{
  "id": "doing.activity",
  "term": "doing",
  "sense": "activity",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 5,
  "arena": "doing",
  "domain": "general",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the act of engaging in a deed",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "action.deed",
      "change.process",
      "act.deed"
    ],
    "interaction": "action is change brought about by an agent through an act",
    "novel_properties": [
      "initiated action",
      "agentive change",
      "purposive doing"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Large Hadron Collider circulates proton beams at 99.999999% of light speed for hours, colliding them at designated points.",
      "domain": "physics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Hawaiian lava flows from Kīlauea volcano reshaped 35 square kilometers of coastline between 2018 and 2019.",
      "domain": "geology"
    },
    {
      "text": "Farmers in Punjab, India, plant rice monocultures annually using laser-leveled fields and groundwater pumps.",
      "domain": "agriculture"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "action.deed",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "continue.action",
    "rent.income"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "doing"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "Original definition 'the act of do' was circular and factually invalid. Added missing constitutive concept act.deed to support coherent definition."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-doing.activity"
}