activity

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noun

1. any specific behavior (Freq. 43)
- they avoided all recreational activity
• Ant:
inactivity
• Derivationally related forms:
active
• Hypernyms:
act, deed, human action, human activity
• Hyponyms:
variation, variance, space walk, domesticity, operation,
practice, pattern, diversion, recreation, cup of tea, bag,
dish, follow-up, followup, game, turn, play,
music, acting, playing, playacting, performing, liveliness,
animation, burst, fit, work, works, deeds,
service, occupation, business, job, line of work, line,
writing, committal to writing, role, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct, misconduct,
actus reus, waste, wastefulness, dissipation, attempt, effort,
endeavor, endeavour, try, control, protection, sensory activity,
education, instruction, teaching, pedagogy, didactics, educational activity,
training, preparation, grooming, representation, creation, creative activity,
dismantling, dismantlement, disassembly, puncture, search, hunt,
hunting, use, usage, utilization, utilisation, employment,
exercise, military operation, measurement, measuring, measure, mensuration,
calibration, standardization, standardisation, organization, organisation, grouping,
support, supporting, continuance, continuation, procedure, process,
ceremony, worship, energizing, activating, activation, concealment,
concealing, hiding, placement, location, locating, position,
positioning, emplacement, provision, supply, supplying, demand,
pleasure, enjoyment, delectation, lamentation, mourning, laughter,
market, marketplace, market place, politics, readying, aid,
assist, assistance, help, behavior, behaviour, conduct,
doings, leadership, leading, precession, precedence, precedency,
solo, buzz, fun, sin, hell, release,
outlet, vent, last, mystification, obfuscation, negotiation,
verbalization, verbalisation, perturbation, disturbance, timekeeping
2. the state of being active (Freq. 36)
- his sphere of activity
- he is out of action
• Syn:
action, activeness
• Ant:
inactiveness (for: activeness), inactivity, inaction (for: action)
• Derivationally related forms:
active (for: activeness), active, act (for: action)
• Hypernyms:
state
• Hyponyms:
agency, busyness, hum, behavior, behaviour,
behaviour, eructation, extravasation, operation, overdrive,
play, swing
• Attrubites:
active
3. an organic process that takes place in the body (Freq. 13)
- respiratory activity
• Syn:
bodily process, body process, bodily function
• Derivationally related forms:
active
• Hypernyms:
organic process, biological process
• Hyponyms:
control, breathing, external respiration, respiration, ventilation,
breath, consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake, sexual activity,
sexual practice, sex, sex activity, insemination, sleeping, reaction,
response, crying, weeping, tears, ablactation, anastalsis,
discharge, emission, expelling, expectoration, festering, suppuration,
maturation, healing, hypostasis, lacrimation, lachrymation, tearing,
watering, lactation, opsonization, opsonisation, overactivity, peristalsis,
vermiculation, perspiration, sweating, diaphoresis, sudation, hidrosis,
phagocytosis, pinocytosis, placentation, psilosis, tanning, transpiration
4. (chemistry) the capacity of a substance to take part in a chemical reaction
- catalytic activity
• Derivationally related forms:
active
• Topics:
chemistry, chemical science
• Hypernyms:
capability, capacity
5. a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)
- the action of natural forces
- volcanic activity
• Syn:
natural process, natural action, action
• Derivationally related forms:
active
• Hypernyms:
process, physical process
• Hyponyms:
radiation, absorption, acidification, adiabatic process, aeration,
antiredeposition, capture, centrifugation, chemical process, chemical change, chemical action,
chromatography, concretion, condensation, convection, curdling, clotting,
coagulation, decay, demagnetization, demagnetisation, desorption, diffusion,
dissolution, disintegration, distillation, distillment, drift, effervescence,
electrophoresis, cataphoresis, dielectrolysis, ionophoresis, establishment, ecesis,
extinction, extraction, feedback, filtration, flocculation, flow,
formation, fossilization, fossilisation, geological process, geologic process, hardening,
solidifying, solidification, set, curing, inactivation, ion exchange,
ionization, ionisation, leach, leaching, magnetization, magnetisation,
magnetic induction, materialization, materialisation, nuclear reaction, opacification, oscillation,
oxygenation, pair production, pair creation, pair formation, phase change, phase transition,
state change, physical change, precession of the equinoxes, release, saltation, scattering,
sericulture, sink, soak, soakage, soaking, softening,
sorption, source, stiffening, rigidifying, rigidification, stimulation,
succession, ecological succession, survival, survival of the fittest, natural selection, selection,
synergy, synergism, temperature change, transduction, transpiration, vitrification
6. the trait of being active;
moving or acting rapidly and energetically
- the level of activity declines with age
• Syn:
activeness
• Ant:
inactiveness (for: activeness)
• Derivationally related forms:
active, active (for: activeness)
• Hypernyms:
trait
• Hyponyms:
animation, spiritedness, invigoration, brio, vivification,
dynamism, pizzazz, pizzaz, oomph, zing
• Attrubites:
active, inactive

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  activeness, natural process, natural action, action, bodily process, body process, bodily function
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  inactiveness, inactivity, inertia, inaction