatened eye closed.
▪ He caught her arm in mid-air, a deceptively lazy reflex action, his fingers biting into her forearm.
▪ His reflex action was to bend and swing round violently, and I was thrown to the ground.
▪ In a smooth, reflex action honed by years of practice, I say no.
▪ The reflex action at this point is to descend into cynicism.
▪ We then moved close and fired from the hip and shoulder in reflex action shooting.
▪ You develop a reflex action of reaching for the bowl.
take evasive action
▪ A party of puffins had to take evasive action as they nearly flew into the side of the ship.
▪ He could neither move to attack nor take evasive action.
▪ He says they picked it up on the radar and had to take evasive action.
▪ If the Nations Air crew had been alerted, it might not have had to take evasive action.
▪ Not bad for a graduate in literature and one who normally took evasive action at the sight of a screwdriver.
▪ The alarm call stimulates other nearby blackbirds to take evasive action.
▪ The military experts taught her how to take evasive action and speed away from danger.
▪ When the current recession gripped, they decided to take evasive action.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Action

Action \Ac"tion\, n. [OF. action, L. actio, fr. agere to do. See Act.]

  1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of power exerted on one body by another; agency; activity; operation; as, the action of heat; a man of action.

    One wise in council, one in action brave.
    --Pope.

  2. An act; a thing done; a deed; an enterprise. (pl.): Habitual deeds; hence, conduct; behavior; demeanor.

    The Lord is a Good of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
    --1 Sam. ii.

  3. 3. The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.

  4. Movement; as, the horse has a spirited action.

  5. (Mech.) Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun.

  6. (Physiol.) Any one of the active processes going on in an organism; the performance of a function; as, the action of the heart, the muscles, or the gastric juice.

  7. (Orat.) Gesticulation; the external deportment of the speaker, or the suiting of his attitude, voice, gestures, and countenance, to the subject, or to the feelings.

  8. (Paint. & Sculp.) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.

  9. (Law)

    1. 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.

    2. A right of action; as, the law gives an action for every claim.

  10. (Com.) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds; hence, in the plural, equivalent to stocks. [A Gallicism] [Obs.]

    The Euripus of funds and actions.
    --Burke.

  11. An engagement between troops in war, whether on land or water; a battle; a fight; as, a general action, a partial action.

  12. (Music) The mechanical contrivance by means of which the impulse of the player's finger is transmitted to the strings of a pianoforte or to the valve of an organ pipe.
    --Grove.

    Chose in action. (Law) See Chose.

    Quantity of action (Physics), the product of the mass of a body by the space it runs through, and its velocity.

    Syn: Action, Act.

    Usage: In many cases action and act are synonymous; but some distinction is observable. Action involves the mode or process of acting, and is usually viewed as occupying some time in doing. Act has more reference to the effect, or the operation as complete.

    To poke the fire is an act, to reconcile friends who have quarreled is a praiseworthy action.
    --C. J. Smith.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
action

mid-14c., "cause or grounds for a lawsuit," from Anglo-French accioun, Old French accion (12c.) "action, lawsuit, case," from Latin actionem (nominative actio) "a putting in motion; a performing, doing," noun of action from past participle stem of agere "to do" (see act (v.)). Sense of "something done, an act, deed" is late 14c. Meaning "fighting" is from c.1600. As a film director's command, it is attested from 1923. Meaning "excitement" is recorded from 1968. Phrase actions speak louder than words is attested from 1731.

Wiktionary
action

interj. Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually an act or scene of a theatric performance. n. 1 Something done so as to accomplish a purpose. 2 A way of motion or functioning. 3 A fast-paced activity. 4 A mechanism; a moving part or assembly. 5 (context music English): The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano, which transfers the motion of the key to the sound-making device.Marshall Cavendish Corporation p.1079 6 (context slang English) sexual intercourse. 7 The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on the guitar. 8 (context military English) combat. 9 (context legal English) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and ''actio''). 10 (context mathematics English) A mapping from a pairing of mathematical objects to one of them, respecting their individual structures. The pairing is typically a Cartesian product or a tensor product. The object that is not part of the output is said to ''act'' on the other object. In any given context, ''action'' is used as an abbreviation for a more fully named notion, like group action or ''left'' group action. 11 The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events. 12 (context art painting and sculpture English) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted. 13 (context bowling English) spin put on the bowling ball. 14 (context business obsolete a Gallicism English) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds. vb. (context transitive management English) To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.

