different between action vs kita

English

Etymology

From Middle English accion, from Old French aucion,acciun, from Latin ?cti? (“act of doing or making”), from ?ctus, perfect passive participle of ag? (“do, act”), + action suffix -i?; see act.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æk.??n/
• Rhymes: -æk??n
• Hyphenation: ac?tion

Noun

action (countable and uncountable, plural actions)

1. Something done, often so as to accomplish a purpose.
2. A way of motion or functioning.

3. Fast-paced activity.

4. A mechanism; a moving part or assembly.

5. (music) The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano, which transfers the motion of the key to the sound-making device.
6. (music) The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on a guitar.
7. (slang) Sexual intercourse.

8. (military) Combat.

9. (law) A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
10. (mathematics) A mapping from a pairing of mathematical objects to one of them, respecting their individual structures. The pairing is typically a Cartesian product or a tensor product. The object that is not part of the output is said to act on the other object. In any given context, action is used as an abbreviation for a more fully named notion, like group action or left group action.
11. (physics) The product of energy and time, especially the product of the Lagrangian and time.
12. The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.
13. (art, painting and sculpture) The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.
14. (bowling) spin put on the bowling ball.
15. (obsolete) A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds.
    • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. IV, ch. 106:

      So saying he presented him with two actions of above two thousand livres each.

    • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

      the Euripus of funds and actions

Synonyms

• (something done): deed; see also Thesaurus:action

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? German: Action
• ? Russian: ???? (ekšn)

Translations

See also

• deed
• Appendix:Collocations of do, have, make, and take

References

• action on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Interjection

action!

1. Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually a performance.

   Antonym: cut

Translations

Verb

action (third-person singular simple present actions, present participle actioning, simple past and past participle actioned)

1. (transitive, management) To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.
2. (transitive, chiefly archaic) To initiate a legal action against someone.

Usage notes

• The verb sense action is rejected by some usage authorities.

References

• OED 2nd edition 1989
• Notes:

Further reading

• action in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• action in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Catino, actino-, atonic, cation, cation-?

French

Etymology

From Old French acciun, aucion, etymologically reconstructed in Middle French to resemble the Latin acti?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ak.sj??/
• Homophone: axion

Noun

action f (plural actions)

1. action, act, deed

2. campaign

3. stock, share

4. (Switzerland) a special offer

Derived terms

Further reading

• “action” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• cation, contai

Interlingua

Noun

action (plural actiones)

1. action

Related terms

• active
• activitate

Middle English

Noun

action

1. Alternative form of accion

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French acciun, aucion, etymologically reconstructed to resemble the Latin acti?.

Noun

action f (plural actions)

1. action; act

Descendants

• French: action

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English accion.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ak???n/

Noun

action (plural actions)

1. action

Verb

action (third-person singular present actions, present participle actionin, past actiont, past participle actiont)

1. to action

References

• Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.

Amis

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *(i-)kita.

Pronoun

kita

1. we (inclusive of the person spoken to)

See also

Bikol Central

Pronoun

kita

1. we (inclusive of the person spoken to)

   Luwas na kita.

Cayubaba

Noun

kita

1. water

   kikita

   the water

Further reading

• Mily Crevels, Hein van der Voort, The Guaporé-Mamoré region as a linguistic area, in Pieter Muysken (editor), From Linguistic Areas to Areal Linguistics (2008), Studies in Language Companion Series, volume 90
• Harold Key, Morphology of Cayuvava (Mouton & Co., 1967), page 64

Cebuano

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)kita, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)kita.

Pronoun

kita

1. we (inclusive of the person spoken to)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kita, from Proto-Austronesian *kita.

Verb

kita

1. to see, behold

Noun

kita

1. money earned; earnings

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:kita.

Anagrams

• atik, kati, kiat

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kita. Cognate with Estonian kida, Karelian kita, Livonian ki’d, Ludian kida, Veps kida and Votic kita. Possible cognates in Ugric languages include Khanty ???????? (kot?mn??) and Mansi ??????? (hol??ka).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kit?/, [?kit??]
• Rhymes: -it?
• Syllabification: ki?ta

Noun

kita

1. mouth, especially a large, wide open mouth.
2. throat, pharynx
3. maw, the upper digestive tract (where food enters the body), especially the mouth and jaws of a fearsome and ravenous creature.
4. the empty gap between the jaws of a wrench, vise, etc.

