the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field | the way something is with respect to its main attributes |
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 | a politically organized body of people under a single government |
something done (usually as opposed to something said) | the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state |
a military engagement | the territory occupied by a nation |
an act by a government body or supranational organization | the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation |
the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism | a state of depression or agitation |
In firearms terminology, the mechanism that handles the ammunition (loads, locks, fires, and extracts the cartridges). | (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container) |
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 | |