N. eventuality, event, occurrence, incident,
affair, matter, thing,
episode, happening, proceeding,
contingency,
juncture, experience, fact, matter of fact, naked fact, bare facts, just the facts, phenomenon,
advent, business,
concern,
transaction, dealing, proceeding, circumstance, particular,
casualty, accident,
adventure, passage,
crisis, pass,
emergency,
contingency, consequence, opportunity (occasion) 143, the world, life, things,
doings, affairs in general, things in general, affairs in general, the times, state of affairs, order of the day, course of things, tide of things, stream of things, current of things, run of things, march of things, course of events, ups and downs of life, vicissitudes of life, chapter of accidents, situation
V. happen, occur, take place, take effect, come, become of, come off, comeabout, come round, come into existence, come forth, come to pass, come on, pass, present itself, fall, fall out, turn out, run, be on foot, fall in,
befall,
betide,
bechance, prove,
eventuate, draw on, turn up, crop up, spring up, pop up, arise, show up, show its face, appear, come forth, cast up,
supervene,
survene, issue, arrive,
ensue, arise, start, hold, take its course, pass off, meet with, experience, enjoy,
encounter, undergo, suffer, pass through, go through, be subjected to, be exposed to, fall to the lot of, be one's chance, be one's fortune, be one's lot, find,
endure Adj. happening, going on, doing, current, in the wind, in the air,
afloat, on foot,
afoot, on the tapis, at issue, in question,
incidental, eventful,
stirring,
bustling, full of incident, memorable,
momentous, signal
Adv. eventually, in the event of, in case, just in case, in the course of things, as things, times go, as the world goes, wags, as the tree falls, cat jumps, as it may turn out, happen
Phr. that's the way the ball bounces, that's the way the cookie crumbles, you never know what may turn up, you never know what the future will bring, the plot thickens, "breasts the blows of circumstance", "so runs round of life from hour to hour" "sprinkled along the waste of years", future events
N. action, performance, doing,
&c. v,
perpetration, exercise,
excitation, movement, operation, evolution, work, labor,
praxis, execution, procedure,
handicraft, business, agency, deed, act, overt act,
stitch, touch, gest transaction, job,
doings, dealings, proceeding, measure, step,
maneuver,
bout, passage, move, stroke, blow,
coup, coup de main, coup d'etat, tour de force,
feat,
exploit,
achievement,
handiwork,
workmanship, manufacture, stroke of policy,
actor V. do, perform,
execute,
achieve,
transact,
enact, commit,
perpetrate,
inflict, exercise,
prosecute, carry on, work, practice, play, employ oneself, ply one's task,
officiate, have in hand, labor, be at work, pursue a course, shape one's course, act,
operate, take action, take steps, strike a blow, lift a finger, stretch forth one's hand, take in hand, put oneself in motion, put in practice, carry into execution, act upon, be an actor, take a part in, act a part in, play a part in, perform a part in, participate in, have a hand in, have a finger in the pie, have to do with, be a party to, be a participator in, bear a hand, lend a hand, pull an oar, run in a race, mix oneself up with, be in action, come into operation
Adj. doing, acting, in action, in harness, on duty, in operation
Adv. in the act, in the midst of, in the thick of,
red-handed, in flagrante delicto, while one's hand is in
Phr. "action is eloquence", actions speak louder than words, actum aiunt ne agas, "awake, arise, or be forever fall'n", dii pia facta vident, faire sans dire, fare fac, fronte capillata post est occasio calva, "our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts", "the great end of life is not knowledge but action", "thought is the soul of act", vivre-ce nest pas respirer c'est agir, "we live in deeds not years"
