the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field | the act of discharging a gun |
a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong | the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart) |
something done (usually as opposed to something said) | a formal written statement of relinquishment |
a military engagement | the act of venting |
an act by a government body or supranational organization | the sudden giving off of energy |
the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism | the pouring forth of a fluid |
In firearms terminology, the mechanism that handles the ammunition (loads, locks, fires, and extracts the cartridges). | electrical conduction through a gas in an applied electric field |
the trait of being active and energetic and forceful | any of several bodily processes by which substances go out of the body |
the series of events that form a plot | a substance that is emitted or released |
a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings) | |
the state of being active | |