action – English noun declension

English noun forms of action

Noun: action
Singularaction
Pluralactions

Sample Sentences

  • Knead bread with a rocking action.
  • a movie full of exciting action
  • Pressing a piano key causes the action of the hammer on the string.
  • pump-action shotgun
  • Spinola was hovering about the external fittings of the figure with unusual fussiness. When at length he released the left hand it seemed for an almost perceptible moment that the action hung. Then the arm descended and carried out the discard. [1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:]
  • He then took from under his shirts in another drawer a very flat ·25 Beretta automatic with a skeleton grip, extracted the clip and the single round in the barrel and whipped the action to and fro several times, finally pulling the trigger on the empty chamber. [1953, Ian Fleming, “Pink Lights and Champagne”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 57:]
  • The run in bar 12 is almost impossible with this piano's heavy action.
  • You're getting fret buzz because the action is too low.
  • She gave him some action.
  • I hope to get a bit of action with the hot guy from the club.
  • He saw some action in the Korean War.
  • So saying he presented him with two actions of above two thousand livres each. [1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:]
  • the Euripus of funds and actions [1790 November, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], →OCLC:]
  • The Action Sermon is quite simply, then, the eucharistic sermon. [2008, Duncan B. Forrester, Doug Gay, Worship and Liturgy in Context, scm Press, page 88:]
  • The protest was set up in less than three weeks by an ad hoc group called Act Up […] According to Kramer, Act Up will continue AIDS-related organizing, possibly including an action at an early June Washington, D.C., AIDS conference for scientists worldwide. [1987 April 11, Kim Westheimer, “NY Protesters Rip FDA”, in Gay Community News, page 1:]
  • The action starts with the small blind.
  • There was a lot of action on the flop; it was an action flop.

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-eti
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti
5. Proto-Italic *agō
6. Latin agō
7. Latin āctum
8. Proto-Indo-European *-tis
9. Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
10. Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
11. Proto-Italic *-tiō
12. Latin -tiō
13. Latin āctiō
14. Old French aucionbor.
15. Middle English accioun
16. English action
17. From Middle English accioun, accion, from Old French aucion, acciun, from Latin āctiō(n) (“act of doing or making”), from āct(us) + action suffix -iō(n), perfect passive participle of agere (“do, act”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti. See also act, active. By surface analysis, act + -ion. See: Middle English Nouns 'accioun', Latin Nouns 'āctiō'.

Verbs referencing "action"

Russian Nouns экшн, Irish Nouns aicsean.