Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- Something done so as to accomplish a purpose.
- A way of motion or functioning.
- A fast-paced activity.
- A mechanism; a moving part or assembly.
- (music): 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.
- (slang) sexual intercourse.
- The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on the guitar.
- (military) Combat.
- (legal) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
- (mathematics) 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.
- 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.
- (art, painting and sculpture) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.
- (bowling) spin put on the bowling ball.
- (business, obsolete, a Gallicism) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds.
Verbit
- (transitive, management) To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.
- (transitive chiefly archaic) To initiate a legal action against someone.
Huudahdukset
- Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually an act or scene of a theatric performance.
Esimerkit
- Knead bread with a rocking action.
- an action movie
- a rifle action
- She gave him some action.
- He saw some action in the Korean War.
- The Euripus of funds and actions.
- The director yelled ‘Action!’ before the camera started rolling.
- ‘Here, give me the minutes of Monday’s meeting. I’ll action your points for you while you get on and sort out the open day.’
- Violent reactions from the Jewish authorities were expected and difficulties of actioning the new guidelines were foreseen.
- HMRC said that one reason they had not actioned her appeal was because she had said in her appeal form ‘I am appealing against the overpayment for childcare for 2003-04, 2004-05’, thus implying she was disputing her ‘overpayment’.
- ‘I have no business to settle with you—arrest me, Sir, at your peril and I’ll action you in law for false imprisonment.’
- “Scrip threatened me at first with an action for slander—he spoke of actions to the wrong man though—action! no, no no. I should have actioned him—ha! ha! [...]”
- I have actioned him for Libel, but he won’t plead, and says he will make himself bankrupt & won’t pay a penny.
- In 1589 the Court went so far as to effect a reconciliation between Michel le Petevin and his wife after she actioned him for ill treatment and adultery with their chambermaid.
- Did you see action during the war?
- He was declared MIA: missing in action.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | actioned |
| Imperfekti | actioned |
| Partisiipin preesens | actioning |
| Monikko | actions |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | actions |