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Revision as of 13:36, 6 September 2023
English
Etymology
From Middle French activité, from Latin activitas. Equivalent to active + -ity.
Pronunciation
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Audio (UK male): (file)
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- Rhymes: -ɪvɪti
Noun
activity (countable and uncountable, plural activities)
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being active; activeness.
- Pit row was abuzz with activity.
- (countable) Something done as an action or a movement.
- The activity for the morning was a walk to the store.
- (countable) Something done for pleasure or entertainment, especially one involving movement or an excursion.
- An increasing number of sports activities are on offer at the university.
- Quilting can be an enjoyable activity.
- 2013 June 7, David Simpson, “Fantasy of navigation”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:
- 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.
- (grammar, semantics) The lexical aspect (aktionsart) of verbs or predicates that change over time and have no natural end point.
- 1997, Robert van Valin, Randy LaPolla, Syntax[1], page 92:
- […] 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.
- (physics) The number of radioactive decays per unit time. Unit for it: becquerel or curie
- The property of substances to react with other substances
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:activity
Antonyms
Derived terms
- activities of daily living
- activity book
- activity stream
- activity theory
- activity trap
- beehive of activity
- catalytic activity
- civic activity
- dark-activity
- displacement activity
- extravehicular activity
- hive of activity
- nonactivity
- optical activity
- overactivity
- photoactivity
- radioactivity
- Raman optical activity
- role activity diagram
- self-activity
- subactivity
- ultrahazardous activity
- underactivity
- zone of polarizing activity
Collocations
Adjectives often used with "activity"
increased, decreased, high, low, volcanic, seismic, eruptive, intellectual, physical, mental, spiritual, muscular, cerebral, favorite, recreational, practical, cultural, artistic, literary, musical, political, diplomatic, military, domestic, voluntary, missionary, chemical, optical, productive, reproductive, industrial, commercial, etc.
Translations
state or quality of being active
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something done as an action or a movement
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something done for pleasure or entertainment
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property of substances to react with other substances
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Further reading
- “activity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “activity”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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- English terms borrowed from Middle French
- English terms derived from Middle French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms suffixed with -ity
- English 4-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/ɪvɪti
- Rhymes:English/ɪvɪti/4 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with usage examples
- English terms with quotations
- en:Grammar
- en:Semantics
- en:Physics
- en:Radioactivity
- English terms with collocations