the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field | changing location by moving back and forth |
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 | in baseball; a batter's attempt to hit a pitched ball |
something done (usually as opposed to something said) | the act of swinging a golf club at a golf ball and (usually) hitting it |
a military engagement | a square dance figure; a pair of dancers join hands and dance around a point between them |
an act by a government body or supranational organization | a sweeping blow or stroke |
the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism | mechanical device used as a plaything to support someone swinging back and forth |
In firearms terminology, the mechanism that handles the ammunition (loads, locks, fires, and extracts the cartridges). | a jaunty rhythm in music |
the trait of being active and energetic and forceful | a style of jazz played by big bands popular in the 1930s; flowing rhythms but less complex than later styles of jazz |
the series of events that form a plot | a state of steady vigorous action that is characteristic of an activity |
a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings) | |
the state of being active | |