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CARRYING INTO ACTION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does carrying into action mean?
• CARRYING INTO ACTION (noun)
The noun CARRYING INTO ACTION has 1 sense:
1. the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it
Familiarity information: CARRYING INTO ACTION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
carrying into action; carrying out; execution; performance
Context example:
experience generally improves performance
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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