Nouns denoting acts or actions
- bringing
- the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail)
- upkeep
- activity involved in maintaining something in good working order
- coordination
- the regulation of diverse elements into an integrated and harmonious operation
- trolling
- angling by drawing a baited line through the water
- threshing
- the separation of grain or seeds from the husks and straw
- amplification
- (electronics) the act of increasing voltage or power or current
- rebellion
- refusal to accept some authority or code or convention
- elopement
- the act of running away with a lover (usually to get married)
- tightening
- the act of making something tighter
- adult education
- a course (via lectures or correspondence) for adults who are not otherwise engaged in formal study
- courtesy
- a courteous or respectful or considerate act
- Wars of the Roses
- struggle for the English throne (1455-1485) between the house of York (white rose) and the house of Lancaster (red rose) ending with the accession of the Tudor monarch Henry VII
- pyelography
- roentgenography of the kidney and ureters (usually after injection with a radiopaque dye)
- financing
- the act of financing
- evasion
- the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver
- avulsion
- a forcible tearing or surgical separation of one body part from another
- splashdown
- a landing of a spacecraft in the sea at the end of a space flight
- scissors kick
- a kick used in the sidestroke; legs are brought together in a scissoring motion
- notation
- the activity of representing something by a special system of marks or characters
- meat-packing business
- wholesale packaging of meat for future sale (including slaughtering and processing and distribution to retailers)
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