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CARRYING INTO ACTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it
Example:
experience generally improves performance
Synonyms:
carrying into action; carrying out; execution; performance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("carrying into action" is a kind of...):
action (something done (usually as opposed to something said))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "carrying into action"):
specific performance (the performance of a legal contract as specified by its terms)
linguistic performance ((linguistics) a speaker's actual use of language in real situations; what the speaker actually says, including grammatical errors and other non-linguistic features such as hesitations and other disfluencies (contrasted with linguistic competence))
mechanics; mechanism (the technical aspects of doing something)
officiation (the performance of a religious or ceremonial or public duty)
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