out of action

US pronunciation

American soundout of action

outofaction

Syllables: 3 syllables
Stress: Use the US audio for stress
Vowel: Spelling-based estimate
Ending: Final -tion sounds like shun

out - of - action -> out of action

Myanmar meaning

(idm) ပျက်သည်။ အလုပ်မလုပ်နိုင်။ မလှုပ်ရှားနိုင်။ မလည်ပတ်နိုင်။

Full entry

action /'ækʃn/ n

၁။ [U] တက်တက်ကြကြွလှုပ်ရှားမှု။ အလုပ်။ a man of action ❍ I only like films that have got plenty of action. ❍ The time has come for action.
၂။ [U] လုပ်ဆောင်ချက်။ လုပ်ရပ်။ Her quick action saved his life. ❍ You must judge people by their actions, not by what they say.
၃။ အရေးယူဆောင်ရွက်မှု။ တစ်စုံတစ်ရာ အပြုအမူ။ Immediate action must be taken to stop the fire spreading. ❍ Not wanting to be seen by the others, he took evasive action and hid in the crowd.
၄။ [U] ဖြစ်ပျက်ပုံ ဇာတ်ကြောင်း။ The action is set in France.
၅။ [sing] ~ on sth သက်ရောက်မှု။ The action of salt on ice causes it to melt.
၆။ [U] တိုက်ခိုက်ခြင်း။ military action ❍ the destruction caused by enemy action.
၇။ တိုက်ပွဲ။ killed in action ❍ He saw (ie was involved in) action in North Africa.
၈။ [C] အမှု။ He brought an action against her (ie tried to win a case against her in a lawcourt).
၉။ [C] လှုပ်ရှားမှု။ လှုပ်ရှားပုံ။ study the action of the liver ❍ Tennis needs a good wrist action. ❍ bolt action rifle.
❏ actionable adj (တရားဥပဒေနှင့်) ငြိစွန်း[သော]။ အနှောင့် အသွား မလွတ် [သော]။ Be careful what you say—your remarks may be actionable.
❏ action group n (နိုင်ငံရေး) လှုပ်ရှားစည်းရုံးရေး အဖွဲ့၊ ကော်မတီ။ the Child Poverty Action Group.
❏ action-packed adj သွက်လက်မြူးကြွသော။ an action-packed holiday.
❏ action replay n (ရုပ်ရှင်စသည်) အနှေးတစ်ဖန် ပြခြင်း။
❏ actions speak louder than words [IDM ] (saying ) လူပြောမသန်၊ လူသန်မပြော။
❏ action stations n [pl]
၁။ နေရာယူ (စစ်မိန့်)။
၂။ ကိုယ့် နေရာကိုယ်နေ ဟေ့။ (fig) Action stations, I can hear the boss coming!
❏ in action [IDM ] သက်ဝင်လှုပ်ရှားပုံ။ I've heard she's a marvellous player but I've never seen her in action.
❏ into action [IDM ] (စီမံကိန်းစသည်) အကောင်အထည် ဖော်သည်။ (တိုက်ပွဲစသည်)ဝင်သည်။ put a plan into action ❍ At daybreak the troops went into action (ie started fighting).
❏ out of action [IDM ] ပျက်သည်။ အလုပ်မလုပ်နိုင်။ မလှုပ်ရှားနိုင်။ မလည်ပတ်နိုင်။ The machine is out of action. ❍ The enemy guns put many of our tanks out of action. ❍ I've been out of action for several weeks with a broken leg.
❏ a piece/slice of the action [IDM ] (infml ) လုပ်ငန်းမှ အကျိုးအမြတ်။ I'm only putting money into this outfit if I get a slice of the action.
❏ where the action is [IDM ] (infml ) ပျော်ရွှင်ဖွယ် စည်ကား၍ စီးပွားဖြစ်ရာနေရာဒေသ။ ခြေခင်းလက်ခင်းသာရာ။ အလုပ်ဖြစ်ရာ။ Life in the country can be very dull—London's where all the action is.

More examples

Officials are not planning any drastic action.
[take action] : We urge the authorities to take action.
[course of action] : We have three possible courses of action.
The strikers voted to suspend their action.
[bring an action (against someone)] : The magazine will fight the libel action brought by the Prime Minister.
How can you justify your actions?
She found herself copying his actions.
Reflex actions such as swallowing
I’ll sing and you can do the actions.
[action of] : This switch slows down the action of the pump.
The erosive action of a great glacier
[the action of something (on something)] : The action of certain chemicals on the brain
Can military action be avoided?
[killed/missing/wounded in action] : A list of soldiers missing in action
[see action] : We’ve been told we’re unlikely to see action.
Where’s all the action in this town?
In Scene 1, the action takes place in an expensive restaurant.

Synonyms

act, deed, exploit, achievement, accomplishment, feat, stroke, activity, agility, alacrity, alertness, animation, bag, ballgame, battle, be found, be present, bechance, befall, being present, big idea, bit, blow, bribe, business, bustle, buy back, case, cause, charge, claim, clash, combat, come to pass, commission, commotion, conflict, contest, cook up a storm, cook with gas, cooking with gas, crop up, dash, deal, dealings, delve, disenable, do business, dogfight, doing, effort, encounter, energy, engagement, enterprise, eventualize, execution, exercise, exertion, fight, fighting, flurry, force, fray, functioning, game, gel, gelling, get to, getting to, going, got to, gouge out, grease palm, handiwork, happening, haste, hogtie, hoopla, hopper, immobilize, in the works, individual deed, industry, jump into, lawsuit, leave no stone unturned, life, litigation, liveliness, make a deal, maneuver, manipulation, motion, move, movement, occupation, occur, oil palm, operation, paid off, pay off, paying off, performance, pinion, pinioned, pinions, plan, power, present itself, procedure, proceeding, proceedings, process, proposition, prosecution, put out of action, racket, raid, reaction, really get into, render incapable, response, rush, scene, scoop out, shoot down, shot down, skirmish, smoking, soaping, something done, spirit, step, stir, stunt, sugared, sugaring, suit, sweeten the pot, take care of, take out, take place, taking out, taking place, throw monkey wrench in, thrust, transaction, trip, trowel, turmoil, turn inside out, unbrace, undertaking, unfitted, unfitting, unstrengthen, vigor, vim, vitality

Antonyms

agreement, apathy, calm, calmness, cessation, defeat, dullness, failure, harmony, idleness, inaction, inactivity, indolence, inertia, laziness, lethargy, neglect, peace, question, quiet, repose, rest, retreat, slowness, stiffness, stillness, stoppage, surrender, truce, unemployment, weakness, yielding