Definitions for ACT

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ACT act

Spelling: [akt]

IPA: /ækt/

Act is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 16 anagrams from letters in ACT (act).

Definitions for ACT

noun

1. anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance:
2. the process of doing:
3. a formal decision, law, or the like, by a legislature, ruler, court, or other authority; decree or edict; statute; judgment, resolve, or award:
4. an instrument or document stating something done or transacted.
5. one of the main divisions of a play or opera: Hamlet.
6. a short performance by one or more entertainers, usually part of a variety show or radio or television program.
7. the personnel of such a group:
8. false show; pretense; feint:
9. Philosophy. activity in process; operation. the principle or power of operation. form as determining essence. a state of realization, as opposed to potentiality.

Idioms

1. act funny, to display eccentric or suspicious behavior.
2. act one's age, to behave in a manner appropriate to one's maturity:
3. clean up one's act, Informal. to begin adhering to more acceptable practices, rules of behavior, etc.:

Verb phrases

1. act on/upon, to act in accordance with; follow: to have an effect on; affect:
2. act out, to demonstrate or illustrate by pantomime or by words and gestures: Psychology. to give overt expression to (repressed emotions or impulses) without insightful understanding:
3. act up, to fail to function properly; malfunction: to behave willfully: to become painful or troublesome, especially after a period of improvement or remission:
4. get/have one's act together, Informal. to organize one's time, job, resources, etc., so as to function efficiently:

verb (used with object)

1. to represent (a fictitious or historical character) with one's person:
2. to feign; counterfeit:
3. to behave as:
4. Obsolete. to actuate.

verb (used without object)

1. to do something; exert energy or force; be employed or operative:
2. to reach, make, or issue a decision on some matter:
3. to operate or function in a particular way; perform specific duties or functions:
4. to produce an effect; perform a function:
5. to behave or conduct oneself in a particular fashion:
6. to pretend; feign:
7. to perform as an actor:
8. to be capable of being performed:
9. to serve or substitute (usually followed by for):

Origin of ACT

1350-1400; Middle English act(e) (Middle French) Latin ācta, plural of āctum something done, noun use of past participle of agere to do (āg- past participle stem + -tum neuter past participle

Examples for ACT

But the act of killing herself done, the message was sent, and heard, and things started changing.

Within their own territory each one could act independently.

Every once in a while, they act swiftly and acknowledge the problem.

On that which he fully believed, he must act, and what did he fully believe?

That act forever sealed his feeling for the Chief, bound it up with the war, with violence, with the gun.

There are not many boys, or men, I think, that would have had the courage to act as you did.

Their first act is to lower the duties on the importation of foreign cattle!

The Samaritan guidelines are written around the assumption that suicide is a purely irrational act, an act spurred by illness.

He was bold enough to brave the consequences of this act, which he foresaw clearly.

A spokesman for Lewisham council said last year that it would be forced to act if the family returned to Britain.