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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Action \Ac"tion\, n. [OF. action, L. actio, fr. 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 body by another; agency; activity;
operation; as, the action of heat; a man of action.
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One wise in council, one in action brave. --Pope.
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2. An act; a thing done; a deed; an enterprise. (pl.):
Habitual deeds; hence, conduct; behavior; demeanor.
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The Lord is a Good of knowledge, and by him actions
are weighed. --1 Sam. ii.
3.
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3. The event or connected series of events, either real or
imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other
composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.
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4. Movement; as, the horse has a spirited action.
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5. (Mech.) Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech
action of a gun.
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6. (Physiol.) Any one of the active processes going on in an
organism; the performance of a function; as, the action of
the heart, the muscles, or the gastric juice.
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7. (Orat.) Gesticulation; the external deportment of the
speaker, or the suiting of his attitude, voice, gestures,
and countenance, to the subject, or to the feelings.
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8. (Paint. & Sculp.) The attitude or position of the several
parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or
passion depicted.
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9. (Law)
(a) A suit or process, by which a demand is made of a
right in a court of justice; in a broad sense, a
judicial proceeding for the enforcement or protection
of a right, the redress or prevention of a wrong, or
the punishment of a public offense.
(b) A right of action; as, the law gives an action for
every claim.
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10. (Com.) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock
company, or in the public funds; hence, in the plural,
equivalent to stocks. [A Gallicism] [Obs.]
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The Euripus of funds and actions. --Burke.
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11. An engagement between troops in war, whether on land or
water; a battle; a fight; as, a general action, a partial
action.
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12. (Music) The mechanical contrivance by means of which the
impulse of the player's finger is transmitted to the
strings of a pianoforte or to the valve of an organ pipe.
--Grove.
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{Chose in action}. (Law) See {Chose}.
{Quantity of action} (Physics), the product of the mass of a
body by the space it runs through, and its velocity.
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Syn: {Action}, {Act}.
Usage: In many cases action and act are synonymous; but some
distinction is observable. Action involves the mode or
process of acting, and is usually viewed as occupying
some time in doing. Act has more reference to the
effect, or the operation as complete.
To poke the fire is an act, to reconcile friends
who have quarreled is a praiseworthy action.
--C. J. Smith.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Chose \Chose\, n.; pl. {Choses}. [F., fr. L. causa cause,
reason. See {Cause}.] (Law)
A thing; personal property.
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{Chose in action}, a thing of which one has not possession or
actual enjoyment, but only a right to it, or a right to
demand it by action at law, and which does not exist at
the time in specie; a personal right to a thing not
reduced to possession, but recoverable by suit at law; as
a right to recover money due on a contract, or damages for
a tort, which can not be enforced against a reluctant
party without suit.
{Chose in possession}, a thing in possession, as
distinguished from a thing in action.
{Chose local}, a thing annexed to a place, as a mill.
{Chose transitory}, a thing which is movable. --Cowell.
Blount.
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|+ สถานที่| ใน, ที่ (ขึ้นกับรูปประโยค ถ้าบ่งการเดินทางเคลื่อนไหว แปลว่า ไปที่ ไปใน ซึ่ง in + Akk. แต่ถ้าบ่งการเป็นอยู่ in + Dat.) เช่น (1) Ich war in den Alpen letzte Woche. ผมอยู่ที่เทือกเขาแอลป์เมื่อสัปดาห์ที่แล้ว (2) Ich fahre in die Alpen diese Woche. ผมจะไปยังเทือกเขาแอลป์อาทิตย์นี้ [LongdoDE]
|+D เมื่อกริยาไม่บ่งอาการเคลื่อนไหว| ที่ เช่น Der Zug hält in Spanien. รถไฟจอดที่สเปน (ชื่อประเทศส่วนใหญ่ไม่มีคำนำหน้านามหรือ Artikel)[LongdoDE]
กำลังเป็นที่นิยม เช่น Schönsein ist in. ความงามกำลังเป็นที่นิยม [LongdoDE]
(อิน) prep. ใน, ภายใน, ข้างใน, ในระหว่าง, ในสภาพ, ในภาวะ, ในข้อที่ว่า. ###SW. in that เนื่องจาก, เพราะว่า. in so far as ตราบใดที่ -adv. ใน, ภายใน, อยู่ข้างใน, ในบ้าน, ในที่ทำงาน, ในตำแหน่ง, ในฤดูเก็บเกี่ยว, ในการบริหารงาน, สอดคล้องกับ -adj. [Hope]
แสดงได้ทั้งความหมายของคำเดี่ยว และคำผสม ได้อย่างถูกต้อง
เช่น Secretary of State=รัฐมนตรีต่างประเทศของสหรัฐฯ (ในภาพตัวอย่าง),
High school=โรงเรียนมัธยมปลาย
