act

act: n

1. deed, turn, action; performance, proceeding, execution, consummation; conduct; doing, operation, transaction; undertaking, project, enterprise; work, task, job, commission.

2. exploit, feat, Archaic. gest, achievement, step, stride, advancement, progress; accomplishment, attainment, requirement, success.

3. maneuver, move, stroke, blow, coup, stunt, trick; stroke of genius, tour de force.

4. in the act

in'the process, in the middle, in the course; red-handed, Latin, in flagrante delicto, Sl. with one's pants down, Inf. with one's hand in the cookie jar.

5. formal decision, ruling, judgement, conclusion, determination, resolve, resolution; verdict, finding, arbitration, arbitrament; sentence, Law. award; declaration, pronouncement, decree, edict, proclamation; dictate, dictum, order, command, mandate; rule, regulation, law, Law. statute, ordinance; bill, enactment, measure, proposal, motion.

6. short performance, show, Music. gig, stand, appearance; routine, bit, skit, short play, Theat. one-acter, curtain raiser.

7. pretense, pretending, feigning, make-believe; sham, fake, counterfeit, dissimulation, dissemblance; affectation, show, insincerity, false appearance.

v

8. do, go about, perform, execute, Scot, and North Eng. Obs. gar, discharge, carry out; be active, be employed, be busy.

9. decide, determine, resolve, judge, make up one's mind, reach or make a decision.

10. function, perform, operate; work, be effective, be efficacious.

11.(all of oneself) conduct, behave, comport, deport, demean; (all of oneself) manage, bear, carry, acquit.

12. pretend, feign, make believe; sham, fake, counterfeit, make a false show, dissemble, dissimulate; simulate, affect, put on, assume, Inf. do for effect.

13. perform, portray, play; represent, enact, act out, put on, produce, stage, give a show; tread the boards.

14. act for

substitute, pinch-hit, fill in; do, serve, take the place of.

15. act on or upon

a. follow, head, obey, comply with, yield to, conform to, act in accordance with.b. affect, influence; change, alter, transform, modify.

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Synonyms:

Work, move, carry anything into effect, execute a purpose, be in action, be active, be in process, keep going, energize, Do, perform, execute, carry into execution, Deed (viewed as a single exertion of power), performance, proceeding, exploit, feat, achievement, turn, 2 / Behave, conduct one's self, demean one's self, acquit one's self, deport one's self, Personate, impersonate, represent, play, simulate, enact, play the part of, take the part of, Statute, enactment, ordinance, edict, decree, law, bill / Operate, have influence, be efficient, be efficacious, work, have effect, be operative, Be, realize, actualize, do the duties of, display the qualities of, have the essential character of, Fact, reality, actuality, real existence / Play a part, play, feign, dissimulate, pretend, make believe, dissemble, Stage in the action (in a drama) / Play parts, represent characters, make impersonations

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