Word Finder - acting

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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.

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An action or deed.

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Something done by a party — so called to avoid confusion with the legal senses of deed and action.

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Pretending.

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The occupation of an actor.

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Temporarily assuming the duties or authority of another person when they are unable to do their job.

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Acting President of the United States is a temporary office in the government of the United States.

She is acting responsibly in his behalf.

You're acting like a kid.

If he was angry, he certainly wasn't acting like he usually did.

Then try and get an acting job.

She.d been acting squirrelly the past two days.

Thinking about it and acting on it were two different things... weren't they?

Hardly.  She's not capable of acting anyone's interest but her own.  And, if I don't try to get you out of here, she'll still take you and your baby's souls.

But I don't know anything about dressing or acting like a lady.

It's about time you stopped acting like a child and...

Jackson knew he had to give her something or she would burst, and, truth be told, he was proud of her for acting so casually when he knew every fiber of her being wanted to jump up and down screeching, 'Tell me, tell me!'.

They're acting out some bizarre kid's story for the cancer kids, Han said, ducking his head into the office.

He said the whole song and dance about his wife acting like that other woman gave him the willies.

Yes, it is a tomb in which hope, joy and the power of acting nobly lie buried.

In fact, he was the one who was acting selfish!

Soc. for 1878, points out that this act meant something to the mob who followed the rebel chief, and was not a piece of foolish acting.

Don't start acting like it was all my idea.

Why couldn't he have confronted Claudette, instead of acting like a beast?

I always thought they had a pretty solid marriage, especially with Claire, but she's acting as crazy as a teenager and just watching her marriage crumble.

I know; I'm acting like a fool but it's been a bad day... week... month.

She couldn't get over seeing a grown man acting like a teenager.

Nor, for that matter, would have anyone else Dean could think of, Acting Sheriff Fitzgerald included.

Here was this old geezer acting like I was a human being.

Acting Sheriff Fitzgerald was slipping two one-pint bottles of vodka into a paper bag as Dean was about to open the door.

Acting Sheriff Fitzgerald moved out from behind the lights and strutted over to her.

Smiling Acting Sheriff Fitzgerald, dressed in his uniform, greeted Dean graciously as he poured charm on the ladies.

But neither seriously considered contacting the law, especially because the law was Acting Sheriff Fitzgerald.

Fat man in black stifled a laugh while the acting sheriff glowered.

Suppose it was Brandon, acting alone, who killed the Blackie Rowland?

Had he been the reason Alex had been acting strange?

Basically these antigens are acting as a screening agent.

The assassin had been acting strange for quite a while.

She's the one bed-hopping and acting like a looney.

My source with the CBI isn't that privy to what's happening and it's damn tough acting on what I'm not supposed to know.

He had grown accustomed to women acting this way, yet today, in this atmosphere, it made him uncomfortable.

They carried the crate back to the building acting as a nursery.

She focused on the dim light of her microcomputer acting as a page marker in the antique book on her nightstand.

And here we are, acting like two heavies from the Church of Yesterday's Morals giving him a hard time.

Arthur's social friends pawed all over one another on one side of the room, while his lawyer pals held down the other side, acting as if it were a board meeting instead of a wake.

He was talking and acting in an inappropriate manner.

Has Brutus been acting strange lately?

You've been acting strange towards me for days now.

How can you consider yourself acting in the greater good? he snapped, moving to Dusty's body next.

But then, maybe he felt she was acting like a child.

She had been dressing the way Katie told her to – acting the way Katie said she should.

Maybe I deserved a spanking for acting like a child.

Of course he had been acting strange lately.

You were dressing different and acting different – honestly Carmen, I didn't know what to expect next.

His secretary had certainly been acting like she thought so.

You're acting like my seventeen-year-old.

You have problems dating and can't get an acting job?