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French
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acte
, contrat
, loi
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jeu
, interprétation
, performance
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Definition & Synonyms
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• Acting
- (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Act
- (a.) Operating in any way.
- (a.) Doing duty for another; officiating; as, an acting superintendent.
Synonyms:
Performing, Playing,
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• Act
- (n.) That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) A formal solemn writing, expressing that something has been done.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
- (n.) A state of reality or real existence as opposed to a possibility or possible existence.
- (n.) Process of doing; action. In act, in the very doing; on the point of (doing).
- (v. t.) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.
- (v. t.) To perform; to execute; to do.
- (v. t.) To perform, as an actor; to represent dramatically on the stage.
- (v. t.) To assume the office or character of; to play; to personate; as, to act the hero.
- (v. t.) To feign or counterfeit; to simulate.
- (v. i.) To exert power; to produce an effect; as, the stomach acts upon food.
- (v. i.) 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.
- (v. i.) To behave or conduct, as in morals, private duties, or public offices; to bear or deport ones self; as, we know not why he has acted so.
- (v. i.) To perform on the stage; to represent a character.
Synonyms:
Behave, Bit, Dissemble, Do, Enactment, Move, Number, Play, Pretend, Represent, Routine, Turn, Work,
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scarf, easterly, carbuncled, interchange, lumberjack, devotion, elbow grease, tweed, lighted, apologize, ravish, mutual, evanescence, magpie, nick, ostensible, brooding, malinger, cowling, anal, polymorphism, pregnancy, bother, bullish, empiricism, attachment, sweetheart, ampere, carpeting, decimeter, badminton, scheming, |
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