Definition of "action" in İngilizce

noun

1. The effort of performing or doing something.

2. Something done, often so as to accomplish a purpose.

3. A way of motion or functioning.

   • Knead bread with a rocking action.

4. Fast-paced activity.

   • a movie full of exciting action

5. The way in which a mechanical device acts when used; especially a firearm.

   • Pressing a piano key causes the action of the hammer on the string.

6. (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.

   • The run in bar 12 is almost impossible with this piano's heavy action.

7. (music, lutherie) The distance separating the strings and the fingerboard on a string instrument.

   • You're getting fret buzz because the action is too low.

8. (slang, typically with a quantifier) Sexual intercourse.

   • She gave him some action.
   • I hope to get a bit of action with the hot guy from the club.

9. (military) Combat.

   • He saw some action in the Korean War.

10. (law) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).

11. (mathematics) A way in which each element of some algebraic structure transforms some other structure or set, in a way which respects the structure of the first. Formally, this may be seen as a morphism from the first structure into some structure of endomorphisms of the second; for example, a group action of a group G on a set S can be seen as a group homomorphism from G into the set of bijections on S (which form a group under function composition), while a module M over a ring R can be defined as an abelian group together with a ring homomorphism from R into the ring of group endomorphisms of M (which is also called the action of R on M).

12. (physics) The product of energy and time, especially the product of the Lagrangian and time.

13. (literature) 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.

14. (art, painting and sculpture) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.

15. (bowling) spin put on the bowling ball.

16. (obsolete) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds.

17. (Christianity) A religious performance or solemn function, i.e. action sermon, a sacramental sermon in the Scots Presbyterian Church.