WordNet
action
  1. v. institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against; "He was warned that the district attorney would process him"; "She actioned the company for discrimination" [syn: sue, litigate, process]

  2. put in effect; "carry out a task"; "execute the decision of the people"; "He actioned the operation" [syn: carry through, accomplish, execute, carry out, fulfill, fulfil]

action
  1. n. something done (usually as opposed to something said); "there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions"

  2. the state of being active; "his sphere of activity"; "he is out of action" [syn: activity, activeness] [ant: inaction, inaction, inaction]

  3. 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 [syn: legal action, action at law]

  4. an act by a government body or supranational organization; "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"

  5. a military engagement; "he saw action in Korea" [syn: military action]

  6. a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings); "the action of natural forces"; "volcanic activity" [syn: natural process, natural action, activity]

  7. the series of events that form a plot; "his novels always have a lot of action"

  8. the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism; "the piano had a very stiff action" [syn: action mechanism]

  9. the trait of being active and energetic and forceful; "a man of action"

  10. the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field; "the action is no longer in technology stocks but in municipal bonds"; "gawkers always try to get as close to the action as possible"

Wikipedia
ACTION

ACTION is a bus service operator in Canberra, Australia.

Action (Canadian TV channel)

Action is a Canadian English language Category B specialty channel owned by Corus Entertainment specializing in films and television series targeting males.

Action (TV series)

Action is an American comedy series about a Hollywood producer named Peter Dragon, who is trying to recover from his last box-office failure. It aired on Fox during the 1999-2000 season. The series was critically praised for its irreverent, and sometimes hostile look at Hollywood culture. Thirteen episodes were produced. The show was created by Chris Thompson and the show runner was Don Reo. Future Saturday Night Live cast member Will Forte was the story editor for twelve episodes, and wrote two.

Action (firearms)

In firearms terminology, an action is the mechanism that handles the ammunition (loads, locks, fires, and extracts the cartridges) or the method by which that mechanism works. Breech-loading weapons have actions; actions are technically not present on muzzleloaders, as all loading is done by hand. The mechanism that fires a muzzle-loader is called the lock.

Actions can be categorized in several ways, including single action versus double action, break action versus bolt action, and others.

Action (physics)

In physics, action is an attribute of the dynamics of a physical system from which the equations of motion of the system can be derived. It is a mathematical functional which takes the trajectory, also called path or history, of the system as its argument and has a real number as its result. Generally, the action takes different values for different paths. Action has the dimensions of [energy[time] or [momentum[length], and its SI unit is joule-second.

Action (comics)

Action was a controversial weekly British anthology comic that was published by IPC Magazines, starting on 14 February 1976.

Concerns over the comic's violent content saw it withdrawn from sale on 16 October 1976. It reappeared the following month, in toned-down form, and continued publication until 12 November 1977, at which point it was merged with Battle Picture Weekly. Despite its short lifespan, Action was highly influential on the British comics scene, and was a direct forerunner of the long-running 2000 AD.

Action (mathematics)

Action may refer to:

Mathematics
  • Group action
    • Continuous group action
  • Monoid or semigroup action
Physics
  • Action (physics)
Action (supermarkets)

Action (formerly Action Food Barns and Action Supermarkets) was an Australian supermarket chain.

Based in Perth, Western Australia, Action had 80 supermarkets across Western Australia, Queensland and New South Wales, and was one of the largest supermarket chains in Australia. Action Supermarkets Head Office was located at 218 Bannister Road Canning Vale WA 6155, Action's Fresh Produce Centre was located at 24 Walters Drive Osborne Park and Meat Centre at Pavers Circle Malaga.

Action (Punchline album)

Action is Punchline's first full-length album on Fueled by Ramen Records. It has notably hopeful and positive lyrics compared to bands with a similar fanbase, in the vein of pop punk and so-called " emo" of the late 1990s and early 2000s. Steve Soboslai (guitar), Paul Menotiades (guitar) and Chris Fafalios (bass guitar) shared vocals on the album, most going to Soboslai. While PJ Caruso (drums) does not sing on the album, the rhythm section is a major driving force of the majority of songs on Action.

