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Meaning of कार्य in English

  • That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.
  • The result of public deliberation; the decision or determination of a legislative body, council, court of justice, etc.; a decree, edit, law, judgment, resolve, award; as, an act of Parliament, or of Congress.
  • A formal solemn writing, expressing that something has been done.
  • A performance of part of a play; one of the principal divisions of a play or dramatic work in which a certain definite part of the action is completed.
  • A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
  • A state of reality or real existence as opposed to a possibility or possible existence.
  • Process of doing; action. In act, in the very doing; on the point of (doing).
  • To move to action; to actuate; to animate.
  • To perform; to execute; to do.
  • To perform, as an actor; to represent dramatically on the stage.
  • To assume the office or character of; to play; to personate; as, to act the hero.
  • To feign or counterfeit; to simulate.
  • To exert power; to produce an effect; as, the stomach acts upon food.
  • To perform actions; to fulfill functions; to put forth energy; to move, as opposed to remaining at rest; to carry into effect a determination of the will.
  • To behave or conduct, as in morals, private duties, or public offices; to bear or deport one's self; as, we know not why he has acted so.
  • To perform on the stage; to represent a character.
  • A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of power exerted on one body by another; agency; activity; operation; as, the action of heat; a man of action.
  • An act; a thing done; a deed; an enterprise. (pl.): Habitual deeds; hence, conduct; behavior; demeanor.
  • The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.
  • Movement; as, the horse has a spirited action.
  • Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun.
  • Any one of the active processes going on in an organism; the performance of a function; as, the action of the heart, the muscles, or the gastric juice.
  • Gesticulation; the external deportment of the speaker, or the suiting of his attitude, voice, gestures, and countenance, to the subject, or to the feelings.
  • The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.
  • A suit or process, by which a demand is made of a right in a court of justice; in a broad sense, a judicial proceeding for the enforcement or protection of a right, the redress or prevention of a wrong, or the punishment of a public offense.
  • A right of action; as, the law gives an action for every claim.
  • A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds; hence, in the plural, equivalent to stocks.
  • An engagement between troops in war, whether on land or water; a battle; a fight; as, a general action, a partial action.
  • The mechanical contrivance by means of which the impulse of the player's finger is transmitted to the strings of a pianoforte or to the valve of an organ pipe.
  • A dull, heavy person.
  • Something thick and heavy.
  • To let fall heavily or lazily.
  • See Cob, v. t.
  • The European pollock.
  • Labor or study imposed by another, often in a definite quantity or amount.
  • Business; employment; undertaking; labor.
  • To impose a task upon; to assign a definite amount of business, labor, or duty to.
  • To oppress with severe or excessive burdens; to tax.
  • To charge; to tax; as with a fault.
  • The act of executing or performing any duty, office, or calling; per formance.
  • The appropriate action of any special organ or part of an animal or vegetable organism; as, the function of the heart or the limbs; the function of leaves, sap, roots, etc.; life is the sum of the functions of the various organs and parts of the body.
  • The natural or assigned action of any power or faculty, as of the soul, or of the intellect; the exertion of an energy of some determinate kind.
  • The course of action which peculiarly pertains to any public officer in church or state; the activity appropriate to any business or profession.
  • A quantity so connected with another quantity, that if any alteration be made in the latter there will be a consequent alteration in the former. Each quantity is said to be a function of the other. Thus, the circumference of a circle is a function of the diameter. If x be a symbol to which different numerical values can be assigned, such expressions as x2, 3x, Log. x, and Sin. x, are all functions of x.
  • Alt. of Functionate

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