Act

Etymology
From, from , from , plural of , from. Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  Something done, a deed.
 * 2) * 1798,, Lines
 * That best portion of a good man's life, / His little, nameless, unremembered acts / Of kindness and of love.
 * 1)  Actuality.
 * The seeds of plants are not at first in act, but in possibility, what they afterward grow to be.
 * 1)  Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work.
 * 2)  A product of a legislative body, a statute.
 * 3) The process of doing something.
 * 4)  A formal or official record of something done.
 * 5)  A division of a theatrical performance.
 * 6)  A performer or performers in a show.
 * 7)  Any organized activity.
 * 8)  A display of behaviour.
 * 9) A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
 * 10)  A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
 * to put on an act
 * 1)  A performer or performers in a show.
 * 2)  Any organized activity.
 * 3)  A display of behaviour.
 * 4) A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
 * 5)  A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
 * to put on an act
 * 1)  A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
 * to put on an act

Synonyms

 * ; see also Thesaurus:action

Derived terms

 * /act of God
 * /act of God
 * /act of God
 * /act of God

Translations

 * American Sign Language: C@SideTrunkhigh-PalmDown-C@SideTrunkhigh-PalmDown RoundVertSidetoside-RoundVertSidetoside
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: ,
 * Asturian: actu
 * Bashkir: эш, ғәмәл
 * Belarusian: дзе́янне, учы́нак, акт
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:, dåd
 * Dhivehi:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: ago
 * Estonian: tegu
 * Ewe: dɔwɔwɔ
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Friulian: at
 * Galician: acto
 * German:, ,
 * Gothic: 𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌹
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: πρᾶγμα
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: tindakan, perlakuan, perbuatan
 * Interlingue: acte
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Khmer: ទង្វើ
 * Korean: ,


 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, , ,
 * Kyrgyz:, , ,
 * Latin:
 * Luxembourgish: Handlung, Dot, Akt
 * Macedonian: чин, постапка, дејство
 * Malay: perbuatan, tindakan
 * Mirandese:
 * Occitan:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Sanskrit:
 * Sardinian: attu, atu
 * Scottish Gaelic: gnìomh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: дејство, чи̑н
 * Roman: ,
 * Sicilian:
 * Sinhalese: ක්‍රියාව
 * Slovak: skutok,
 * Slovene:
 * Somali:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Tagalog: batas
 * Tamil:
 * Telugu: ,
 * Tocharian B: yamalläññe
 * Ukrainian:, вчи́нок, ,
 * Venetian: ato
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:


 * Portuguese:
 * Slovak: skutok,
 * Swahili:


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: зако́н
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:


 * Malay:
 * Arabic: اکتا
 * Latin: akta
 * Oriya:
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: achd
 * Sinhalese: පනත
 * Slovak: }
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Tajik:
 * Telugu:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Welsh:


 * American Sign Language: C@SideTrunkhigh-PalmDown-C@SideTrunkhigh-PalmDown RoundVertSidetoside-RoundVertSidetoside
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Ewe: dɔwɔwɔ
 * Finnish:, , ,
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: אקט
 * Italian:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:


 * Luxembourgish: Akt
 * Malay: lakon
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: gnìomh
 * Slovak: skutok,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Telugu: ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Ewe: dɔwɔwɔ
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:


 * Luxembourgish: Dossier
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:


 * Armenian:
 * Asturian: actu
 * Belarusian: акт, дзе́янне
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 幕
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: dějství
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: akto
 * Estonian: vaatus
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: acto
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:


 * Latvian: cēliens
 * Low German:
 * Paderbornisch: Akt
 * Luxembourgish: Akt
 * Malay:
 * Maori: manga
 * Ngazidja Comorian: sehemu
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Occitan:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: earrann
 * Sinhalese: (නාට්‍යයෙහි) අංකය
 * Slovak: dejstvo
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai: องก์
 * Ukrainian: ,
 * Welsh:


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:


 * Luxembourgish: Nummer, Programm
 * Malay: pura
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak:
 * Swahili:


 * Ido:


 * Lithuanian: ,

Verb

 * 1)  To do something.
 * 2)  To do (something); to perform.
 * , Purity of Intention
 * that we act our temporal affairs with a desire no greater than our necessity
 * Industry doth beget by producing good habits, and facility of acting things expedient for us to do.
 * 1) * 1782,, Expostulation
 * Uplifted hands that at convenient times / Could act extortion and the worst of crimes.
 * 1)  To perform a theatrical role.
 * 2)  Of a play: to be acted out (well or badly).
 * 3)  To behave in a certain manner for an indefinite length of time.
 * 4)  To convey an appearance of being.
 * 5)  To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
 * 6)  To have an effect (on).
 * 7)  To play (a role).
 * 8)  To feign.
 * With acted fear the villain thus pursued.
 * 1)  To map via a homomorphism to a group of automorphisms (of).
 * 2)  To move to action; to actuate; to animate.
 * 1)  To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
 * 2)  To have an effect (on).
 * 3)  To play (a role).
 * 4)  To feign.
 * With acted fear the villain thus pursued.
 * 1)  To map via a homomorphism to a group of automorphisms (of).
 * 2)  To move to action; to actuate; to animate.
 * 1)  To feign.
 * With acted fear the villain thus pursued.
 * 1)  To map via a homomorphism to a group of automorphisms (of).
 * 2)  To move to action; to actuate; to animate.
 * With acted fear the villain thus pursued.
 * 1)  To map via a homomorphism to a group of automorphisms (of).
 * 2)  To move to action; to actuate; to animate.
 * 1)  To move to action; to actuate; to animate.

Translations

 * American Sign Language: C@SideTrunkhigh-PalmDown-C@SideTrunkhigh-PalmDown RoundVertSidetoside-RoundVertSidetoside
 * Asturian: actuar
 * Belarusian: дзе́йнічаць, падзе́йнічаць
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 做
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Danish: handle, agere
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto:, aktori
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: ქმედება
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:, ,


 * Hungarian:
 * Interlingue:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latin:, ,
 * Luxembourgish: agéieren, handelen,
 * Malay: tindak
 * Maori: whakahohe
 * Old English: ādrēogan
 * Polish:, zdziałać,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, ,
 * Slovak: ,
 * Slovene: delovati, ravnati
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Ukrainian:, чинити
 * Welsh:


 * American Sign Language: OpenA@ProximInsideSternumhigh-OpenA@ProximInsideTrunkhigh ContactRoundMidline-ContactRoundMidline OpenA@Chest-OpenA@InsideChesthigh
 * Arabic:
 * Asturian: actuar
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Danish: optræde,, opføre
 * Dutch: (on stage),  (general),  (on stage),  (general),  (on stage)
 * Esperanto: aktori
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ὑποκρίνομαι
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latin: ,
 * Latvian: tēlot
 * Luxembourgish: spillen
 * Malay: lakon
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Slovak: hrať
 * Slovene:, nastopati
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Telugu:
 * Ukrainian:
 * Welsh:


 * American Sign Language: C@SideTrunkhigh-PalmDown-C@SideTrunkhigh-PalmDown RoundVertSidetoside-RoundVertSidetoside
 * Asturian: portar, comportar
 * Belarusian: паступа́ць, паступі́ць
 * Bulgarian: държа се,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Danish: agere, opføre
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: portar, comportar
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian: ,


 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Latin:, , , me gero
 * Luxembourgish: behuelen, opféieren
 * Maori: mākahi
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: comportar-se
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: správať
 * Slovene: vesti se,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu: ,
 * Ukrainian: поводитись, вести себе
 * Welsh:


 * Finnish:
 * Slovak: predstierať, hrať


 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:


 * Luxembourgish: agéieren
 * Russian:
 * Slovene: delovati
 * Swahili:


 * Asturian: actuar
 * Bulgarian: въздействам
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: virke
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * Galician:


 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Luxembourgish: wierken, déngen
 * Portuguese: agir (sobre/em)
 * Russian: ,
 * Slovak: pôsobiť, vplývať


 * : (1),  (2),  (3),  (4),  (1, 5)
 * Ido:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Italian:


 * : (3); 実行する (1,4); 出演する (2)
 * Lithuanian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Ute:

Etymology
Borrowed from, from.

Noun

 * , deed, action

Noun

 * 1) an

Verb

 * 1) enact
 * 2) decree
 * 1) decree

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) act