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行動 — meaning in English

kōdō

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English meaning

  • act verb To do something; to take action.
  • action noun The process of doing something, especially to achieve a purpose.
  • behave verb To act in a particular way, or to act properly and politely.
  • behavior noun The way a person, animal, or system acts, especially in response to a situation.
  • spur noun A spiked device worn on a rider's boot heel to urge a horse forward.

Senses

行動 is used for these senses in English:

  • act (countable) Something done, a deed.
  • act (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
  • act (intransitive, mathematics, construed with on or upon, of an algebraic structure) To possess an action onto (some other structure). Examples include the group action of a group on a set, the action of a ring on a module by scalar multiplication, and the action of a group or algebra on a vector space via a representation.
  • action Something done, often so as to accomplish a purpose.
  • action (mathematics) A way in which each element of some algebraic structure transforms some other structure or set, in a way which respects the structure of the first. Formally, this may be seen as a morphism from the first structure into some structure of endomorphisms of the second; for example, a group action of a group G on a set S can be seen as a group homomorphism from G into the set of bijections on S (which form a group under function composition), while a module M over a ring R can be defined as an abelian group together with a ring homomorphism from R into the ring of group endomorphisms of M (which is also called the action of R on M).
  • behave (intransitive) To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner; used with an adverbial of manner.
  • behavior (countable, uncountable) The way a living creature behaves or acts generally.
  • behavior (uncountable) The way a device or system operates.

act — full definition

  1. verb To do something; to take action.
  2. verb To perform a role in a play, film, or show.
  3. verb To behave in a particular way.
  4. noun Something done; a deed.
  5. noun A law passed by a legislative body.

action — full definition

  1. noun The process of doing something, especially to achieve a purpose.
  2. noun Exciting or fast-paced activity, especially in a film or story.
  3. noun A formal legal proceeding; a lawsuit.
  4. noun The mechanism of a device, such as a firearm or musical instrument, that makes it work.

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