A way of motion or functioning.
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).
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 charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
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.
To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.
arrogant
Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually a performance.
An advance or movement made from one foot to the other; a pace.
The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running.
The interval between two contiguous degrees of the scale.
A running board where passengers step to get on and off the bus.
The part of a spade, digging stick or similar tool that a digger's foot rests against and presses on when digging; an ear, a foot-rest.
A rest, or one of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a rung of a ladder.
A print of the foot; a footstep; a footprint; track.
Proceeding; measure; action; act.
One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs.
A small space or distance.
A portable framework of stairs, much used indoors in reaching to a high position.
A framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specifically, a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast.
A gait; manner of walking.
A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.
A change of position effected by a motion of translation.
A walk; passage.
A distinct part of a process; stage; phase.
A stepchild.
A stepsibling.
A constant difference between consecutive values in a series.
To dance.
To walk slowly, gravely, or resolutely.
To move mentally; to go in imagination.
To walk; to go on foot; especially, to walk a little distance.
To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
To fix the foot of (a mast) in its step; to erect.
To set, as the foot.