意味: 行動
例文: Momo yelled, “Less nap! More action!” and slept.
モモは「昼寝より行動!」と叫び、寝た。
定義: なされた事柄(通常、言われた事柄に対して言う)
コロケーション:
actionは6,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。
Definitions(定義)
Noun: something done (usually as opposed to something said)
Noun: the state of being active
Noun: a military engagement
Noun: a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)
Noun: the series of events that form a plot
Noun: the trait of being active and energetic and forceful
Noun: the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism
Noun: 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
Noun: an act by a government body or supranational organization
Noun: the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field
Verb: institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against
Verb: put in effect
Parts of Speech(品詞)
Noun, Verb
Examples(例文)
Noun: there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions
Noun: his sphere of activity
Noun: he is out of action
Noun: he saw action in Korea
Noun: the action of natural forces
Noun: volcanic activity
Noun: his novels always have a lot of action
Noun: a man of action
Noun: the piano had a very stiff action
Noun: recent federal action undermined the segregationist position
Noun: the United Nations must have the power to propose and organize action without being hobbled by irrelevant issues
Noun: the Union action of emancipating Southern slaves
Noun: the action is no longer in technology stocks but in municipal bonds
Noun: gawkers always try to get as close to the action as possible
Verb: He was warned that the district attorney would process him
Verb: She actioned the company for discrimination
Verb: carry out a task
Verb: execute the decision of the people
Verb: He actioned the operation
Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)
Synonyms(類語): accomplish, action, action at law, action mechanism, activeness, activity, carry out, carry through, execute, fulfil, fulfill, legal action, litigate, military action, natural action, natural process, process, sue
Antonyms(反意語): inaction, inactiveness, inactivity
Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)
Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): act, challenge, complete, drive, effect, group action, mechanism, plot, proceeding, process, state, work
Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): acquiring, action, activity, actuator, adoption, aggressiveness, ambition, appeal, assembly, assumption, attendance, automaton, axis, bankruptcy, being, brainstorming, busywork, call one’s bluff, call out, care, carriage, carry through, cartridge ejector, cartridge extractor, causing, chelation, cleavage, clockwork, close, communalism, communication, competition, condition, conditionality, confederation, conflict, control, cooling system, cooperation, counterchallenge, coup d’etat, coursework, damnation, dead letter, dealignment, death, decolonization, decrease, defy, degeneration, degree, delayed action, delivery, democratization, departure, dependence, derivation, development, disbandment, discovery, disestablishment, disorder, disposal, distribution, draw, drive, drive line, due process, duty, dystopia, economic process, egress, employment, encapsulation, end, energy, engagement, enlargement, enterprise, equalization, ethnic cleansing, exchange, execution, exhumation, fail-safe, feeling, film advance, flux, follow through, foreclosure, forfeit, freedom, gear, get through, grace, ground state, group action, hearing, heavy lifting, heterozygosity, hindrance, hire, homing device, homozygosity, hostility, housewifery, housework, human process, hydraulic system, ignition, illumination, immaturity, imminence, impeach, imperfection, implementation, impugn, inaction, inactivity, increase, induce, industrial process, integration, integrity, internationalization, intervention, investigation, ironing, irreversible process, isomerism, iteration, job, judgment, kalemia, labor, lawsuit, leaning, legal action, legalization, legitimation, litigate, litigation, lock, logging, loose end, maturity, mechanical device, medium, merchantability, military action, mission, mitzvah, motion, motionlessness, motivation, nationalization, nationhood, natural process, naturalization, neotony, nightwork, non-engagement, nonaccomplishment, nonattendance, nonbeing, nonresistance, obligation, office, omnipotence, omniscience, operation, order, organic process, ornamentation, ownership, paperwork, paternity, perfection, phenomenon, photography, plurality, polyvalence, precipitate, procedure, processing, procession, proclamation, production, propulsion, provoke, question, radiator, rally, readiness, receivership, recovery, rejection, relationship, remit, representation, residency, resistance, return, reversible process, review, revocation, revolution, rotating mechanism, round out, running away, see through, sensitization, separation, serve, service, shaping, shining, situation, skillfulness, social activity, social control, socialization, spadework, speech act, stampede, status, stay, steering linkage, steering system, stop, storyline, subbing, submission, tape drive, temporary state, timework, top, touch, transaction, trial, tribalism, turgor, undertaking, unemployment, union, utilization, utopia, variation, vote, wash, waste, wear, welfare work, whirler, wild, works
Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): absorption, accomplishment, acidification, adiabatic process, aeration, agency, aggression, alienation, amphibious landing, antiredeposition, antitrust case, application, arrival, battle, beatification, behavior, blockade, bruxism, busyness, capture, centrifugation, change, chemical process, choice, chromatography, civil action, concretion, condensation, consummate, convection, counterclaim, course, curdling, custody case, decay, defense, demagnetization, desorption, destabilization, diffusion, dispatch, dissolution, distillation, do, drift, economy, effervescence, electronic warfare, electrophoresis, emphasizing, employment, eruption, establishment, expedite, extinction, extraction, feedback, fetch, filtration, flocculation, flow, formation, fossilization, geological process, get over, gunlock, hardening, inactivation, interaction, ion exchange, ionization, jumpstart, kindness, leach, lis pendens, magnetization, materialization, movement, nuclear reaction, opacification, operation, oscillation, overdrive, oxygenation, pair production, performance, phase change, piano action, pickings, play, playing, police action, politeness, precession of the equinoxes, prohibition, prosecution, pump action, radiation, reference, release, res gestae, resistance, reverence, run, saber rattling, saltation, scattering, sericulture, sink, soak, softening, sorption, sortie, source, stiffening, stimulation, stupefaction, succession, survival, swing, synergy, temperature change, test case, thing, transduction, transfusion, transgression, transpiration, vampirism, vitrification, war
Derivationally Related Words(派生語)
Derivationally Related Words: accomplishable, accomplishment, act, action, actionable, active, execution, executive, fulfillment, fulfilment, litigation, process, suer, suit
Categories(カテゴリー)
Domain Categories: law
Usage Category: literary
Usage Context: descriptive
Grammatical Notes:
transitive verb
countable noun
Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)
Prefixes(接頭辞):
Suffixes(接尾辞): tion
Exam Level
中学レベル
英検3級
Media Appearance(メディア登場例)
Books(洋書): Atomic Habits, Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1
Movies(映画): Big Hero 6, The Bad Guys
Other Information(その他)
Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) Yes
Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) Yes
Emotion Categories: positive
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