Nouns denoting acts or actions
- game
- a single play of a sport or other contest
- purchasing
- the act of buying
- ill-usage
- cruel or inhumane treatment
- retake
- a shot or scene that is photographed again
- victimless crime
- an act that is legally a crime but that seem to have no victims
- microsurgery
- surgery using operating microscopes and miniaturized precision instruments to perform intricate procedures on very small structures
- insemination
- the act of sowing (of seeds in the ground or, figuratively, of germs in the body or ideas in the mind, etc.)
- upset
- the act of upsetting something
- bruxism
- involuntarily or unconsciously clenching or grinding the teeth, typically during sleep
- kick in the butt
- punishment inflicted by kicking the victim in the behind
- immunologic response
- a bodily defense reaction that recognizes an invading substance (an antigen: such as a virus or fungus or bacteria or transplanted organ) and produces antibodies specific against that antigen
- prayer service
- a service at which people sing hymns and pray together
- instant replay
- the immediate rebroadcast of some action (especially sports action) that has been recorded on videotape
- course of action
- a mode of action
- hypnotherapy
- the use of hypnosis in psychotherapy
- simulation
- the act of imitating the behavior of some situation or some process by means of something suitably analogous (especially for the purpose of study or personnel training)
- pandiculation
- yawning and stretching (as when first waking up)
- impulse
- the act of applying force suddenly
- livery
- the care (feeding and stabling) of horses for pay
- falsehood
- the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting
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