Action vs. Plot
Action and Plot Definitions
Action
The state or process of acting or doing
The medical team went into action.
Plot
A small piece of ground, generally used for a specific purpose
A garden plot.
Action
Something that is done or accomplished; a deed. See Usage Note at act.
Plot
A measured area of land; a lot.
Action
Organized activity to accomplish an objective
A problem requiring drastic action.
Plot
A ground plan, as for a building; a diagram.
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Action
The causation of change by the exertion of power or a natural process
The action of waves on a beach.
The action of a drug on blood pressure.
Plot
See graph1.
Action
Habitual or vigorous activity; energy
A woman of action.
Plot
The pattern or sequence of interrelated events in a work of fiction, as a novel or film.
Action
Often actions Behavior or conduct.
Plot
A secret plan to accomplish a hostile or illegal purpose; a scheme.
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Action
(Law) A proceeding brought before a court to obtain relief; a lawsuit.
Plot
To represent graphically, as on a chart
Plot a ship's course.
Action
Armed encounter; combat
Missing in action.
Plot
To locate (points or other figures) on a graph by means of coordinates.
Action
An engagement between troops or ships
Fought a rear-guard action.
Plot
To draw (a curve) connecting points on a graph.
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Action
The most important or exciting work or activity in a specific field or area
Always heads for where the action is.
Plot
To write or develop the plot of
"I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read" (James Baldwin).
Action
A movement or a series of movements, as of an actor.
Plot
To form a plot for; prearrange secretly or deviously
Plot an assassination.
Action
Manner of movement
A horse with fine action.
Plot
To form or take part in a plot; scheme
Were plotting for months before the attack.
Action
The appearance of animation of a figure in painting or sculpture.
Plot
To write or develop the plot for a work of fiction
A good mystery writer must plot well.
Action
The series of events and episodes that form the plot of a story or play
The action of the novel takes place over 40 years in the South.
Plot
(narratology) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
Action
A series or number of fast-moving, exciting, or dangerous events, especially in a movie
Liked the film because there was so much action.
Plot
An area or land used for building on or planting on.
Action
The operating parts of a mechanism.
Plot
A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
Action
The manner in which such parts operate.
Plot
A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable.
The plot would have enabled them to get a majority on the board.
The assassination of Lincoln was part of a larger plot.
Action
The manner in which a musical instrument can be played; playability
A piano with quick action.
Plot
Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
Action
The effort of performing or doing something.
Plot
Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
Action
Something done, often so as to accomplish a purpose.
Plot
A plan; a purpose.
Action
A way of motion or functioning.
Knead bread with a rocking action.
Plot
Attractive physical attributes of characters involved in a story, originating from ironic juxtaposition with the original meaning (course of the story).
I'm not sure what's happening in that show, I mainly watch it for the plot.
Action
Fast-paced activity.
A movie full of exciting action
Plot
To conceive (a crime, misdeed etc).
They had plotted a robbery.
They were plotting against the king.
Action
The way in which a mechanical device acts when used; especially a firearm.
Pressing a piano key causes the action of the hammer on the string
Plot
(transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).
They plotted the number of edits per day.
Action
(firearms) The way in which cartridges are loaded, locked, and extracted from the mechanism.
Pump action shotgun
Plot
(transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
Every five minutes they plotted their position.
Action
(music) The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano, which transfers the motion of the key to the sound-making device.
Plot
A small extent of ground; a plat; as, a garden plot.
Action
The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on a guitar or other string instrument.
Plot
A plantation laid out.
Action
Sexual intercourse.
She gave him some action.
I hope to get a bit of action with the hot guy from the club.
Plot
A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc., drawn to a scale.
Action
(military) Combat.
He saw some action in the Korean War.
Plot
Any scheme, stratagem, secret design, or plan, of a complicated nature, adapted to the accomplishment of some purpose, usually a treacherous and mischievous one; a conspiracy; an intrigue; as, the Rye-house Plot.
I have overheard a plot of death.
O, think what anxious moments pass betweenThe birth of plots and their last fatal periods!
Action
(legal) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
Plot
A share in such a plot or scheme; a participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
And when Christ saith, Who marries the divorced commits adultery, it is to be understood, if he had any plot in the divorce.
