goose
motivative
motive
motivating
step up to the plate
play
course of action
move in on
course
take control
take charge
take hold
work
actioned
make do
performance
forehandedness
antilife
function
get down
proactiveness
get
set about
prodeath
start out
commence
set out
thing
start
pro-abort
tactically
begin
energic
prosodiacally
enact
do
execute
move
perform
reenact
act out
proactivity
manner
pluterperfect
arm
marching orders
actuate
process
see to
open the floodgates
-ation
wait for the other shoe to drop
procedure
set upon
exudation
prodding
operation
exusion
scheme
stir
strength
doingness
persuasiveness
strategy
procuratory
make a move
active
backscratch
lean in
pronate
actionable
controlling
take the wheel
trip
permit
let
spark
spark off
set off
trigger off
thesp
chest bump
activate
allow
let me see
touch off
trigger
grab by the lapels
working
pressing
pronosupination
subcognitive
get after
actuatable
tactical
urgent
pro-verb
motivative
motive
motivating
actioned
antilife
prodeath
pro-abort
energic
pluterperfect
procuratory
active
actionable
pressing
subcognitive
actuatable
urgent
tactically
prosodiacally
course of action
course
performance
forehandedness
proactiveness
thing
proactivity
manner
marching orders
process
procedure
exudation
prodding
operation
exusion
scheme
strength
doingness
persuasiveness
strategy
controlling
working
pronosupination
tactical
pro-verb
play
goose
step up to the plate
play
move in on
take control
take charge
take hold
work
make do
function
get down
get
set about
start out
commence
set out
start
begin
enact
do
execute
move
perform
reenact
act out
arm
actuate
see to
open the floodgates
wait for the other shoe to drop
set upon
stir
make a move
backscratch
lean in
pronate
take the wheel
trip
permit
let
spark
spark off
set off
trigger off
thesp
chest bump
activate
allow
touch off
trigger
grab by the lapels
get after
adj
noun
- the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior
- a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music
- a design or figure that consists of recurring shapes or colors, as in architecture or decoration
verb
- To put in action or motion.
- To bring into sportive or wanton action; to exhibit in action; to execute.
- To act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be careless.
- Contrary to fact, to give an appearance of being.
- To be performed; (or of a film) to be shown.
- To manipulate, deceive, or swindle someone.
- To move to and fro.
- To produce music (or a specified song or musical style) using (a specified musical instrument).
- To compete against, in a game.
- To act; to behave; to practice deception.
- To perform in or at; to give performances in or at.
- To produce music using a musical instrument.
- To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion; to operate.
- To take part in amorous activity; to make love.
- To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
- To kid; to joke; say something for amusement.
- (in the scoring of games and sports) To be the opposing score to.
- To gamble.
- To act as the indicated role, especially in a performance.
- To produce music.
- To act or perform (a play).
- To keep in play, as a hooked fish in order to land it.
- To use a device to watch or listen to the indicated recording.
- To act in a manner such that one has fun; to engage in activities expressly for the purpose of recreation or entertainment.
noun
- A geological formation that contains an accumulation or prospect of hydrocarbons or other resources.
- An instance of watching or listening to digital media.
- The extent to which a part of a mechanism can move freely, as for example lash, backlash, or slack.
- Movement (of a pattern of light etc.)
- An individual's performance in a sport or game.
- A literary composition, intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue.
- A button that, when pressed, causes media to be played.
- Activity for amusement only, especially among the young.
- Similar activity in young animals, as they explore their environment and learn new skills.
- An attempt to move forward, as in a plan or strategy, for example by a business, investor, or political party.
- Sexual activity or sexual role-playing.
- The conduct, or course, of a game.
- A short sequence of action within a game.
- An action carried out when it is one's turn to play.
- A theatrical performance featuring actors.
noun
noun
- a mode of action
- education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings
- a connected series of events or actions or developments
- general line of orientation
- a line or route along which something travels or moves
- a body of students who are taught together
- part of a meal served at one time
- (construction) a layer of masonry
- facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport
adv
verb
verb
verb
verb
- To set into action.
- To embroider with thread.
- To cause to ferment.
- To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
- To shape, form, or improve a material.
- Followed by with. General use, said of either fellow employees or instruments or clients.
- To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
- To pull off; to wear, perform, etc. successfully or to advantage.
- Followed by as. Said of one's job title
- To behave in a certain way when handled
- To exhaust, by working.
- Followed by in (or at, etc.) Said of one's workplace (building), or one's department, or one's trade (sphere of business).
- To ferment.
- Followed by for. Said of a company or individual who employs.
- To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
- To provoke or excite; to influence.
- To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
- To cause to work.
- To effect by gradual degrees;
- To influence.
- To move in an agitated manner.
- To cause (someone) to feel (something); to do unto somebody (something, whether good or bad).
- To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
- To effect by gradual degrees.
- To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
noun
- The staging of events to appear as real.
- The result of a particular manner of production.
- Sustained effort to overcome obstacles and achieve a result.
