action vs process

action

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

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

  • A religious performance or solemn function, i.e. action sermon, a sacramental sermon in the Scots Presbyterian Church. 

  • 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 effort of performing or doing something. 

  • a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings). 

  • A way of motion or functioning. 

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

  • Fast-paced activity. 

  • 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. 

  • The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on a guitar or other string instrument. 

  • 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 attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted. 

  • Sexual intercourse. 

  • Combat. 

  • spin put on the bowling ball. 

  • The product of energy and time, especially the product of the Lagrangian and time. 

  • The way in which cartridges are loaded, locked, and extracted from the mechanism. 

adj
  • arrogant 

intj
  • Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually a performance. 

verb
  • To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect. 

process

noun
  • Documents issued by a court in the course of a lawsuit or action at law, such as a summons, mandate, or writ. 

  • Successive physiological responses to keep or restore health. 

  • A path of succession of states through which a system passes. 

  • A set of procedures used to produce a product, most commonly in the food and chemical industries. 

  • The centre mark that players aim at in the game of squails. 

  • A series of events which produce a result (the product). 

  • An executable task or program. 

  • A structure that arises above a surface. 

  • An outgrowth of tissue or cell. 

verb
  • To perform a particular process on a thing. 

  • To develop photographic film. 

  • To take legal proceedings against. 

  • To walk in a procession 

  • To retrieve, store, classify, manipulate, transmit etc. (data, signals, etc.), especially using computer techniques. 

  • To think about a piece of information, or a concept, in order to assimilate it, and perhaps accept it in a modified state. 

How often have the words action and process occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )