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Activity

noun

(pl. activities)

Any specific behavior.

The state of being active. Synonyms: action, activeness. "He is out of action"

An organic process that takes place in the body. Synonyms: bodily function, bodily process, body process.

(chemistry) the capacity of a substance to take part in a chemical reaction.

A process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings). Synonyms: action, natural action, natural process. "Volcanic activity"

The trait of being active; moving or acting rapidly and energetically. Synonym: activeness.

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"Activity" Quotes from Famous Books

... Louis XIV. no more than his ministers, the Duke of Savoy no more than the King of Spain; but that remarkable woman had mentally aimed at that as the supreme object and end of her aspirations. For its realisation she combined her measures, therefore, with an activity so ardent, with an accuracy of perception so marvellous through the mesh of intrigues which spread from Versailles to Turin and to Madrid, that she succeeded in getting herself accepted simultaneously by the three courts, through ...

— Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2) • Sutherland Menzies

... Egyptian year. A Brigade of the 53rd Division, consisting of Royal Welsh Fusiliers and Herefords, spent a night at Hill 70 on their way to occupy a defensive line between Romani and Mahamadiyeh on the coast. There was an obvious increase in aerial activity on both sides, and camel and other traffic on the ...

— The Seventh Manchesters - July 1916 to March 1919 • S. J. Wilson

... early Gothic sculptors, on the other hand, fail in all points of refinement, but hardly ever in expression of action. This distinction is of course one of the necessary consequences of the difference in all respects between the repose of the Eastern, and activity of the Western mind, which we shall have to trace out completely in the inquiry into the nature of Gothic.] while the bright coloring and disregard of chiaroscuro cannot be regarded as imperfections, since they are the only means by which the figures could be rendered clearly intelligible ...

— Stones of Venice [introductions] • John Ruskin

... that matters," said a laughing voice above him, and suddenly a man in a white yachting-suit, slim, dark, with a monkey-like activity of movement, stepped out from the spreading ...

— The Obstacle Race • Ethel M. Dell

... have been pronouncedly musical. His father was a physician, but his mother was a musician. His early musical training was given to him exclusively by his mother. The following was prepared when he was twelve years old and at that time he was apparently a perfectly healthy child, with the normal activity of a boy of his age and with a little more general education in addition to his music than the average child at fifteen or sixteen possesses. He spoke French, German (fluently) and Spanish, but little English. Despite the fact that he had received numerous honors from European monarchs and ...

— Great Pianists on Piano Playing • James Francis Cooke

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