Declension

Derived terms

• kidus
• kituset

Compounds

Anagrams

• Kati, akti, kait

Hiligaynon

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)kita, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)kita.

Pronoun

kitá

1. we (inclusive)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kita, from Proto-Austronesian *kita.

Verb

kítà

1. to see, behold

Ilocano

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kita, from Proto-Austronesian *kita.

Noun

kíta (plural kitkita)

1. kind; class; species
2. look; shape; appearance

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

kíta (plural kitkita)

1. salary; wages

   Synonym: sueldo

Derived terms

Conjugation

Indonesian

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *kita(?), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)kita, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)kita. Compare Tagalog kita.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kita/

Pronoun

kita

1. we (inclusive)

2. our / ours (inclusive)

Related terms

• kami (exclusive)

Anagrams

ikat, tika

Inonhan

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)kita, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)kita.

Pronoun

kita

1. we; us (inclusive of the person spoken to)

Japanese

Romanization

kita

1. R?maji transcription of ??
2. R?maji transcription of ??

Javanese

Etymology 1

Pronoun

kita

1. we

Etymology 2

Noun

kita

1. Nonstandard spelling of kitha.

Lindu

Pronoun

kita

1. we (inclusive)

Lingala

Verb

-kita (infinitive kokita)

1. to descend, go down

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *kita(?), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)kita, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)kita.

Pronunciation

• (Johor-Riau) IPA^(key): [kit?]
• Rhymes: -it?, -t?, -?

Pronoun

kita (Jawi spelling ????)

1. we, us, our (inclusive of the person spoken to)
2. I, me, my

Derived terms

• kekitaan

Related terms

• kami (“exclusive of the person spoken to”)

Descendants

• Indonesian: kita

Anagrams

ikat, tika

See also

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Spanish quitar

Verb

kita

1. to remove, to take away
2. to subtract

Polish

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kyta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?i.ta/

Noun

kita f (diminutive kitka)

1. (fluffy) tail
2. crest, brush, tuft

Declension

Further reading

• kita in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• kita in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Ratagnon

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)kita, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)kita.

Pronoun

kitá

1. we (inclusive)

Sakizaya

Pronoun

kita

1. we (inclusive)

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kyta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kîta/
• Hyphenation: ki?ta

Noun

k?ta f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. bunch, bouquet
2. (slang) penis
3. (archaic) pretty girl
4. (Kajkavian) branch (of a tree)

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *kyta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kì?ta/

Noun

kíta f

1. plait, braid
2. tendon

Inflection

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

kita (ki-vi class, plural vita)

1. a war, a battle

Verb

-kita (infinitive kukita)

1. to stand one's ground

Conjugation

Tagalog

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /ki?ta/, [k??ta]
• Rhymes: -a

Etymology 1

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)kita, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)kita.

Pronoun

kitá

1. Replaces ko ka or ko ikaw (I or my and you). Used when speaking directly to the receiver of a verb.

2. we; the two of us; you and I

   Synonym: kata

See also

Pronunciation 2

• IPA^(key): /?kita/, [?kit?]
• Rhymes: -ita

Etymology 2

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kita, from Proto-Austronesian *kita.

Noun

kita

1. state or quality of being seen; visibility
2. observation

   Synonym: pagkakita

Adjective

kita

1. seen; visible

   Synonyms: nakikita, litaw, nakalitaw, hayag, nakahayag, tanaw, natatanaw

2. obvious; easily seen or understood

Derived terms

Etymology 3

Noun

kita

1. earnings; income; salary

   Synonyms: sahod, suweldo

2. gain; profit; revenue

   Synonym: tubo

Adjective

kita

1. earned or received as salary or income
2. gained or benefited from business or interest (money)

Derived terms

Tokelauan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ki.ta/
• Hyphenation: ki?ta

Etymology 1

From Proto-Polynesian *ki-ta. Cognates include Tongan kita and Samoan kita.

Pronoun

kita

1. I, me

Usage notes

• kita is commonly used in place of au to arouse the listener’s sympathy about some predicament that one is in.

See also

Etymology 2

Noun

kita

1. coconut palm with many coconuts

References

• R. Simona, editor (1986) Tokelau Dictionary?^[1], Auckland: Office of Tokelau Affairs, page 162

Zacatepec Chatino

Noun

kita

1. dust
2. herb