Synonym: battle, behavior, performance, reaction. Similar words: reaction, fraction, attraction, take action, interaction, practitioner, transaction, fiction. Meaning: ['ækʃn] n. 1. something done (usually as opposed to something said) 2. the state of being active 3. 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 4. an act by a government body or supranational organization 5. a military engagement 6. a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings) 7. the series of events that form a plot 8. the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism 9. the trait of being active and energetic and forceful 10. the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field. v. 1. institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against 2. put in effect.
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(1) Action is the proper fruit of knowledge. 
(2) Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
(3) Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
(4) Counsel after action is like rain after harvest.
(5) Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of glittering illusions.
(6) Choose a life of action, not one of ostentation.
(7) Thought is the seed of action.
(8) Deliberate in counsel, prompt in action.
(9) The past is for wisdom, the present for action, but for joy the future.
(10) The only cure for grief is action.
(11) Life is measured by thought and action, not by time.
(12) A common danger causes common action.
(13) Suit the action to the word.
(14) There's no denying that quicker action could have saved them.
(15) The rules will be brought into action tomorrow.
(16) Public opinion can force the government into action. Sentencedict.com
(17) His speech was a powerful spur to action.
(18) The newspapers exclaimed against the government's action.
(19) Action may not always bring happines.
(20) Firefighters took action immediately to stop the blaze spreading.
(21) I am sorry I must disapprove your action.
(22) Despite threats of strike action, the management remain hopeful that an agreement can be reached.
(23) Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
(24) handicaps a man's pow Sadness diminishes or er of action.
(25) Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. We cannot learn men from books.
(26) Words and deeds are quite indifferent 23modes of the divine 24energy. Words are also action, and actions are a kind of words.
(27) Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. James Russell Lowell
(28) A man is not good or bad for one action.
(29) If democracy is to survive, it is the task of men of thoughts, as well as men of action, to put aside pride and prejudice; and with courage and single-minded devotion---- to find the truth and teach the truth that shall keep men free.
(30) You can finish the longest road step by step. But you may be unable to finish the shortest road if you have no action of striding.
More similar words: reaction, fraction, attraction, take action, interaction, practitioner, transaction, fiction, auction, section, sanction, function, election, reduction, selection, objection, infection, protection, connection, production, functional, and function, inspection, prediction, collection, projection, distinction, conviction, reflection, destruction.