Action (literature)

In literature, action is the principle subject or story. This is as distinguished from an incidental episode. In other words, action is what a character does in a play, short story, or a fiction prose. Actions are different from acts, which are any of the main sections of a play or other dramatic performance.

Action (B'z album)

Action is the sixteenth album by Japanese hard rock band B'z, released on December 5, 2007. It sold 292,687 copies in its first week, reaching #1 at Oricon.

The song "Friction" was featured in the PlayStation 2 game Burnout Dominator and It was later featured on Burnout Paradise the song became the band's first English song to be sold in the US though the iTunes Store.

Action (1921 film)

Action is a 1921 American Western film directed by John Ford and featuring Hoot Gibson. It was based on Peter B. Kyne's popular novel The Three Godfathers. The film is considered to be lost. According to contemporaneous newspaper reports, Action was based on J. Allan Dunn's novel, The Mascotte of the Three Star; Mascotte appeared as the lead novel in the pulp magazine Short Stories, February 1921.

Action (philosophy)

An action is something which is done by an agent. In common speech, the term action is often used interchangeably with the term behavior. In the philosophy of action, the behavioural sciences, and the social sciences, however, a distinction is made: behavior is defined as automatic and reflexive activity, while action is defined as intentional, purposive, conscious and subjectively meaningful activity . Thus, throwing a ball is an instance of action; it involves an intention, a goal, and a bodily movement guided by the agent. On the other hand, catching a cold is not considered an action because it is something which happens to a person, not something done by one.

Other events are less clearly defined as actions or not. For instance, distractedly drumming ones fingers on the table seems to fall somewhere in the middle. Deciding to do something might be considered a mental action by some. However, others think it is not an action unless the decision is carried out. Unsuccessfully trying to do something might also not be considered an action for similar reasons (for e.g. lack of bodily movement). It is contentious whether believing, intending, and thinking are actions since they are mental events.

Some would prefer to define actions as requiring bodily movement (see behaviorism). The side effects of actions are considered by some to be part of the action; in an example from Anscombe's manuscript Intention, pumping water can also be an instance of poisoning the inhabitants. This introduces a moral dimension to the discussion (see also Moral agency). If the poisoned water resulted in a death, that death might be considered part of the action of the agent that pumped the water. Whether a side effect is considered part of an action is especially unclear in cases in which the agent isn't aware of the possible side effects. For example, an agent that accidentally cures a person by administering a poison he was intending to kill him with.

A primary concern of philosophy of action is to analyze the nature of actions and distinguish them from similar phenomena. Other concerns include individuating actions, explaining the relationship between actions and their effects, explaining how an action is related to the beliefs and desires which cause and/or justify it (see practical reason), as well as examining the nature of agency. A primary concern is the nature of free will and whether actions are determined by the mental states that precede them (see determinism). Some philosophers (e.g. Donald Davidson) have argued that the mental states the agent invokes as justifying his action are physical states that cause the action. Problems have been raised for this view because the mental states seem to be reduce to mere physical causes. Their mental properties don't seem to be doing any work. If the reasons an agent cites as justifying his action, however, are not the cause of the action, they must explain the action in some other way or be causally impotent.

Action (music)

The action of an instrument plucked by hand is the distance between the fingerboard and the string.

In the guitar and similar instruments, the action is the distance between the fingerboard and the string, which determines how easy it is to sound notes when pressure is applied with the fingertips. Generally a low action is considered to be more playable, due to the lower amount of pressure needed to press the string to the fingerboard. However, if the action is set too low, there is a danger that the vibrating string will strike the frets or fingerboard below it, creating an unwanted buzzing noise (on fretted instruments, this is known as fret buzz). Conversely, if the action is too high, then the strings may be too taut to fully depress.

