English > activity: 6 senses > noun 1, act| Meaning | Any specific behavior. |
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| Example | "they avoided all recreational activity" |
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| Narrower | acting, playing, playacting, performing | The performance of a part or role in a drama |
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| aid, assist, assistance, help | The activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose |
| attempt, effort, endeavor, endeavour, try | earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish / accomplish something |
| 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 |
| burst, fit | A sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason) |
| buzz | A confusion of activity and gossip |
| calibration, standardization, standardisation | The act of checking or adjusting (by comparison with a standard) the accuracy of a measuring instrument |
| ceremony | The proper or conventional behavior on some solemn occasion |
| ceremony | Any activity that is performed in an especially solemn elaborate or formal way |
| concealment, concealing, hiding | The activity of keeping something secret |
| continuance, continuation | The act of continuing an activity without interruption |
| control | The activity of managing or exerting control over something |
| creation, creative activity | The human act of creating |
| cup of tea, bag, dish | An activity that you like or at which you are superior |
| demand | The act of demanding |
| dismantling, dismantlement, disassembly | The act of taking something apart (as a piece of machinery) |
| diversion, recreation | An activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates / stimulates |
| domesticity | domestic / domestic activities or life |
| education, instruction, teaching, pedagogy, didactics, educational activity | The activities of educating / educating or instructing |
| energizing, activating, activation | The activity of causing to have energy and be active |
| enjoyment, delectation | Act of receiving pleasure from something |
| follow-up, followup | An activity that continues something that has already begun or that repeats something that has already been done |
| fun | violent and excited activity |
| game | A contest with rules to determine a winner |
| grouping | The activity of putting things together in groups |
| lamentation, mourning | The passionate and demonstrative activity of expressing grief |
| last | A person's dying act |
| laughter | The activity of laughing |
| leadership, leading | The activity of leading |
| liveliness, animation | general activity and motion |
| market, marketplace, market place | The world of commercial activity where goods and services are bought and sold |
| measurement, measuring, measure, mensuration | The act or process of assigning numbers to phenomena according to a rule |
| music | musical activity (singing / singing / singing or whistling etc.) |
| mystification, obfuscation | The activity of obscuring / obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered |
| negotiation | The activity or business of negotiating an agreement |
| occupation, business, job, line of work, line | The principal activity in your life that you do to earn money |
| occupation | Any activity that occupies a person's attention |
| operation, military operation | Activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign) |
| operation | A planned activity involving many people performing various actions |
| operation | The activity of operating / operating something (a machine or business etc.) |
| organization, organisation | The activity or result of distributing or disposing persons or things properly or methodically |
| perturbation, disturbance | Activity that is a malfunction, intrusion, or interruption |
| placement, location, locating, position, positioning, emplacement | The act of putting something in a certain place |
| pleasure | An activity that affords enjoyment |
| politics | The activities and affairs involved in managing a state or a government |
| practice, pattern | A customary way / way of operation or behavior |
| precession, precedence, precedency | The act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony) |
| preparation, readying | The activity of putting or setting in order in advance of some act or purpose |
| procedure, process | A particular course of action intended to achieve a result |
| protection | The activity of protecting someone or something |
| provision, supply, supplying | The activity of supplying or providing something |
| puncture | The act of puncturing or perforating |
| release, outlet, vent | Activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion |
| representation | An activity that stands as an equivalent of something or results in an equivalent |
| role | normal or customary activity of a person in a particular social setting |
| search, hunt, hunting | The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone |
| sensory activity | Activity intended to achieve a particular sensory result |
| 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 |
| solo | Any activity that is performed alone without assistance |
| space walk | Any kind of physical activity outside a spacecraft by one of the crew |
| support, supporting | The act of bearing the weight of or strengthening |
| support | The activity of providing for or maintaining by supplying with money or necessities |
| timekeeping | The act or process of determining the time |
| training, preparation, grooming | Activity leading to skilled behavior |
| turn, play | (game) the activity of doing something in an agreed succession / succession |
| update | The act of bringing someone or something up to date |
| use, usage, utilization, utilisation, employment, exercise | The act of using |
| variation, variance | An activity that varies from a norm or standard |
| verbalization, verbalisation | The activity of expressing something in words |
| waste, wastefulness, dissipation | useless or profitless activity |
| work | Activity directed toward making or doing something |
| works, deeds | performance of moral or religious acts |
| worship | The activity of worshipping |
| writing, committal to writing | The activity of putting something in written form |
| wrongdoing, wrongful conduct, misconduct, actus reus | Activity that transgresses moral or civil law |
| Broader | act, deed, human action, human activity | Something that people do or cause to happen |
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| Opposite | inactivity | Inactive |
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| Spanish | actividad |
