In action

Definition

action /'ækʃn/ n ၁။ [U] တက္တက္ၾကႂကြလႈပ္ရွားမႈ။ အလုပ္။ a man of action ❍ I only like films that have got plenty of action. ❍ The time has come for action. ၂။ [U] လုပ္ေဆာင္ခ်က္။ လုပ္ရပ္။ Her quick action saved his life. ❍ You must judge people by their actions, not by what they say. ၃။ အေရးယူေဆာင္ရြက္မႈ။ တစ္စံုတစ္ရာ အျပဳအမူ။ 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] ျဖစ္ပ်က္ပံု ဇာတ္ေၾကာင္း။ The action is set in France. ၅။ [sing] ~ on sth သက္ေရာက္မႈ။ The action of salt on ice causes it to melt. ၆။ [U] တိုက္ခိုက္ျခင္း။ military action ❍ the destruction caused by enemy action. ၇။ တိုက္ပြဲ။ killed in action ❍ He saw (ie was involved in) action in North Africa. ၈။ [C] အမႈ။ He brought an action against her (ie tried to win a case against her in a lawcourt). ၉။ [C] လႈပ္ရွားမႈ။ လႈပ္ရွားပံု။ study the action of the liver ❍ Tennis needs a good wrist action. ❍ bolt action rifle. ❏ actionable adj (တရားဥပေဒႏွင့္) ၿငိစြန္း[ေသာ]။ အေႏွာင့္ အသြား မလြတ္ [ေသာ]။ Be careful what you say—your remarks may be actionable. ❏ action group n (ႏိုင္ငံေရး) လႈပ္ရွားစည္း႐ံုးေရး အဖြဲ႕၊ ေကာ္မတီ။ the Child Poverty Action Group. ❏ action-packed adj သြက္လက္ျမဴးႂကြေသာ။ an action-packed holiday. ❏ action replay n (႐ုပ္ရွင္စသည္) အေႏွးတစ္ဖန္ ျပျခင္း။ ❏ actions speak louder than words [ IDM ] ( saying ) လူေျပာမသန္၊ လူသန္မေျပာ။ ❏ action stations n [pl] ၁။ ေနရာယူ (စစ္မိန္႔)။ ၂။ ကိုယ့္ ေနရာကိုယ္ေန ေဟ့။ (fig) Action stations, I can hear the boss coming! ❏ in action [ IDM ] သက္ဝင္လႈပ္ရွားပံု။ I've heard she's a marvellous player but I've never seen her in action. ❏ into action [ IDM ] (စီမံကိန္းစသည္) အေကာင္အထည္ ေဖာ္သည္။ (တိုက္ပြဲစသည္)ဝင္သည္။ put a plan into action ❍ At daybreak the troops went into action (ie started fighting). ❏ out of action [ IDM ] ပ်က္သည္။ အလုပ္မလုပ္ႏိုင္။ မလႈပ္ရွားႏိုင္။ မလည္ပတ္ႏိုင္။ 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 ) လုပ္ငန္းမွ အက်ဳိးအျမတ္။ I'm only putting money into this outfit if I get a slice of the action. ❏ where the action is [ IDM ] ( infml ) ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္ဖြယ္ စည္ကား၍ စီးပြားျဖစ္ရာေနရာေဒသ။ ေျခခင္းလက္ခင္းသာရာ။ အလုပ္ျဖစ္ရာ။ Life in the country can be very dull—London's where all the action is.

Examples

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