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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 itplay

  Familiarity information: CARRYING INTO ACTION used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CARRYING INTO ACTION (noun)


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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