activity

1. Any specific behavior (synset 100408356)
   "they avoided all recreational activity"
   is a type of: act, deed, human action, human activity - something that people do or cause to happen
   subtypes:

   • update - the act of bringing someone or something up to date
   • variance, variation - an activity that varies from a norm or standard
   • space walk - any kind of physical activity outside a spacecraft by one of the crew
   • domesticity - domestic activities or life
   • operation - the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.)
   • operation - a planned activity involving many people performing various actions
   • pattern, practice - a customary way of operation or behavior
   • diversion, recreation - an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates
   • bag, cup of tea, dish - an activity that you like or at which you are superior
   • follow-up, followup - an activity that continues something that has already begun or that repeats something that has already been done
   • game - a contest with rules to determine a winner
   • play, turn - (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession
   • music - musical activity (singing or whistling etc.)
   • acting, performing, playacting, playing - the performance of a part or role in a drama
   • animation, liveliness - general activity and motion
   • burst, fit - a sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason)
   • work - activity directed toward making or doing something
   • deeds, works - performance of moral or religious acts
   • service - (law) the acts performed by an English feudal tenant for the benefit of his lord which formed the consideration for the property granted to him
   • business, job, line, line of work, occupation - the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money
   • occupation - any activity that occupies a person's attention
   • committal to writing, writing - the activity of putting something in written form
   • role - normal or customary activity of a person in a particular social setting
   • actus reus, misconduct, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct - activity that transgresses moral or civil law
   • dissipation, waste, wastefulness - useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
   • attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try - earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something
   • control - the activity of managing or exerting control over something
   • protection - the activity of protecting someone or something
   • sensory activity - activity intended to achieve a particular sensory result
   • didactics, education, educational activity, instruction, pedagogy, teaching - the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill
   • grooming, preparation, training - activity leading to skilled behavior
   • representation - an activity that stands as an equivalent of something or results in an equivalent
   • creation, creative activity - the human act of creating
   • disassembly, dismantlement, dismantling - the act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery)
   • puncture - the act of puncturing or perforating
   • hunt, hunting, search - the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
   • employment, exercise, usage, use, utilisation, utilization - the act of using
   • military operation, operation - activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign)
   • measure, measurement, measuring, mensuration - the act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule
   • calibration, standardisation, standardization - the act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument
   • organisation, organization - the activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically
   • grouping - the activity of putting things together in groups
   • support, supporting - the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening
   • continuance, continuation - the act of continuing an activity without interruption
   • procedure, process - a particular course of action intended to achieve a result
   • ceremony - any activity that is performed in an especially solemn elaborate or formal way
   • ceremony - the proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion
   • worship - the activity of worshipping
   • activating, activation, energizing - the activity of causing to have energy and be active
   • concealing, concealment, hiding - the activity of keeping something secret
   • emplacement, locating, location, placement, position, positioning - the act of putting something in a certain place
   • provision, supply, supplying - the activity of supplying or providing something
   • demand - the act of demanding
   • pleasure - an activity that affords enjoyment
   • delectation, enjoyment - act of receiving pleasure from something
   • lamentation, mourning - the passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief
   • laughter - the activity of laughing; the manifestation of joy or mirth or scorn
   • market, market place, marketplace - the world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold
   • politics - the activities and affairs involved in managing a state or a government
   • preparation, readying - the activity of putting or setting in order in advance of some act or purpose
   • aid, assist, assistance, help - the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose
   • support - the activity of providing for or maintaining by supplying with money or necessities
   • behavior, behaviour, conduct, doings - manner of acting or controlling yourself
   • behavior, behaviour - (psychology) the aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation
   • leadership, leading - the activity of leading
   • precedence, precedency, precession - the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony)
   • solo - any activity that is performed alone without assistance
   • buzz - a confusion of activity and gossip
   • fun - violent and excited activity
   • outlet, release, vent - activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion
   • last - a person's dying act; the final thing a person can do
   • mystification, obfuscation - the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered
   • negotiation - the activity or business of negotiating an agreement; coming to terms
   • verbalisation, verbalization - the activity of expressing something in words
   • disturbance, perturbation - activity that is a malfunction, intrusion, or interruption
   • timekeeping - the act or process of determining the time
2. The state of being active (synset 114030430)
   "his sphere of activity"; "he is out of action"
   tells us about: active - (of e.g. volcanos) erupting or liable to erupt
   is a type of: state - the way something is with respect to its main attributes
   subtypes:

