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See also:ACT,Act,act.,Act.,A.C.T.,andA. C. T.

Translingual

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Symbol

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act

  1. (international standards)ISO 639-3language code forAchterhooks.

English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishacte, fromOld Frenchacte, fromLatinācta(“register of events”), plural ofāctum(“decree, law”), fromagere(“to do, to act”), ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*h₂éǵeti. CompareGermanAkte(“file”). Partially displaceddeed, fromOld Englishdǣd(“act, deed”).

Noun

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act (countable anduncountable,pluralacts)

  1. (countable) Something done, adeed.
    anact of goodwill
    • 1798,William Wordsworth,Lines:
      That best portion of a good man's life, / His little, nameless, unrememberedacts / Of kindness and of love.
  2. (obsolete, uncountable)Actuality.
    • 1594–1597,Richard Hooker, edited byJ[ohn] S[penser],Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Will[iam] Stansby[for Matthew Lownes], published1611,→OCLC,(please specify the page):
      The seeds of plants are not at first inact, but in possibility, what they afterward grow to be.
  3. (theology) Something done once and for all, as distinguished from awork.
  4. (law, countable) A product of alegislative body, astatute.
    • 2012 March, William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter, “The British Longitude Act Reconsidered”, inAmerican Scientist‎[1], volume100, number 2, page87:
      But was it responsible governance to pass the LongitudeAct without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.
  5. (law, countable) (In the United States) A legislative proposal, a bill that has not yet become law.
    • 2021 February 4, Celine McNicholas, Margaret Poydock, Lynn Rhinehart, “How the PRO Act restores workers' rights to unionize”, inEconomic Policy Institute‎[2]:
      Under current law, employers can drag out the union election process... Under the PRO Act, workers and the NLRB set union election procedures. The employer is not involved.
  6. The process of doing something.
    He was caught in theact of stealing.
  7. (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
  9. (countable, drama) A division of atheatricalperformance.
    • 1904–1905, Baroness Orczy [i.e.,Emma Orczy], “The Lisson Grove Mystery”, inThe Case of Miss Elliott, London:T[homas] Fisher Unwin, published1905,→OCLC; republished as popular edition, London: Greening & Co., 1909,OCLC11192831, quoted inThe Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html), Australia:Project Gutenberg of Australia, February 2020:
      “H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and threeacts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what[…] will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday[…] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth.[…]”
    The pivotal moment in the play was in the first scene of the secondact.
  10. (countable) Aperformer or performers in a show.
    Whichact did you prefer? The soloist or the band?
  11. (countable) Any organized activity.
    • 1934, Babette Hughes,One egg: a farce in one act, page46:
      The minute you let it be known you're planning a sales campaign everybody wants to get into theact.
  12. (countable) Adisplay ofbehaviour.
    1. (countable) A display of behaviour meant todeceive.
      to put on anact
  13. Athesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by acandidate for adegree, or to show theproficiency of astudent.
  15. (law)Ellipsis ofact of parliament.
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Translations
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deed
state of existence
statute
process of doing
formal record of something done
drama: division of theatrical performance
display of behaviour
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Verb

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act (third-person singular simple presentacts,present participleacting,simple past and past participleacted)

  1. (intransitive) Todo something.
    If you don’tact soon, you will be in trouble.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
    • 1651,Jer[emy] Taylor, “Signes of Purity of Intention”, inThe Rule and Exercises of Holy Living. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Francis Ashe […],→OCLC,page23:
      that weact our temporal affairs with a deſire no greater than our neceſſity
    • a.1678 (date written),Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number). Of Industry in General”, inThe Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume(please specify |volume=I to VII), London:A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published1830–1831,→OCLC:
      Industry doth beget by producing good habits, and facility ofacting things expedient for us to do.
    • 1782,William Cowper,Expostulation:
      Uplifted hands that at convenient times / Couldact extortion and the worst of crimes.
  3. (intransitive) Toperform a theatrical role.
    I startedacting at the age of eleven in my local theatre.
  4. (intransitive) Of a play: to be acted out (well or badly).
    • 2011, Effiong Johnson,Play Production Processes, page180:
      But whatever types he assumes, the need to have a good play whichacts delightfully well before the audience, and to their delectation, is the dominant thrust. If the playacts well, the director gets the credits.
  5. (intransitive) Tobehave in acertain manner for anindefinite length of time.
    A dog whichacts aggressively is likely to bite.
    I believe that Bill’s stuck-up because of the way that heacts.
    He’sacting strangely—I think there’s something wrong with him.
  6. (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
    Heacted unconcerned so the others wouldn’t worry.
  7. (intransitive) To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
    act on behalf of John
  8. (intransitive, construed withon orupon) To have aneffect (on).
    High-pressure oxygenacts on the central nervous system and may cause convulsions or death.
    Gravitational forceacts on heavy bodies.
  9. (transitive) To play (arole).
    He’s beenacting Shakespearean leads since he was twelve.
  10. (transitive) Tofeign.
    Heacted the angry parent, but was secretly amused.
    • 1697,Virgil, “The Second Book of theÆneis”, inJohn Dryden, transl.,The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […],→OCLC:
      Withacted fear the villain thus pursued.
  11. (intransitive, law) To carry outwork as alegalrepresentative in relation to a particular legalmatter.
    A lawyer cannotact until they have been formally instructed by their client.
  12. (intransitive, mathematics, construed withon orupon, of analgebraic structure) To possess anaction onto (some other structure). Examples include thegroup action of agroup on aset, the action of aring on amodule byscalar multiplication, and the action of agroup oralgebra on avector space via arepresentation.
    This groupacts on the circle, so it can't be left-orderable!
  13. (obsolete, transitive) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.
  14. (obsolete, Scotland, transitive) Toenact; todecree.[1]
Conjugation
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Conjugation ofact
infinitive(to)act
present tensepast tense
1st-personsingularactacted
2nd-personsingularact,actest†acted,actedst†
3rd-personsingularacts,acteth†acted
pluralact
subjunctiveactacted
imperativeact—
participlesactingacted
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Translations
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to do something
to perform a theatrical role
to behave in a certain way
to convey an appearance of being
to respond to information
to feign—seefeign
to have an effect on
to map to a group of automorphisms
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Etymology 2

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Clipping ofactually.

Adverb

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act (comparativemoreact,superlativemostact)

  1. (text messaging)Clipping ofactually.
    james did uact enjoy that juice? looked like u were gagging icl

References

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  • “act”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.
  1. ^“act,v.”, inThe Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh:Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present,→OCLC.

Anagrams

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Middle English

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Noun

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act

  1. Alternative form ofacte

Old Irish

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Conjunction

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act

  1. Alternative spelling ofacht(“but”)

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromFrenchacte, fromLatinactus.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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act n (pluralacte)

  1. act,deed,action

Declension

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Declension ofact
singularplural
indefinitedefiniteindefinitedefinite
nominative-accusativeactactulacteactele
genitive-dativeactactuluiacteactelor
vocativeactuleactelor

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Scots

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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act (pluralacts)

  1. anact

Verb

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act (third-person singular simple presentacts,present participleactin,simple pastactit,past participleactit)

  1. act
  2. enact
  3. decree

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Welsh

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Etymology

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FromEnglishact.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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act f (pluralactau)

  1. act

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Mutation

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Mutated forms ofact
radicalsoftnasalh-prothesis
actunchangedunchangedhact

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “act”, inGeiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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