activity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ækˈtɪv.ɪ.tiː/
ipa: /ækˈtɪv.ɪ.ti/
ipa: [ækˈtɪv.ɪ.ɾi]
ipa: /ækˈtɪv.ə.ti/
ipa: [ækˈtɪv.ə.ɾi]
rhymes: -ɪvɪti
Forms: form: activities
Etymology: From Middle French activité, from Latin activitas. Equivalent to active + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Pit row was abuzz with activity.
glosses: The state or quality of being active; activeness.
examples: text: The activity for the morning was a walk to the store.
synonyms: pursuit
undertaking
glosses: Something done as an action or a movement.
examples: text: An increasing number of sports activities are on offer at the university.
text: Quilting can be an enjoyable activity.
text: Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.
ref: 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
glosses: Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion.
examples: text: […]distinctions among states of affairs are reflected to a striking degree in distinctions among Aktionsart types. That is, situations are expressed by state verbs or predicates, events by achievement verbs or predicates, and actions by activity verbs or predicates.
ref: 1997, Robert van Valin, Randy LaPolla, Syntax, page 92:
topics: grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
sciences
semantics
glosses: The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change over time and have no natural end point.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
glosses: The number of radioactive decays per unit time. Unit for it: becquerel or curie
glosses: The property of substances to react with other substances
Synonyms: word: activity
word: doings
word: endeavor
word: enterprise
word: pursuance
word: pursuit
word: undertaking
word: venture
Hyponyms: word: business
word: communication
word: drinking
word: eating
word: exercise
word: hobby
word: occupation
word: play
word: sexual activity
word: shopping
word: sleeping
word: sport
word: work
word: vocation
word: accounting
word: advertising
word: marketing
word: buying
word: selling
word: hiring
word: firing
word: procurement
word: billing
word: research
word: development
word: organizing
word: reorganizing
word: restructuring
word: setting up
word: merging
word: fishing
word: agriculture
word: manufacturing
word: serving
Derived terms: activities of daily living
activity book
activity group psychotherapy
activity stream
activity theory
activity trap
autoactivity
beehive of activity
bioactivity
catalytic activity
coactivity
counteractivity
crifanac
cyberactivity
cytoactivity
dark-activity
displacement activity
electroactivity
extravehicular activity
fanac
funtivity
hectivity
hive of activity
hyperactivity
hypoactivity
ichnoactivity
immunoactivity
inactivity
interactivity
mechanoactivity
microactivity
minac
multiactivity
myoactivity
neuroactivity
nonactivity
normoactivity
optical activity
overactivity
pharmacoactivity
photoactivity
piezoactivity
preactivity
pulseless electrical activity
radioactivity
Raman optical activity
role activity diagram
self-activity
seroactivity
snacktivity
specific activity
structure-activity relationship
subactivity
superactivity
surrogate activity
thermoactivity
ultrahazardous activity
underactivity
vacuum activity
vasoactivity
zone of polarizing activity
Related terms: word: active
word: doer
word: occurrence