   • agency - the state of being in action or exerting power
   • busyness, hum - the state of being or appearing to be actively engaged in an activity
   • behavior, behaviour - the action or reaction of something (as a machine or substance) under specified circumstances
   • eructation, eruption, extravasation - (of volcanos) pouring out fumes or lava (or a deposit so formed)
   • operation - the state of being in effect or being operative
   • overdrive - the state of high or excessive activity or productivity or concentration
   • play - a state in which action is feasible
   • swing - a state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity
   same as: action, activeness
3. An organic process that takes place in the body (synset 113461236)
   "respiratory activity"
   is a type of: biological process, organic process - a process occurring in living organisms
   subtypes:

   • control - (physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc
   • breathing, external respiration, respiration, ventilation - the bodily process of inhalation and exhalation; the process of taking in oxygen from inhaled air and releasing carbon dioxide by exhalation
   • respiration - a single complete act of breathing in and out
   • breath - the process of taking in and expelling air during breathing
   • consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake - the process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating)
   • sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice - activities associated with sexual intercourse
   • insemination - the introduction of semen into the genital tract of a female
   • sleeping - the suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic rate
   • reaction, response - a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent
   • crying, tears, weeping - the process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds)
   • ablactation - the cessation of lactation
   • anastalsis - muscular action of the alimentary tract in a direction opposite to peristalsis
   • discharge, emission, expelling - any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body
   • expectoration - the process of coughing up and spitting out
   • festering, maturation, suppuration - (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus
   • healing - the natural process by which the body repairs itself
   • hypostasis - the accumulation of blood in an organ
   • lachrymation, lacrimation, tearing, watering - shedding tears
   • lactation - the production and secretion of milk by the mammary glands
   • opsonisation, opsonization - process whereby opsonins make an invading microorganism more susceptible to phagocytosis
   • overactivity - excessive activity
   • peristalsis, vermiculation - the process of wavelike muscle contractions of the alimentary tract that moves food along
   • diaphoresis, hidrosis, perspiration, sudation, sweating - the process of the sweat glands of the skin secreting a salty fluid
   • phagocytosis - process in which phagocytes engulf and digest microorganisms and cellular debris; an important defense against infection
   • pinocytosis - process by which certain cells can engulf and incorporate droplets of fluid
   • placentation - the formation of the placenta in the uterus
   • psilosis - falling out of hair
   • tanning - process in which skin pigmentation darkens as a result of exposure to ultraviolet light
   • transpiration - the process of giving off or exhaling water vapor through the skin or mucous membranes
   same as: bodily function, bodily process, body process
4. (chemistry) the capacity of a substance to take part in a chemical reaction (synset 114554805)
   "catalytic activity"
   referred to in: chemical science, chemistry - the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions
   is a type of: capability, capacity - the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment
5. A process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings) (synset 113540166)
   "the action of natural forces"; "volcanic activity"
   is a type of: physical process, process - a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states
   subtypes:

   • radiation - the spread of a group of organisms into new habitats
   • absorption - (physics) the process in which incident radiated energy is retained without reflection or transmission on passing through a medium
   • acidification - the process of becoming acid or being converted into an acid
   • adiabatic process - (thermodynamics) any process that occurs without gain or loss of heat
   • aeration - the process of exposing to air (so as to purify)
   • antiredeposition - the process of preventing redeposition
   • capture - any process in which an atomic or nuclear system acquires an additional particle
   • capture - a process whereby a star or planet holds an object in its gravitational field
   • centrifugation - the process of separating substances of different densities by the use of a centrifuge
   • chemical action, chemical change, chemical process - (chemistry) any process determined by the atomic and molecular composition and structure of the substances involved
   • chromatography - a process used for separating mixtures by virtue of differences in absorbency
   • concretion - the formation of stonelike objects within a body organ (e.g., the kidneys)
   • condensation - the process of changing from a gaseous to a liquid or solid state
   • convection - (meteorology) the vertical movement of heat or other properties by massive motion within the atmosphere
   • clotting, coagulation, curdling - the process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid
   • decay - the process of gradually becoming inferior
   • demagnetisation, demagnetization - the process of removing magnetization
   • desorption - changing from an adsorbed state on a surface to a gaseous or liquid state
   • diffusion - (physics) the process in which there is movement of a substance from an area of high concentration of that substance to an area of lower concentration
   • disintegration, dissolution - separation into component parts
   • distillation, distillment - the process of purifying a liquid by boiling it and condensing its vapors
   • drift - the gradual departure from an intended course due to external influences (as a ship or plane)
   • effervescence - the process of bubbling as gas escapes
   • cataphoresis, dielectrolysis, electrophoresis, ionophoresis - the motion of charged particles in a colloid under the influence of an electric field; particles with a positive charge go to the cathode and negative to the anode
   • ecesis, establishment - (ecology) the process by which a plant or animal becomes established in a new habitat
   • extinction - the reduction of the intensity of radiation as a consequence of absorption and radiation
   • extraction - the process of obtaining something from a mixture or compound by chemical or physical or mechanical means
   • feedback - the process in which part of the output of a system is returned to its input in order to regulate its further output
   • filtration - the process whereby fluids pass through a filter or a filtering medium
   • flocculation - the process of flocculating; forming woolly cloudlike aggregations
   • flow - any uninterrupted stream or discharge
   • formation - natural process that causes something to form
   • fossilisation, fossilization - the process of fossilizing a plant or animal that existed in some earlier age; the process of being turned to stone
   • geologic process, geological process - (geology) a natural process whereby geological features are modified
   • curing, hardening, set, solidification, solidifying - the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization
   • inactivation - the process of rendering inactive
   • ion exchange - a process in which ions are exchanged between a solution and an insoluble (usually resinous) solid; widely used in industrial processing
   • ionisation, ionization - the process of ionizing; the formation of ions by separating atoms or molecules or radicals or by adding or subtracting electrons from atoms by strong electric fields in a gas
   • leach, leaching - the process of leaching
   • magnetic induction, magnetisation, magnetization - the process that makes a substance magnetic (temporarily or permanently)
   • materialisation, materialization - the process of coming into being; becoming reality
   • nuclear reaction - (physics) a process that alters the energy or structure or composition of atomic nuclei
   • opacification - the process of becoming cloudy or opaque
   • oscillation - the process of oscillating between states
   • oxygenation - the process of providing or combining or treating with oxygen
   • pair creation, pair formation, pair production - the transformation of a gamma-ray photon into an electron and a positron when the photon passes close to an atomic nucleus
   • phase change, phase transition, physical change, state change - a change from one state (solid or liquid or gas) to another without a change in chemical composition
   • precession of the equinoxes - a slow westward shift of the equinoxes along the plane of the ecliptic caused by precession of the Earth's axis of rotation
   • release - a process that liberates or discharges something
   • saltation - (geology) the leaping movement of sand or soil particles as they are transported in a fluid medium over an uneven surface
   • scattering - the physical process in which particles are deflected haphazardly as a result of collisions
   • sericulture - raising silkworms in order to obtain raw silk
   • sink - (technology) a process that acts to absorb or remove energy or a substance from a system
   • soak, soakage, soaking - the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid)
   • softening - the process of becoming softer
   • sorption - the process in which one substance takes up or holds another (by either absorption or adsorption)
   • source - (technology) a process by which energy or a substance enters a system
   • rigidification, rigidifying, stiffening - the process of becoming stiff or rigid
   • stimulation - (physiology) the effect of a stimulus (on nerves or organs etc.)
   • ecological succession, succession - (ecology) the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established
   • natural selection, selection, survival, survival of the fittest - a natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment
   • synergism, synergy - the working together of two things (muscles or drugs for example) to produce an effect greater than the sum of their individual effects
   • temperature change - a process whereby the degree of hotness of a body (or medium) changes
   • transduction - the process whereby a transducer accepts energy in one form and gives back related energy in a different form
   • transpiration - the passage of gases through fine tubes because of differences in pressure or temperature
   • vitrification - the process of becoming vitreous
   same as: action, natural action, natural process
6. The trait of being active;
   Moving or acting rapidly and energetically (synset 104642461)
   "the level of activity declines with age"
   tells us about:

   • active - characterized by energetic activity
   • inactive - not active physically or mentally
   • active - disposed to take action or effectuate change
   is a type of: trait - a distinguishing feature of your personal nature
   subtypes:

   • animation, brio, invigoration, spiritedness, vivification - quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous
   • dynamism, oomph, pizzaz, pizzazz, zing - the activeness of an energetic personality
   same as: activeness

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