Word Finder - act

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Something done, a deed.

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an act of goodwill

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Actuality.

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Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work.

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A product of a legislative body, a statute.

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The process of doing something.

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He was caught in the act of stealing.

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A formal or official record of something done.

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A division of a theatrical performance.

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The pivotal moment in the play was in the first scene of the second act.

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A performer or performers in a show.

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Which act did you prefer? The soloist or the band?

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Any organized activity.

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A display of behaviour.

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A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.

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A display of behaviour meant to deceive.

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to put on an act

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To do something.

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If you don't act soon, you will be in trouble.

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To do (something); to perform.

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To perform a theatrical role.

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I started acting at the age of eleven in my local theatre.

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Of a play: to be acted out (well or badly).

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To behave in a certain manner for an indefinite length of time.

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A dog which acts aggressively is likely to bite.

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To convey an appearance of being.

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He acted unconcerned so the others wouldn't worry.

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To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.

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act on behalf of John

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(construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).

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Gravitational force acts on heavy bodies.

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To play (a role).

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He's been acting Shakespearean leads since he was twelve.

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To feign.

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He acted the angry parent, but was secretly amused.

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(construed with on or upon, of a group) To map via a homomorphism to a group of automorphisms (of).

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This group acts on the circle, so it can't be left-orderable!

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To move to action; to actuate; to animate.

He did not act as if it was bothering him.

Act like nothing is wrong.

One does not dress or act like a lady.

Apparently the horse knew the rider meant business, because it didn't act up again.

How did he act strangely?

I know you're hurt but act rationally.

She had to act now.

You just have to act like you already know it.

He seemed sincere, but it could have been an act.

We act on it.

Anyway, why do men have to act on every idea that crosses their mind?

I'll leave the coffee for you and check in later to make sure you haven't decided to act prematurely.

I am afraid to drink anything that makes men act in that way.

His kiss had been an act of aggression, not passion.

If he tried to follow a moving automobile, he could sometimes attach himself, if the vehicle was slow or stopped, but the act was tenuous at best.

From the regimental commander's, Denisov rode straight to the staff with a sincere desire to act on this advice.

The first act was over.

Adrienne shucked her coat and tried to act nonchalant in spite of the warmth in her cheeks.

Baffled. He really hardly knew her but thinks he's supposed act like he's grieving.

It was meant to be the final act of their friendship.

He kept telling himself that he would consider the whole matter and decide what was right and how he should act, but instead of that he only excited himself more and more.

I'm here in one piece, sort of, and you've given me a clean slate to begin act two of my life.

But if he didn't act, no one walked away from here alive, even her.

Dean tried to remember all the methods he'd been taught to stem panic and act rationally.

It's time for you to act.

In the fourth act there was some sort of devil who sang waving his arm about, till the boards were withdrawn from under him and he disappeared down below.

I'm sorry to have missed act one, but I promise a short intermission before I give act two a try.

This act he repeated until all of the nine tiny piglets were visible, and they were so glad to get out of his pocket that they ran around in a very lively manner.

In the diary that she kept at the Wright-Humason School in New York she wrote on October 18, 1894, "I find that I have four things to learn in my school life here, and indeed, in life--to think clearly without hurry or confusion, to love everybody sincerely, to act in everything with the highest motives, and to trust in dear God unhesitatingly."

She would turn her head, smile, and act as though she had heard what was said.

She was familiar with the words of the last sentence, and was delighted when allowed to act them out.

What a sorrowful act must that be--the covering up of wells! coincident with the opening of wells of tears.

The scene of the third act represented a palace in which many candles were burning and pictures of knights with short beards hung on the walls.

Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity.

He didn't act concerned when she told him she had looked at them - not until she questioned the source.

I killed my cousin when he tried to act against my daughter so long ago and replaced him with a man I trust with all I have.

Don't act like I'm some kind of control freak.

I know I'm lucky to have someone so concerned about me, but I guess I don't act very grateful sometimes.

Eventually the difficulty was overcome by the device of an educational test based on the provisions of an act in operation in Natal.

In the years 1900 and 1902 acts were passed in Western Australia still more closely modelled on the New Zealand act than was the above-mentioned statute in New South Wales.

The act was strongly opposed by the government of Queensland, and the question was raised as to whether it was based on a true interpretation of the constitution.

Extension and thought, the essences of corporeal and spiritual natures, are absolutely distinct, and cannot act upon one another.

It was clear that so long as Austria, bribed by Germany, could act in a way so opposed to Italian interests in the Balkans, the Triple Alliance was a mockery, and Italy could only meet the situation by being prepared for all contingencies.

Renard thought he would be executed, but so true a Romanist as Mary could scarcely have an ecclesiastic put to death in consequence of a sentence by a secular court, and Cranmer was reserved for treatment as a heretic by the highest of clerical tribunals, which could not act until parliament had restored the papal jurisdiction.

Only the females suck blood; the act is believed to be necessary for fertilization and reproduction.

I do not know why it is, but stories in which animals are made to talk and act like human beings have never appealed to me very strongly.

The lady who was thought to be most pleasing to the Emperor was invited to act as hostess.

And he knew that he would never act basely.

And I'm ashamed I did not act before now, when it may be too late to counter Sirian.

She was as weak as he thought her, but she couldn't rest, not when she needed to act.