action vs flow

action and flow both are nouns.

action and flow both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
action	Yes	No	Yes	No
flow	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, flow is a hyponym of action; that is, flow is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than action:

action: a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)
flow: any uninterrupted stream or discharge

Other hyponyms of action include radiation, absorption, acidification, adiabatic process, aeration, antiredeposition, capture, capture, centrifugation, chemical action, chemical change, chemical process, chromatography, concretion, condensation, convection, clotting, coagulation, curdling, decay, demagnetisation, demagnetization, desorption, diffusion, disintegration, dissolution, distillation, distillment, drift, effervescence, cataphoresis, dielectrolysis, electrophoresis, ionophoresis, ecesis, establishment, extinction, extraction, feedback, filtration, flocculation, formation, fossilisation, fossilization, geologic process, geological process, curing, hardening, set, solidification, solidifying, inactivation, ion exchange, ionisation, ionization, leach, leaching, magnetic induction, magnetisation, magnetization, materialisation, materialization, nuclear reaction, opacification, oscillation, oxygenation, pair creation, pair formation, pair production, phase change, phase transition, physical change, state change, precession of the equinoxes, release, saltation, scattering, sericulture, sink, soak, soakage, soaking, softening, sorption, source, rigidification, rigidifying, stiffening, stimulation, ecological succession, succession, natural selection, selection, survival, survival of the fittest, synergism, synergy, temperature change, transduction, transpiration, vitrification.

action (noun)	flow (noun)
the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field	the act of flowing or streaming; continuous progression
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 motion characteristic of fluids (liquids or gases)
something done (usually as opposed to something said)	dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas
a military engagement	any uninterrupted stream or discharge
an act by a government body or supranational organization	the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of nonpregnant women from puberty to menopause
the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism	something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously
In firearms terminology, the mechanism that handles the ammunition (loads, locks, fires, and extracts the cartridges).	the amount of fluid that flows in a given time
the trait of being active and energetic and forceful
the series of events that form a plot
a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings)
the state of being active

action (verb)	flow (verb)
put in effect	undergo menstruation
institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against	cover or swamp with water
	fall or flow in a certain way
	move along, of liquids
	move or progress freely as if in a stream
	cause to flow
	be abundantly present

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