Action (piano)

The piano action mechanism, or the key action mechanism, or simply the action of a piano or other musical keyboards, is the mechanical assembly which translates the depression of the keys into rapid motion of a hammer, which creates sound by striking the strings. Action can refer to that of a piano or other musical keyboards, including the electronic or digital stage piano and synthesizer, on which some models have "weighted keys", which simulate the touch and feel of an acoustic piano. The design of the key action mechanism determines the "weighted keys" feeling; that is, the feeling of the heaviness of the touch of the keys."A professional pianist is likely to care most about the piano's action, because that is what controls its responsiveness and relative lightness--or heaviness--of touch. Roughly speaking, a piano's action is light when its keys fall easily under the fingers, and heavy when a noticeable downward thrust is required. The action, in short, is what makes a piano playable or not to an individual musician."

Action (French TV channel)

Action is a French television channel which shows action films and TV movies.

Action (Question Mark & the Mysterians album)

Action is the second album by the American garage rock band, Question Mark & the Mysterians, released in 1967.

The album's sleeve notes include facts about the band including their interests. Much of their interests are also the inspiration for many of their songs.

Action (Oscar Peterson album)

Action (also released as Easy Walker!) is a 1968 studio album by Oscar Peterson, the first volume of his Exclusively for My Friends series.

Action (Uppermost album)

Action is the debut album of French electronic artist Uppermost. It was released on CD 19 September 2011 through his label, Uppwind. On 28 November 2011 the album was released on Beatport through Zimbalam and on Amazon through Uppwind. After its digital release, it held the #1 spot on the Beatport electro-house chart in December 2011.

Action (EP)

Action is the first mini-album by South Korean Boy band NU'EST. It was released on July 11, 2012 under Pledis Entertainment.

Action (radio)

Action (aka Action Theater) was a planned 1945 NBC radio anthology series of action-adventure tales. However, the series went no further than the first audition drama, although an announcement on the show reveals an adaptation of Joseph Conrad's "Victory" (with Nancy Kelly and Roger Pryor) was scheduled, along with stories by Ernest Hemingway and Jack London.

Performing before a live studio audience, Jane Wyatt and Robert Lowery starred in the pilot program, "High Explosive", with a supporting cast of Ralph Sanford and Tom Holland. It was adapted by writer-director Maxwell Shane (1905-1983) from Paramount's High Explosive (1943), a film scripted by Shane and Howard J. Green from a story by Joseph Hoffman.

Produced by Irvin Atkins for Radio Creators, "High Explosive" aired January 15, 1945, with music by Gregory Stone. It was introduced by host William Gargan and announcer Art Baker with a commentary by Shane in the middle of the show. Best known in the 1940s for his Big Town screenplays and radio scripts, Shane later scripted City Across the River, the 1949 film of Irving Shulman's The Amboy Dukes, and he was a writer-producer for TV's Thriller (1960-62).

Action (UML)

In the Unified Modeling Language, an action is a named element that is the fundamental unit of executable functionality. The execution of an action represents some transformation or processing in the modeled system. An action execution represents the run-time behavior of executing an action within a specific behavior execution. All action executions will be executions of specific kinds of actions because Action is an abstract class. When the action executes, and what its actual inputs are, is determined by the concrete action and the behaviors in which it is used.

An action is the specification of an executable statement and is the fundamental unit of processing or behavior in an activity node that represents some transformation in the modeled system.

An action forms an abstraction of a computational procedure which is an atomic execution and therefore completes without interruption. An action is considered to take zero time and cannot be interrupted. In contrast, an activity is a more complex collection of behavior that may run for a long duration. An activity may be interrupted by events, in which case, it does not run to completion.

An action is a result of a system state change, and is realized by sending a message to an object or modifying a link or a value of an attribute.

An action may receive inputs in the form of control flows and object flows (the latter via input pins) and passes the results of its processing or transformations to one or more outgoing control flows or object flows (the latter via output pins) and onto downstream nodes.

Execution of the action cannot begin until all its prerequisites are satisfied. All incoming control flows have control tokens and all input pins have object tokens.

An action refers to the suite of rules and policies associated with a state machine state, and is represented as an object method.

Actions are contained within, and are provided context by activities.

An action behavior accompanies a transition event.

