becoming inflexible or out of date | the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field |
the process of fossilizing a plant or animal that existed in some earlier age; the process of being turned to stone | 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 |
| something done (usually as opposed to something said) |
| a military engagement |
| an act by a government body or supranational organization |
| the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism |
| In firearms terminology, the mechanism that handles the ammunition (loads, locks, fires, and extracts the cartridges). |
| 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 |