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English

Pronunciation

  • An audio transcript can be found at en-us-acting.ogg


Adjective

  1. temporarily|Temporarily assume|assuming the duty|duties or authority of another person when they are unable to do their job.
  2. : The Acting Minister must sign Executive Council documents in a Minister's absence.
  3. : Acting President of the United States is a temporary office in the government of the United States.


Translations

  • Japanese:代理の(だいりの, dairino)

Verb

acting


Noun

  1. An intended action or deed.
  2. pretending|Pretending.
  3. The occupation of an actor.
  4. The deeds or actions of parties are called actings to avoid confusion with the legal senses of deeds and actions.


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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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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WordNet acting
adj : serving temporarily especially as a substitute; "the acting
president" [syn: acting(a)]
n : the performance of a part or role in a drama [syn: playing,
playacting, performing]
Moby Dictionary
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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