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| Catalan | activitat |
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| Adjectives | active | in operation |
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| active | taking part in an activity |
English > activity: 6 senses > noun 3, process| Meaning | An organic process that takes place in the body. |
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| Example | "respiratory activity" |
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| Synonyms | bodily process, body process, bodily function |
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| Narrower | ablactation | The cessation of lactation |
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| anastalsis | muscular action of the alimentary tract in a direction opposite to peristalsis |
| breath | The process of taking in and expelling air during breathing |
| breathing, external respiration, respiration, ventilation | The bodily process of inhalation and exhalation |
| consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake | The process of taking food into the body through the mouth (as by eating) |
| control | (physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc |
| crying, weeping, tears | The process of shedding tears (usually accompanied by sobs or other inarticulate sounds) |
| 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, suppuration, maturation | (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 |
| insemination | The introduction of semen into the genital tract of a female |
| lacrimation, lachrymation, tearing, watering | shedding tears |
| lactation | The production and secretion of milk by the mammary glands |
| opsonization, opsonisation | 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 |
| perspiration, sweating, diaphoresis, sudation, hidrosis | 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 |
| 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 |
| reaction, response | A bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent |
| respiration | A single complete act of breathing ... / breathing in and out |
| sexual activity, sexual practice, sex, sex activity | Activities associated with sexual intercourse |
| sleeping | The suspension of consciousness and decrease in metabolic rate |
| 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 |
| Broader | organic process, biological process | A process occurring in living organisms |
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| Spanish | función corporal, proceso corporal |
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| Catalan | funció corporal, procés corporal |
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| Adjectives | active | tending to become more severe or wider in scope |
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English > activity: 6 senses > noun 5, process| Meaning | A process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings). |
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| Example | "volcanic activity" |
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| Synonyms | natural process, natural action, action |
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| Narrower | absorption | (physics) the process in which incident radiated energy is retained without reflection or transmission on passing through a medium |
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| 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 process, chemical change, chemical action | (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 / heat or other properties by massive motion within the atmosphere |
| curdling, clotting, coagulation | The process of forming semisolid lumps in a liquid / liquid |
| decay | The process of gradually becoming inferior |
| demagnetization, demagnetisation | 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 |
| dissolution, disintegration | separation into component parts |
| distillation, distillment | The process of purifying a liquid / 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 |
| electrophoresis, cataphoresis, dielectrolysis, ionophoresis | The motion of charged particles in a colloid under the influence of an electric field |
| establishment, ecesis | (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 |
| flow | Any uninterrupted stream or discharge |
| formation | natural process that causes something to form |
| fossilization, fossilisation | The process of fossilizing a plant or animal that existed in some earlier age |
| geological process, geologic process | (geology) a natural process whereby geological features are modified |
| hardening, solidifying, solidification, set, curing | 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 |
| ionization, ionisation | The process of ionizing / ionizing |
| leach, leaching | The process of leaching / leaching / leaching |
| magnetization, magnetisation, magnetic induction | The process that makes a substance magnetic (temporarily or permanently) |
| materialization, materialisation | The process of coming into being |
| 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 production, pair creation, pair formation | 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, state change, physical change | A change from one state (solid or liquid / 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 |
| radiation | The spread of a group of organisms into new habitats |
| 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 / 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 / immersed in water (or other liquid / 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 |
| stiffening, rigidifying, rigidification | The process of becoming stiff or rigid |
| stimulation | (physiology) the effect of a stimulus (on nerves or organs etc.) |
| succession, ecological 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 |
| survival, survival of the fittest, natural selection, selection | A natural process resulting in the evolution of organisms best adapted to the environment |
| synergy, synergism | 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 / 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 |
| Broader | process, physical process | A sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states |
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| Spanish | acción, acción natural, proceso natural |
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| Catalan | procés natural |
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| Adjectives | active | (of e.g. volcanos) erupting or liable to erupt |
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| active | (of the sun) characterized by an increased occurrence of sunspots and flares and radio emissions |
