action

/ˈækʃən/

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。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: take action（行動を起こす）, legal action（法的措置）, direct action（直接行動）

定義: 実際に行うこと、または動き。例：take action（行動を起こす）、slow motion action（スローモーション）。

actionは約6,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

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)

感情分析に使用された例文：

The movie’s thrilling action kept the audience on the edge of their seats.(映画のスリリングなアクションは観客を引き込んだ。)
Let’s take action and make a difference in our community today!(今日、私たちのコミュニティで行動を起こして変化をもたらそう！)
The committee’s resolution emphasized the urgent need for decisive action.(委員会の決議は、決定的な行動の緊急性を強調した。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

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