Action
(mathematics) A mapping from a pairing of mathematical objects to one of them, respecting their individual structures. The pairing is typically a Cartesian product or a tensor product. The object that is not part of the output is said to act on the other object. In any given context, action is used as an abbreviation for a more fully named notion, like group action or left group action.
Plot
Contrivance; deep reach of thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
Action
(physics) The product of energy and time, especially the product of the Lagrangian and time.
Plot
A plan; a purpose.
Action
The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.
Plot
In fiction, the story of a play, novel, romance, or poem, comprising a complication of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means.
If the plot or intrigue must be natural, and such as springs from the subject, then the winding up of the plot must be a probable consequence of all that went before.
Action
The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.
Plot
To make a plot, map, pr plan, of; to mark the position of on a plan; to delineate.
This treatise plotteth down Cornwall as it now standeth.
Action
(bowling) spin put on the bowling ball.
Plot
To form a scheme of mischief against another, especially against a government or those who administer it; to conspire.
The wicked plotteth against the just.
Action
(obsolete) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds.
Plot
To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme.
The prince did plot to be secretly gone.
Action
(religion) A religious performance or solemn function, i.e. action sermon, a sacramental sermon in the Scots Presbyterian Church.
Plot
To plan; to scheme; to devise; to contrive secretly.
Action
(science) a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings).
Plot
A secret scheme to do something (especially something underhand or illegal);
They concocted a plot to discredit the governor
I saw through his little game from the start
Action
Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually a performance.
The director yelled ‘Action!’ after the cameras started rolling.
Plot
A small area of ground covered by specific vegetation;
A bean plot
A cabbage patch
A briar patch
Action
(Manglish) arrogant
Plot
The story that is told in a novel or play or movie etc.;
The characters were well drawn but the plot was banal
Action
To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.
Plot
A chart or map showing the movements or progress of an object
Action
To initiate a legal action against someone.
Plot
Plan secretly, usually something illegal;
They plotted the overthrow fo the government
Action
A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of power exerted on one body by another; agency; activity; operation; as, the action of heat; a man of action.
One wise in council, one in action brave.
Plot
Make a schematic or technical drawing of that shows how things work or how they are constructed
Action
An act; a thing done; a deed; an enterprise. (pl.): Habitual deeds; hence, conduct; behavior; demeanor.
The Lord is a Good of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
Plot
Make a plat of;
Plat the town
Action
The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.
Action
Movement; as, the horse has a spirited action.
Action
Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun.
Action
Any one of the active processes going on in an organism; the performance of a function; as, the action of the heart, the muscles, or the gastric juice.
Action
Gesticulation; the external deportment of the speaker, or the suiting of his attitude, voice, gestures, and countenance, to the subject, or to the feelings.
Action
The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.
Action
A suit or process, by which a demand is made of a right in a court of justice; in a broad sense, a judicial proceeding for the enforcement or protection of a right, the redress or prevention of a wrong, or the punishment of a public offense.
Action
A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds; hence, in the plural, equivalent to stocks.
The Euripus of funds and actions.
Action
An engagement between troops in war, whether on land or water; a battle; a fight; as, a general action, a partial action.
Action
The mechanical contrivance by means of which the impulse of the player's finger is transmitted to the strings of a pianoforte or to the valve of an organ pipe.
To poke the fire is an act, to reconcile friends who have quarreled is a praiseworthy action.
Action
Something done (usually as opposed to something said);
There were stories of murders and other unnatural actions
Action
The state of being active;
His sphere of activity
He is out of action
Action
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
Action
An act by a government body or supranational organization;
Recent federal action undermined the segregationist position
The United Nations must have the power to propose and organize action without being hobbled by irrelevant issues
The Union action of emancipating Southern slaves
Action
A military engagement;
He saw action in Korea
Action
A process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings);
The action of natural forces
Volcanic activity
Action
The series of events that form a plot;
His novels always have a lot of action
Action
The operating part that transmits power to a mechanism;
The piano had a very stiff action
Action
The trait of being active and energetic and forceful;
A man of action
Action
The most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field;
The action is no longer in technology stocks but in municipal bonds
Gawkers always try to get as close to the action as possible
Action
Institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against;
He was warned that the district attorney would process him
She actioned the company for discrimination
Action
Put in effect;
Carry out a task
Execute the decision of the people
He actioned the operation
