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Meaning:

Interjection:

  • Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually an act or scene of a theatric performance.

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Noun:

  • A fast-paced activity.
  • A mechanism; a moving part or assembly.
  • A way of motion or functioning.
  • legal A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and ''actio'').
  • mathematics A homomorphism from a group to a group of automorphisms.
  • military Combat.
  • music: The set of moving mechanical parts in a keyboard instrument which transfer the motion of the key to the sound-making device.
  • slang sexual intercourse.
  • Something done so as to accomplish a purpose.
  • The distance separating the strings and the fretboard on the guitar.

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Verb:

  • management To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.

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