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act

The English word “act” has 27 meanings listed here.

  1. Something done, a deed.
  2. Actuality.
  3. Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work.
  4. A product of a legislative body, a statute.
  5. (In the United States) A legislative proposal, a bill that has not yet become law.
  6. The process of doing something.
  7. A formal or official record of something done.
  8. A division of a theatrical performance.
  9. A performer or performers in a show.
  10. Any organized activity.
  11. A display of behaviour.
  12. A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
  13. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
  14. Ellipsis of act of parliament.
  15. To do something.
  16. To do (something); to perform.
  17. To perform a theatrical role.
  18. Of a play: to be acted out (well or badly).
  19. To convey an appearance of being.
  20. To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
  21. To have an effect (on).
  22. To play (a role).
  23. To feign.
  24. To carry out work as a legal representative in relation to a particular legal matter.
  25. To possess an action onto (some other structure). Examples include the group action of a group on a set, the action of a ring on a module by scalar multiplication, and the action of a group or algebra on a vector space via a representation.
  26. To move to action; to actuate; to animate.
  27. To enact; to decree.
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