Action (Sweet song)

"Action" is a self-written and produced 1975 song by the glam rock band Sweet. The song went through several iterations; a 7" single version was recorded at Ian Gillan's Kingsway Studios in London and slightly different versions appear on the albums Strung Up and Give Us a Wink. It reached the Top 10 in 1975 in numerous European countries and Canada but stalled at #15 in the UK and #20 in the US. The lyrics refer to Sweet's negative treatment as pop-stars, particularly by the music press, and to the demands of the music industry. The track features a masked 'backwards vocal' with the words 'You kiss my arse'.

The song was also featured in Formula One's video for the 2009 Monaco Grand Prix.

Action (1980 film)

Action is a 1980 Italian black comedy directed by Tinto Brass. The film is reminiscent of the director's earlier avant-garde low-budget works such as The Howl and Nerosubianco.

Brass faced many difficulties in Italy due to lawsuits concerning the production of Caligula so he filmed Action in London in 1979.

Action (store)

Action is a Dutch discount store-chain. It sells mostly small, low budget, non-food products. Action operates stores primarily in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and France. In 2013 Action had a revenue of just over a billion euro, which was a 14% rise compared to 2012 when they had a revenue of 873 million euro.

Action (Freddy Canon song)

Action is a song written by Tommy Boyce & Steve Venet, which was the theme song to the TV series Where the Action Is, a 1965 hit for Freddy Cannon.

Action (Cyprus)

Action (, Drasy; ) is a Cypriot bi-communal political alliance formed to contest the 2014 elections to the European Parliament, bringing together Greek and Turkish Cypriots in an electoral alliance for the first time since 1974. In Greek the alliance name is often stylized as Δ.Ρ.Α.Συ (D.R.A.Sy), a contrived acronym that stands for Bicommunal Radical Left Cooperation (, Dikoinotikí Rizospastikí Aristerí Synergasía).

ACTION (U.S. government agency)

ACTION was a United States government agency described as "the federal domestic volunteer agency". It was formed July 1, 1971, midway through President Richard Nixon's first term, under the provisions of Reorganization Plan Number One, and Executive Order 11603, June 30, 1971, to provide centralized coordination and administration of Government-sponsored domestic and international volunteer agencies.

Among the programs transferred to the new agency were:

  • domestic volunteer programs established in the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) pursuant to the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 (78 Stat. 508), August 20, 1964:
    • Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) and
    • the National Student Volunteer Program (NSVP);
  • domestic volunteer programs established in the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare pursuant to the Older Americans Act of 1965 (79 Stat. 218), July 14, 1965, and the Older Americans Act Amendments of 1969 (83 Stat. 111), September 17, 1969:
    • the Foster Grandparents program and
    • the Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP);
  • the Peace Corps, the international volunteer programs represented established in the United States Department of State|Department of State]] pursuant to EO 10924, March 1, 1961;
  • the volunteer action clearinghouse functions vested in the Office of Voluntary Action at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, pursuant to EO 11470, May 26, 1969.

ACTION also assumed from OEO responsibility for providing logistical support to the volunteer programs of the Small Business Administration (SBA):

  • Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE), established April 1964;
  • Active Corps of Executives (ACE), established August 1969.

ACTION's responsibility for SCORE and ACE terminated in 1976.

In addition, the Senior Companions program was established in ACTION in 1973. Foster Grandparents, RSVP, and Senior Companions were later merged into the Senior Corps.

Peace was Corps separated from ACTION in 1982.

The NSVP was redesignated National Center for Service Learning in 1980, and terminated and superseded by Student Community Service Projects in 1987.

ACTION's functions, and the Commission on National and Community Service, were ordered transferred to the newly established Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) no later than March 22, 1995, by Section 203 of the National and Community Service Trust Act of 1993 (107 Stat. 892), September 21, 1993. AmeriCorps, which includes VISTA, and Senior Corps are programs of the CNCS. ACTION was abolished by Presidential Proclamation 6662, April 4, 1994 (3 CFR, 1994 ed., 22). See 362.1.

Action (theatre)

Action as a term in Western theatre practice refers to a principle from actor training first developed by Russian actor and theatre director Konstantin Stanislavski in the first half of the 20th century at the Moscow Art Theatre. It forms part of his overall structure of systematized acting training, most frequently called the System, which in its turn gave rise to Method Acting.

