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action vs operation

operation vs action

action and operation both are nouns.

action is a verb but operation is not a verb.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
action Yes No Yes No
operation Yes No No No
As nouns, operation is a hyponym of action; that is, operation is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than action:
  • action: the state of being active
  • operation: the state of being in effect or being operative
Other hyponyms of action include agency, busyness, hum, behavior, behaviour, eructation, eruption, extravasation, overdrive, play, swing.
action (noun) operation (noun)
the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
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 (mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods
something done (usually as opposed to something said) activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign)
a military engagement a planned activity involving many people performing various actions
an act by a government body or supranational organization a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work
the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism a business especially one run on a large scale
In firearms terminology, the mechanism that handles the ammunition (loads, locks, fires, and extracts the cartridges). the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.)
the trait of being active and energetic and forceful (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents
the series of events that form a plot (computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction)
a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings) process or manner of functioning or operating
the state of being active the state of being in effect or being operative
action (verb) operation (verb)
put in effect
institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against
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