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Action logo #10101) Accomplishment 2) Achievement 3) Activity 4) American radio drama 5) Australian grocer 6) Behaviour 7) British weekly magazine 8) Bruce Willis genre 9) Bustle 10) Call before shooting 11) Call on the set 12) Chase scenes, shootouts, etc 13) Comic by Pat Mills 14) Commotion 15) Concept in metaphysics
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  1. something done (usually as opposed to something said)
  2. 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
  3. a military engagement
  4. a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)
  5. the series of events that form a plot
  6. the operati......
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    action logo #21839 The physical mechanism that manipulates cartridges and/or seals the breech. The term is also used to describe the method in which cartridges are loaded, locked, and extracted from the mechanism. Actions are generally categorized by the type of mechanism used. A firearm action is technically not present on muzzleloaders as all loading is done by ha...
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    Action logo #21002• (n.) 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. • (n.) An act; a thing done; a deed; an enterprise. (pl.): Ha...
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    Action logo #22162A term used to describe component functions of locomotion (e.g., action of the hocks) or as a synonym for gait in some standards.
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    action logo #21003(from the article `applied logic`) The propositional modalities relating to normative (or valuational) classifications of actions and states of affairs, such as the permitted, the ... A year later he pronounced another epoch-making theory: that knowledge and action are one. One knows filial piety, he argued, only when one acts upon ... ...
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    action logo #21003(from the article `keyboard instrument`) In the three surviving examples of Cristofori`s pianos, which date from the 1720s, the mechanism, or `action,` differs somewhat from that described ... The late 20th century has seen a decline in production of pipe organs, with several large manufacturers going out of business in the Un...
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    action logo #21003(from the article `small arm`) Practical shoulder-fired small arms started with the perfection of the flintlock ignition system in the mid-17th century (see military technology). ... ...cartridges. The weapons were first mounted on helicopters but afterward appeared on tripods and armoured vehicles. On these mounts, ... [2 related ar...
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    action logo #21160A quantity with the dimensions of energy × time. It is most commonly encountered in modern physics in connection with Planck's constant, which has these dimensions and is therefore sometimes called Planck's quantum of action. Pairs of measurable quantities whose product has dimensions of energy × ti...
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    action logo #209731. 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 d...
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    Action logo #21048A Photoshop command sequence you can record and replay to automate recurrent imaging tasks
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    Action logo #22385A real or fictional event or series of such events comprising the subject of a novel, story, narrati
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    action logo #10444(Learning Modules / Mathematics / Gravity) Force in operation.
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    Action logo #20972Ac'tion noun [ Old French action , Latin actio , from 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 b...
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    action logo #21187A term referring to the height of the strings above the frets and fretboard.
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    action logo #22318A judicial proceeding. An action in personam is against a person. An action in rem is against a thing, usually where property is involved.
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    action logo #22094 Civil legal proceedings.
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    Action logo #20948A Photoshop command sequence you can record and replay to automate recurrent imaging tasks.
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    Action logo #22826A description of something that an Intent sender wants done. An action is a string value assigned to an Intent. Action strings can be defined by Android or by a third-party developer. For example, android.intent.action.VIEW for a Web URL, or com.example.rumbler.SHAKE_PHONE for a custom application to vibrate the phone.
    Found on https://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/glossary.html

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    action logo #20974 noun the series of events that form a plot; `his novels always have a lot of action`
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    Action logo #21203(in Scholasticism) Immanent: The terminus is received in the agent, as in a subject; as contemplation. Transient: The terminus is received in a subject distinct from the agent; as ball-throwing. -- H.G.
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    action logo #21221(law) In law, one of the proceedings whereby a person or agency seeks to enforce rights or redress a wrong in a civil court
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    action logo #22316a civil judicial proceeding whereby one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or prevention of a wrong; requires service of process on adversary party or potentially adversary party
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    action logo #23665 something done (usually as opposed to something said)
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    action logo #23665[TEKS ELAR vocabulary] the series of events that form a plot
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