- The equipment needed to inject a drug (syringes, needles, swabs etc.)
- Ore before it is dressed.
- A measure of energy expended in moving an object; most commonly, force times distance. No work is done if the object does not move.
- Something produced using the specified material or tool.
- One's employer.
- Something on which effort is expended.
- effort expended on a particular task.
- The place where one is employed.
- A fortification.
- A measure of energy that is usefully extracted from a process.
- A literary, artistic, or intellectual production.
- labour, occupation, job.
noun
- The act of performing; carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action.
- That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat; especially, an action of an elaborate or public character.
- The amount of useful work accomplished estimated in terms of time needed, resources used, etc.
- The actual use of language in concrete situations by native speakers of a language, as opposed to the system of linguistic knowledge they possess (competence), cf. linguistic performance.
- A live show or concert.
verb
noun
- What something does or is used for.
- The physiological activity of an organ or body part.
- A routine that receives zero or more arguments and may return a result.
- The role of a social practice in the continued existence of the group.
- An official or social occasion.
- A party.
- The characteristic behavior of a chemical compound.
- A relation in which each element of the domain is associated with exactly one element of the codomain.
- A professional or official position.
- A relation where one thing is dependent on another for its existence, value, or significance.
- Something which is dependent on or stems from another thing; a result or concomitant.
verb
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- lower (one's body) as by kneeling
- move something or somebody to a lower position
- alight from (a horse)
- pass through the esophagus as part of eating or drinking
- lower someone's spirits; make downhearted
- put down in writing; of texts, musical compositions, etc.
verb
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- come into the possession of something concrete or abstract
- enter or assume a certain state or condition
- cause to move; cause to be in a certain position or condition
- receive a specified treatment (abstract)
- reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress
- go or come after and bring or take back
- go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
- take vengeance on or get even
- achieve a point or goal
- cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner
- succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase
- come to have or undergo a change of (physical features and attributes)
- be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness
- communicate with a place or person; establish communication with, as if by telephone
- give certain properties to something
- move into a desired direction of discourse
- grasp with the mind or develop an understanding of
- attract and fix
- reach with a blow or hit in a particular spot
- reach by calculation
- acquire as a result of some effort or action
- purchase
- perceive by hearing
- suffer from the receipt of
- receive as a retribution or punishment
- leave immediately; used usually in the imperative form
- reach and board
- irritate
- evoke an emotional response
- apprehend and reproduce accurately
- earn or achieve a base by being walked by the pitcher
- overcome or destroy
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- undergo (as of injuries and illnesses)
- make (offspring) by reproduction
noun
noun
- an action
- a special situation
- a special abstraction
- an artifact
- an event
- a vaguely specified concern
- a statement regarded as an object
- an entity that is not named specifically
- any attribute or quality considered as having its own existence
- a special objective
- a persistent illogical feeling of desire or aversion
- a separate and self-contained entity
verb
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- set in motion, cause to start
- depart for someplace
- have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
- bring into being
- get off the ground
- move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm
- get going or set in motion
- begin or set in motion
- begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job
- play in the starting lineup
- have a beginning characterized in some specified way
- begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object
- bulge outward
noun
- the beginning of anything
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- a turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning)
- a sudden involuntary movement
- the act of starting something
- a line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game
- a signal to begin (as in a race)
- the advantage gained by beginning early (as in a race)
verb
- take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
- have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense
- set in motion, cause to start
- begin to speak or say
- be the first item or point, constitute the beginning or start, come first in a series
- have a beginning, of a temporal event
- have a beginning characterized in some specified way
- begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object
- achieve or accomplish in the least degree, usually used in the negative
- begin to speak, understand, read, and write a language
adv
verb
- carry out or perform an action
- engage in
- get (something) done
- proceed or get along
- give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally
- carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions
- be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity
- create or design, often in a certain way
- behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself
- spend time in prison or in a labor camp
- carry on or function
- arrange attractively
- travel or traverse (a distance)
noun
noun
verb
- To act; to take action; to begin to act
- To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another
- To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion, to excite (for example, an emotion).
- To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.
- To change residence, for example from one house, town, or state, to another; to go and live at another place. See also move out and move in.
- To request an action from the court.
- To transfer (a piece) from one space or position on the board to another.
- To sell or market (especially physical inventory or illicit drugs).
- To change place or posture; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another.
- To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit
noun
- The event of changing one's residence.
- A change in strategy.
- A round, in which each player has a turn.
- The act of moving a token on a gameboard from one position to another according to the rules of the game.
- The act of moving; a movement.
- An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.
- A transfer, a change from one employer to another.
- A formalized or practiced action used in athletics, dance, physical exercise, self-defense, hand-to-hand combat, etc.
noun
- Mode of action; way of performing or doing anything
- Characteristic mode of acting or behaving; bearing
- The style of writing or thought of an author; the characteristic peculiarity of an artist.
- good, polite behaviour
- One's customary method of acting; habit.