In his writings on theatre, Stanislavski states "The basis of theatre is doing, dynamism. [...] In Latin, the corresponding word is actio, and the root of this same word has passed into our vocabulary, "action", "actor", "act". So, drama is an action we can see being performed, and, when he comes on, the actor becomes an agent in that action" and "acting is action - mental and physical." Jean Benedetti understands action in a Stanislavskian context more simply as "What is done in order to fulfill a Task," a Task in its turn referring to "What a character has to do, the problem he has to solve." Action as a term in theatre practice derived from the Stanislavski System therefore refers to that which a character undertakes in order to achieve a goal.

Action (newspaper)

Action was a newspaper of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists (BUF). The paper first appeared in 1936. The editor of the paper from 1939 was Alexander Raven Thomson, the BUF's chief ideologue. It ceased publication in 1940 due to the outbreak of the Second World War and the interment of the BUF's leadership. For most of its existence, Action ran parallel to the official mouthpiece of the BUF, The Blackshirt. After the launch of the less hard-line Action, The Blackshirt became more targeted at committed fascists.

Action took its name from an earlier 1931 newspaper of the same name for which Oswald Mosley had written.

A later newspaper of the same name was published by the Union Movement from 1966.

Usage examples of "action".

That would require leaving sufficient men aboard to subdue the prisoners, which in turn made any future action more hazardous.

Every action aboard the ship was dissected to see what opportunities it presented.

The complaint further alleged that the office of the Seminole County Supervisor of Elections failed to inform the Democratic Party of the actions of the Republican Party volunteers and to afford them the same opportunity to correct defective requests for absentee ballots from Democratic Party members.

For ourselves, while whatever in us belongs to the body of the All should be yielded to its action, we ought to make sure that we submit only within limits, realizing that the entire man is not thus bound to it: intelligent servitors yield a part of themselves to their masters but in part retain their personality, and are thus less absolutely at beck and call, as not being slaves, not utterly chattels.

Manner of performing the experiments--action of distilled water in comparison with the solutions--Carbonate of ammonia, absorbed by the roots--The vapour absorbed by the glands--Drops on the disc--Minute drops applied to separate glands--Leaves immersed in weak solutions--Minuteness of the doses which induce aggregation of the protoplasm--Nitrate of ammonia, analogous experiments with--Phosphate of ammonia, analogous experiments with--Other salts of ammonia--Summary and concluding remarks on the action of salts of ammonia.

We may infer that the carbonate of ammonia is absorbed by the glands, not only from its action being so rapid, but from its effect being somewhat different from that of other salts.

These cases of the simultaneous darkening or blackening of the glands from the action of weak solutions are important, as they show that all the glands absorbed the carbonate within the same time, which fact indeed there was not the least reason to doubt.

Rosemary West, too, was the daughter of a dominant and abusive father, a man whose actions she also idealised.

In finding the abutment reactions some principle such as the principle of least action must be used, and some assumptions of doubtful validity made.

Constitution, which, it is submitted, was merely the power to amend the delegated grants, and these were obtained by the separate and independent action of each State acceding to the Union.

My illustrious friend still continuing to sound in my ears the imperious duty to which I was called, of making away with my sinful relations, and quoting many parallel actions out of the Scriptures, and the writings of the holy fathers, of the pleasure the Lord took in such as executed his vengeance on the wicked, I was obliged to acquiesce in his measures, though with certain limitations.

If the Supreme Court of the United States shall decide that States cannot exclude slavery from their limits, are you in favor of acquiescing in, adopting, and following such decision as a rule of political action?

Supreme Court of the United States shall decide that the States cannot exclude slavery from their limits, are you in favor of acquiescing in, adhering to, and following such decision as a rule of political action?

Court declared that: After a legislative body has fairly and fully investigated and acted, by fixing what it believes to be reasonable rates, the courts cannot step in and say its action shall be set aside because the courts, upon similar investigation, have come to a different conclusion as to the reasonableness of the rates fixed.

Never was an actress found who could replace her, and to find one it would be necessary that she should unite in herself all the perfections which Silvia possessed for the difficult profession of the stage: action, voice, intelligence, wit, countenance, manners, and a deep knowledge of the human heart.