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Act \Act\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Acted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Acting.] [L. actus, p. p. of agere to drive, lead, do; but
influenced by E. act, n.]

1. To move to action; to actuate; to animate. [Obs.]
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul.
--Pope.
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2. To perform; to execute; to do. [Archaic]
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That we act our temporal affairs with a desire no
greater than our necessity. --Jer. Taylor.
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Industry doth beget by producing good habits, and
facility of acting things expedient for us to do.
--Barrow.
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Uplifted hands that at convenient times
Could act extortion and the worst of crimes.
--Cowper.
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3. To perform, as an actor; to represent dramatically on the
stage.
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4. To assume the office or character of; to play; to
personate; as, to act the hero.
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5. To feign or counterfeit; to simulate.
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With acted fear the villain thus pursued. --Dryden.
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To act a part, to sustain the part of one of the characters
in a play; hence, to simulate; to dissemble.

To act the part of, to take the character of; to fulfill
the duties of.
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Acting \Act"ing\, a.

1. Operating in any way.
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2. Doing duty for another; officiating; as, an acting
superintendent.
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acting
adj 1: serving temporarily especially as a substitute; "the
acting president"
n 1: the performance of a part or role in a drama [syn:
acting, playing, playacting, performing]
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acting [æktiŋ]
agierend; amtierend; geschäftsführend; handelnd; stellvertretend; tätig

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acting

aktív
alakítás
eljárás
eljátszás
ható
helyettes
játék
mûködô
színjátszás
színészet
ügyvezetô


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acting [æktiŋ]
representação

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acting

Schauspielerei f
acting

agierend; tätig; amtierend; geschäftsführend adj
acting

handelnd; wirkend; agierend; funktionierend; aufführend
acting

handelnd
acting

Theater spielend
acting

schauspielerisch adj
acting

stellvertretend
acting

wirkend; arbeitend
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143 Moby Thesaurus words for "acting":
act, action, active, activism, activity, ad interim, affectation,
aping, appearance, at work, attitudinizing, behavior, behavioral,
bluff, bluffing, buffoonery, business, characterization, cheating,
color, coloring, deception, delusion, deputative, deputy, disguise,
dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, doing, dumb show,
embodiment, employment, enacting, enactment, exercise, facade,
face, fakery, faking, false air, false front, false show, falsity,
feigning, feint, four-flushing, fraud, front, function, functional,
functioning, gag, gilt, gloss, going, going on, ham, hammy acting,
hoke, hokum, humbug, humbuggery, imitation, impersonation,
imposture, in exercise, in force, in hand, in operation, in play,
in practice, in process, in the works, inaction, incarnation,
interim, masquerade, meretriciousness, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry,
miming, movements, mummery, occupation, on foot, on the fire,
ongoing, operating, operation, operational, operations,
ostentation, outward show, overacting, pantomime, pantomiming,
patter, performance, performing, personation, personification,
play, playacting, playing, portrayal, pose, posing, posture,
practice, practicing, praxis, pretense, pretension, pretext,
pro tem, pro tempore, projection, representation, representative,
running, seeming, semblance, serving, sham, show, simulacrum,
simulation, slapstick, speciousness, stage business,
stage directions, stage presence, stunt, supply, swing,
taking a role, varnish, window dressing, work, working, workings



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