- A certain degree or measure.
- Standards of conduct cultured and product of mind.
- Sort; kind; style.
verb
- To become prepared for action; to activate.
- To supply with armour or (later especially) weapons.
- To cover or furnish with a plate, or with whatever will add strength, force, security, or efficiency.
- To take up weapons; to arm oneself.
- To fit (a magnet) with an armature.
- To prepare (a tool, weapon, or system) for action; to activate.
- To supply with the equipment, knowledge, authority, or other tools needed for a particular task; to furnish with capability; to equip.
noun
- A pitcher
- A group of patients in a medical trial.
- A limb, or locomotive or prehensile organ, of an invertebrate animal.
- A long, narrow, more or less rigid part of an object extending from the main part or centre of the object, such as the arm of an armchair, a crane, a pair of spectacles or a pair of compasses.
- The extended portion of the upper limb, from the shoulder to the elbow.
- The part of a piece of clothing that covers the arm.
- One of the two parts of a chromosome.
- Heraldic bearings or insignia.
- A branch of an organization.
- A bay or inlet off a main body of water.
- A weapon.
- The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand.
- Power; might; strength; support.
adj
noun
- a particular course of action intended to achieve a result
- (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents
- a writ issued by authority of law; usually compels the defendant's attendance in a civil suit; failure to appear results in a default judgment against the defendant
- a mental process that you are not directly aware of
- a natural prolongation or projection from a part of an organism either animal or plant
- a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states
verb
- subject to a process or treatment, with the aim of readying for some purpose, improving, or remedying a condition
- deal with in a routine way
- perform mathematical and logical operations on (data) according to programmed instructions in order to obtain the required information
- institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against
- shape, form, or improve a material
- deliver a warrant or summons to someone
verb
noun
- The method or practice by which actions are done.
- The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.
- A procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands);
- A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm)
- A planned undertaking.
- A business or organization.
- a function which maps zero or more (but typically two) operands to a single output value.
- The method by which a device performs its function.
- A surgical procedure.
noun
- an elaborate and systematic plan of action
- a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
- a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole
- an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world
- a schematic or preliminary plan
verb
verb
- To incite to action.
- Of a feeling or emotion: to rise, begin to be felt.
- To disturb the relative position of the particles of (a liquid or similar) by passing an object through it.
- To begin to move, especially gently, from a still or unmoving position.
- To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.
- To bring into debate; to agitate.
- To rise from sleep or unconsciousness.
- To disturb the content of (a container) by passing an object through it.
noun
noun
- the power to induce the taking of a course of action or the embracing of a point of view by means of argument or entreaty
- the property of being physically or mentally strong
- capability in terms of personnel and materiel that affect the capacity to fight a war
- physical energy or intensity
- an asset of special worth or utility
- the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation)
- capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects
- the condition of financial success
- permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force
verb
- To take action.
- To depart from a place; to set off.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see make, move.
- To initiate a conversation or perform an action intended to engage the willing attention of a person in whom one has a romantic or sexual interest; to approach someone of romantic or sexual appeal in hopes of escalating to a romantic or sexual encounter or relationship.
adj
- Given to action rather than contemplation; practical; operative
- Brisk; lively.
- Applied to a form of the verb; — opposed to passive. See active voice.
- Applied to verbs which assert that the subject acts upon or affects something else; transitive.
- (of a homosexual man) enjoying a role in anal sex in which he penetrates, rather than being penetrated by his partner.
- Requiring or implying action or exertion
- Not passive.
- Eligible to be processed by a compiler or interpreter.
- Having the power or quality of acting; causing change; communicating action or motion; acting;—opposed to passive, that receives.
- Emitting hot materials, such as lava, smoke, or steam, or producing tremors.
- Implying or producing rapid action.
- Given to action; constantly engaged in action; energetic; diligent; busy
- Quick in physical movement; of an agile and vigorous body; nimble.
- Applied to all verbs that express action as distinct from mere existence or state.
- In action; actually proceeding; working; in force
noun
verb
- To become pronated.
- To turn or rotate one’s hand and forearm so that the palm faces down if the forearm is horizontal, back if the arm is pointing down, or forward if the forearm is pointing up; to twist the right forearm counterclockwise or the left forearm clockwise.
- To twist the foot so that if walking the weight would be borne on the inner edge of the foot.
adj
verb
noun
- a momentary flash of light
- merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance
- electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field
- a small but noticeable trace of some quality that might become stronger
- a small fragment of a burning substance thrown out by burning material or by friction
verb
- make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen
- consent to, give permission; permit
- let have
- give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
- make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain
- allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something
- afford possibility
- allow the other (baseball) team to score
- grant as a discount or in exchange
- allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting
phrase
- Used when pondering the results of an action one is doing, or to politely ask for permission to do something
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see let, me, see.
- Used as a filled pause to indicating thinking or pondering, not inviting hearer to participate.
- Used to indicate incredulity; wait a minute; hold on
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