Word Finder - acted

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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.

She acted like she was trying to protect him.

He said she had acted irresponsibly.

Having finished speaking to her, the Emperor looked inquiringly at Balashev and, evidently understanding that he only acted thus because there were important reasons for so doing, nodded slightly to the lady and turned to him.

I guess because the way she acted while we were there.

Friends and strangers alike acted out their stilted scenes before dropping onto the page as words again.

I did not then know why Belle acted in this way; but I knew she was not doing as I wished.

Aside from his solemn expression, there was nothing in the way he acted with the children that might indicate anything was wrong between them.

You never acted this way then.

Yet the next morning he acted normal - even cheerful.

Instead, you acted like you wanted to forget the whole thing.

We need a tip line that will guarantee what we say is taken seriously and acted upon with haste.

Whatever legal action the Dawkins are involved in would certainly be tainted if Fred knew how Joseph acted up there.

And when he came to the nut trees, and saw the shells left by the idle fairies and all the traces of their frolic, he knew exactly how they had acted, and that they had disobeyed him by playing and loitering on their way through the woods.

And he acted accordingly.

So that's why you acted so cool for a while.

Howie says the guy was tall and skinny and acted strangely.

He used to frown at her when she acted outside the Immortal Laws, unable to appreciate that a deity charged with managing a domain often had to take steps outside the rules to protect one's underworld.

She volunteered very little and acted uneasy when asked, so they simply let it drop.

Neither of them acted like they noticed Destiny was there, and she only watched them, apparently unconcerned.

It was hard to believe he didn't understand the source of her distress, and yet he acted as though he was baffled.

So that was why he acted that way.

I remembered how you acted when you saw me in the black underwear.

The palace acted as a barracks for his assassins, who were trudging in after he ordered their contracts all cancelled.

I intended to have him killed, before his mother acted against me.

The assassin he'd killed earlier had a handler, one that acted as a messenger between him and Darkyn.

But remember, he never acted very love-sick, did he?

You could say they were used for leverage if the country trounced too far on our generosity or refused to take into account our national interest when they acted up.

In fact, she'd made sure he was out of the way when she acted against Sirian.

The way he dressed and acted indicated he was used to feminine attention.

I thought you acted a little strange, but …" "It's alright," Carmen said.

Substitution takes place usually in the nucleus and only rarely in the side chain, and according to the conditions of the experiment and the nature of the compound acted upon, one or more nitro groups enter the molecule.

Families who owned great houses were able to keep them if they opened them to the public, acted as guides, and only lived in a small part of them.

I shall never forget the ripple of alternating joy and woe that ran through that beautiful little play, or the wonderful child who acted it.

The play seemed so real, we almost forgot where we were, and believed we were watching the genuine scenes as they were acted so long ago.

I heartily accept the motto,--"That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.

I have not seen him since we acted together at the Rumyantsovs' theatricals.

Arakcheev was a faithful custodian to enforce order and acted as the sovereign's bodyguard.

He acted as he did when hunting, without reflecting or considering.

He ought to have acted in this way and in that way.

In 1783, although he declined to re-enter the cabinet, he acted as Speaker of the House of Lords.

He was again sent to Berlin in 1871, acted as second plenipotentiary at the Berlin congress of 1878, and was sent in the same year to London, where he represented Austria for ten years.

From 1825 to 1827 he acted as assistant viceconsul at Lisbon, where his uncle, Barthelemy de Lesseps, was the French charge d'affaires.

While in the interests of his canal Lesseps had resisted the opposition of British diplomacy to an enterprise which threatened to give to France control of the shortest route to India, he acted loyally towards Great Britain after Lord Beaconsfield had acquired the Suez shares belonging to the Khedive, by frankly admitting to the board of directors of the company three representatives of the British government.

The two souls acted in accord, the soul of the animal becoming a reflection, as it were, of the soul of the god.

There was no birthright attaching to the position of eldest son, but he usually acted as executor and after considering what each had already received equalized the shares.

Two needles (for some letters, one only) were acted upon at the same time, and the letter at the point of intersection of the direction of the indexes was read.

In order that the line between two stations may be worked on the duplex system it is essential that the receiving instrument shall not be acted on by the outgoing currents, but shall respond to incoming currents.

The siphon is supported on a vertical axle carrying two armatures which are acted upon by two electromagnets.

Over the surface of the plate and between it and the indicator there was passed, at a regularly uniform speed, in a direction perpendicular to the line of motion of the indicator, a material capable of being acted on physically by the sparks, through either their chemical action, their heat, or their perforating force.

The oscillations set up in the vertical antenna excited sympathetic ones in the lateral circuit provided this was of the proper length; and the coherer was acted upon by the maximum potential variations possible.