Word Finder - acts

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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.

Now let's acts like a couple of adults.

A man takes ownership of his deeds and acts responsibly.

That's obvious by the way he acts about the goats.

All his acts were opposed, legislation was at a standstill and every effort was made to force Dr Saenz Pena to resign.

Your bracelet acts as a sort of master key, so you can go anywhere in the whole house.

This is infallibility put into practice by definite acts.

The birds were regarded as originally human beings, whose acts and characters were supposed to account for certain habits of the birds into which they had been changed.

Any time anyone tries to raise the subject to Donnie, he just turns away and acts as if he didn't hear the question.

Eden used Xander for her own means and yet, the Original Human's final acts of limiting Xander's power had been selfless.

I was keenly surprised and disappointed years later to learn of their acts of persecution that make us tingle with shame, even while we glory in the courage and energy that gave us our "Country Beautiful."

The constitution provides that the legislature, on the request of any county, may establish a special form of county government, and several of the larger and more populous counties have special acts.

At the head of each department is a prefect, a political official nominated by the minister of the interior and appointed by the president, who acts as general agent of the government and renresentative of the central authority.

He also acts as registrar of births, deaths and marriages, and officiates at civil marriages.

The same term is applied to the acts passed by the state legislatures for correcting and redistributing the representation of the counties.

The highest office in connexion with the Cinque Ports is that of the lord warden, who also acts as governor of Dover Castle, and has a maritime jurisdiction (vide infra) as admiral of the ports.

The Babylonian calendars contain explicit directions for the observance of abstention from certain secular acts on certain days which forms a close parallel to the Jewish Sabbatical rules.

But the piratical acts of these traders, in which the knights themselves sometimes joined, and the strategic position of the island between Constantinople and the Levant, necessitated its reduction by the Ottoman sultans.

During the year 1896 Enabling Acts were passed by New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia and Western Australia, and delegates were elected by popular vote in all the colonies named except Western Australia, where the delegates were chosen by parliament.

This report led to the passing of a number of acts which, proving ineffectual, were followed by the Factories and Shops Act of 1896, passed by the ministry of Mr (afterwards Sir Alexander) Peacock.

The general administration of the Factories and Shops Acts, to which the special boards owe their being, is vested in a chief inspector of factories, subject to the control of the minister of Labour in matters of policy.

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.

Thus, if x= horned and y = sheep, then the successive acts of election represented by x and y, if performed on unity, give the whole of the class horned sheep. Boole showed that elective symbols of this kind obey the same primary laws of combination as algebraical symbols, whence it followed that they could be added, subtracted, multiplied and even divided, almost exactly in the same manner as numbers.

As a thorough Spaniard who did not even understand the language of his Netherland subjects Philip was from the first distrusted and his acts regarded with suspicion.

Under the command of the lord of Lumbres, the lord of Treslong, and William de la Marck (lord of Lumey) they spread terror and alarm along the coast, seized much plunder, and in revenge for Alva's cruelty committed acts of terrible barbarity upon the priests and monks and catholic officials, as well as upon the crews of the vessels that fell into their hands.

In 1894 a more serious rebellion in the mountainous region of Sassun was ruthlessly stamped out; the Powers insistently demanded reforms, the eventual grant of which in the autumn of 1895 was the signal for a series of massacres, brought on in part by the injudicious and threatening acts of the victims, and extending over many months and throughout Asia Minor, as well as in the capital itself.

The acts imposing fines for recusancy, repealed in 1650, were later executed with great severity.

The writer of Acts ii., anxious to prove that Providence from the first included the Gentiles in the Messianic Kingdom, assumes that the gift of tongues was a miraculous faculty of talking strange languages without having previously learned them.

And he who would understand what he remembers to have been said, whether in a dream or when he was awake, by the prophetic and enthusiastic nature, or what he has seen, must first recover his wits; and then he will be able to explain rationally what all 1 This misunderstanding of Acts ii.

See further Body-Snatching, and Burial And Burial Acts.

The Calvinist ministers were expelled; Protestant books were confiscated and destroyed; the acts of Protestant lawyers and officials were declared invalid.

For example, does the heat generated by friction vary as the friction and the time during which it acts, or is it proportional to the friction and the distance through which the rubbing bodies are displaced - that is, to the work done against friction - or does it involve any other conditions?

In electric cranes a useful method is to arrange the connexions so that the lifting motor acts as a dynamo, and, driven by the energy of the falling load, generates a current which is converted into heat by being passed through resistances.

Finally, it may be noted that many immoral acts, such as the use of false weights, lying, &c., which could not be brought into court, are severely denounced in the Omen Tablets as likely to bring the offender into " the hand of God " as opposed to " the hand of the king."

If we consider the lines of magnetic force in the neighbourhood of the receiving antenna wire we shall see that they move across it, and thus create in it an electromotive force which acts upon the coherer or other sensitive device associated with it.

The acts of communal administration requiring the sanction of the provincial administrative junta are chiefly financial.

Besides possessing competence in regard to local government elections, which previously came within the jurisdiction of the provincial deputations, the provincial administrative juntas discharge magisterial functions in administrative affairs, and deal with appeals presented by private persons against acts of the communal and provincial administrations.

The famous league of Lombard cities, styled Concordia in its acts of settlement, was now established.

Yet neither the acts by which their league was ratified nor the terms negotiated for them by their patron Alexander evince the smallest desire of what we now understand as national independence.

The mendicant monks stirred up the populace to acts of fanatical enmity.

On all sides it was felt that the Italian alliance must be tightened; and one of the last, best acts of Nicholas V.s pontificate was the appeal in 1453 to the five great powers in federation.

The latter immediately proclaimed the constitution, but the new king, Charles Felix, who was at Modena at the time, repudiated the regents acts and exiled him to Tuscany; and, with his consent, an Austrian army invaded Piedmont and crushed the constitutionalists at Novara.

Depretis, for his part, was compelled to declare impracticable the immediate abolition of the grist tax, and to frame a bill for the increase of revenue, acts which caused the secession of some sixty Radicals and Republicans from the ministerial majority, and gave the signal for an agitation against the premier similar to that which he himself had formerly undertaken against the Right.

At Milan it was more serious and lasted longer than elsewhere, as the movement was controlled by the anarchists under Arturo Labriola; the hooligans committed many acts of savage violence, especially against those workmen who refused to strike, and much property was wilfully destroyed.

Further acts of violence were committed by the Germans in 1903, which led to antiAustrian demonstrations in Italy.

The earnest and well-expressed prayer or hymn of praise cannot fail to draw the divine power to the worshipper and make it yield to his supplication; whilst offerings, so far from being mere acts of devotion calculated to give pleasure to the god, constitute the very food and drink which render him vigorous and capable of battling with the enemies of his mortal friend.

He does not find it true to experience that man necessarily acts at the dictation of selfish motives.

Similarly, miracles - absolute new beginnings - are possible on God's side, if they are not mere anomalies but acts promotive of the general meaning or tendency of things, and of the divine plan of the universe.

The religion consists of fear of the spirits of the wood, the sea, disease and ancestors, and of avoidance of acts traditionally displeasing to them.

The acts of councils of this age are full of the trials of bishops not only for heresy but for immorality and common law crimes.

This recourse in England sometimes took the form of the appeal to the king given by the Constitutions of Clarendon, just mentioned, and later by the acts of Henry VIII.; sometimes that of suing for writs of prohibition or mandamus, which were granted by the king's judges, either to restrain excess of jurisdiction, or to compel the spiritual judge to exercise jurisdiction in cases where it seemed to the temporal court that he was failing in his duty.