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1. |
[ noun ] any specific activity or pursuit |
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"they avoided all recreational activity"
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inactivity
act
occupation
use
work
market
game
attempt
training
procedure
education
behavior
aid
practice
diversion
measurement
protection
support
demand
search
preparation
worship
variation
leadership
operation
role
creation
acting
presentation
control
organization
turn
ceremony
waste
provision
perturbation
cinch
support
ceremony
continuance
writing
concealment
location
enjoyment
dismantling
works
grouping
occupation
liveliness
burst
last
solo
fun
buzz
bag
release
sin
timekeeping
puncture
service
energizing
wrongdoing
domesticity
pleasure
behavior
precession
representation
sensory_activity
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2. |
[ noun ] the state of being active |
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action
activeness
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"his sphere of activity"
"he is out of action"
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inaction
inaction
inaction
state
operation
behavior
play
agency
swing
overdrive
eruption
busyness
act
active
active
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3. |
[ noun ] (biology) an organic process that takes place in the body |
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bodily_function
body_process
bodily_process
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"respiratory activity"
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organic_process
reaction
breath
sexual_activity
control
crying
consumption
breathing
discharge
respiration
healing
lacrimation
festering
ablactation
overactivity
placentation
expectoration
perspiring
anastalsis
opsonisation
respiration
peristalsis
phagocytosis
lactation
hypostasis
diaphoresis
sleeping
pinocytosis
psilosis
tanning
insemination
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4. |
[ noun ] (chemistry) the capacity of a substance to take part in a chemical reaction |
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"catalytic activity"
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capability
chemistry
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5. |
[ noun ] a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings) |
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action
natural_action
natural_process
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"the action of natural forces"
"volcanic activity"
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process
phase_change
diffusion
aeration
chromatography
transpiration
flow
washing
distillation
absorption
sorption
release
fractionation
centrifugation
decay
desorption
flocculation
ion_exchange
dissolution
stiffening
soak
capture
temperature_change
softening
synergy
feedback
drift
oscillation
formation
antiredeposition
electrophoresis
vitrification
adiabatic_process
organic_process
opacification
curdling
nuclear_reaction
geological_process
rigidification
source
sink
effervescence
magnetization
ionization
leach
induction
demagnetization
capture
acidification
convection
survival
condensation
sericulture
transduction
filtration
extraction
ignition
precession_of_the_equinoxes
scattering
pair_production
fossilization
stimulation
extinction
concretion
establishment
succession
oxygenation
saltation
inactivation
materialisation
chemical_process
hardening
radiation
absolute_zero
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6. |
[ noun ] (physics) the spontaneous emission of a stream of particles or electromagnetic rays in nuclear decay |
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radioactivity
radiation
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inactivity
radiation
act
emission
practice
variation
corpuscular_radiation
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7. |
[ noun ] the trait of being active; moving or acting rapidly and energetically |
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activeness
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"the level of activity declines with age"
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inactiveness
trait
animation
dynamism
active
active
inactive
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activist
acidify
active_site
activism
actively
active
activistic
activation
activating
Actifed
activate
Activase
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