act

Noun

act (plural acts)

1. something done, a deed
2. a state of existence
3. a product of a legislative body, a statute
4. the process of doing something
5. a record of something done

   The Acts of the Apostles

6. a division of a theatrical performance
7. a display of behavior, a pretense

3 letters in word "act": A C T.

Anagrams of act:

• cat

Words found within act:

at ta

• Definitions:
• perform an action, or work out or perform (an action); "think before you act"; "We must move quickly"; "The governor should act on the new energy ... behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself; "You should act like an adult"; "Don't behave like a fool"; "What makes her do this way?"; "The dog acts ferocious, but he is really afraid of people" play a role or part; "Gielgud played Hamlet"; "She wants to act Lady Macbeth, but she is too young for the role"; "She played the servant to her husband's master" discharge one's duties; "She acts as the chair"; "In what capacity are you acting?" pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind; "He acted the idiot"; "She plays deaf when the news are bad" a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body be suitable for theatrical performance; "This scene acts well" something that people do or cause to happen work: have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected; "The voting process doesn't work as well as people thought"; "How does your idea work in practice?"; "This method doesn't work"; "The breaks of my new car act quickly"; "The medicine works only if you take it with a lot of water" a subdivision of a play or opera or ballet be engaged in an activity, often for no particular purpose other than pleasure a short theatrical performance that is part of a longer program; "he did his act three times every evening"; "she had a catchy little routine"; "it was one of the best numbers he ever did" dissemble: behave unnaturally or affectedly; "She's just acting" a manifestation of insincerity; "he put on quite an act for her benefit" perform on a stage or theater; "She acts in this play"; "He acted in `Julius Caesar'"; "I played in `A Christmas Carol'"
• Act were a short-lived synthpop group signed to ZTT Records in the late 1980s, and comprising Thomas Leer and ex-Propaganda vocalist Claudia Brücken. Besides electropop and disco the group were also influenced by psychedelic rock and musical theatre. ...
• ACT, or Automated Confirmation of Transactions, is a Nasdaq Stock Market system for reporting and clearing trades. ...
• An act is a major division of a theatrical play or opera. The term may also be used for equivalent major sections of other entertainments such as film or television.
• The ACT, formerly the ACT Assessment, is a college-entrance achievement test produced by ACT, Inc. It emerged in 1959 as a competitor to the College Board's Scholastic Aptitude Test, now the SAT Reasoning Test. ...
• ACT-R (pronounced act-ARE: Adaptive Control of Thought--Rational) is a cognitive architecture mainly developed by John R. Anderson at Carnegie Mellon University.
• A bill or measure passed into law. Also used to describe a comprehensive piece of proposed legislation with multiple components.
• The Organic Foods Production Act of 1990, as amended (7 USC 6501 et seq.).
• A large division of a full-length play, separated from the other act or acts by an intermission.
• An alternative to the SAT, this test has gained wide acceptance by a broad range of institutions in recent years and is given during the school year at test centers. The ACT tests English, mathematics, reading, and science reasoning. ...
• One of the main divisions of a drama, opera or ballet, usually completing a part of the action and often having a climax of its own.
• Operas are generally composed and performed in large segments called acts. An act is one segment of the entire performance; several acts together comprise an opera. Although some operas have only one act, most have three or four. ...
• A bill that has been signed into law by the governor.
• means the Act of August 24, 1966 (Pub. L. 89-544), (commonly known as the Laboratory Animal Welfare Act), as amended by the Act of December 24, 1970 (Pub. L. 91-579), (the Animal Welfare Act of 1970), the Act of April 22, 1976 (Pub. L. ...
• A portion of an opera designated by the composer, which has a dramatic structure of its own.
• a Bill that has been passed by Parliament, received Royal Assent, and become law.
• An expression of will or performance voluntarily done by a person and of such nature that certain legal consequences attach to it.
• A bill which has been made law by passing both houses of the Legislature, and which either has been signed by the Governor, filed without the Governor's signature, or passed by both houses of the Legislature over the Governor's veto. ...
• provided for urban segregation and regulation of conditions in black areas. 1
• A bill passed by the Legislature and approved by the Governor.
• Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997
• The Federal Water Pollution Control Act, also known as the Clean Water Act, as amended, 33. USC 1251, et. seq.
• in the legislative sense, a bill or measure passed by both houses of Congress; a law.
• A law made by Parliament or a provincial legislature. The process of making an Act of Parliament begins with the introduction of a proposed Act, or bill, in one of the two houses of Parliament (the Senate or the House of Commons). ...
• a statute enacted or passed into law by a legislature or Parliament;
• A bill which has become law after being passed by the Legislative Assembly and then gazetted by the Chief Minister.
• Advanced Cell Technology is a biotechnology organization and is located in Massachusetts in USA. (JA).
• To perform an action.
• A collection of scenes forming one of the main sections of a script. In stage plays and teleplays, acts are explicitly indicated in the script (eg "End of Act One"); in features, they are not. One-hour TV dramas are usually broken into four acts, plus a teaser, coinciding with commercial breaks. ...
• The final, formal product of a legislative (law-making) body that requires the signature of the president or governor to make it into law. It may also become law by a legislature overriding a veto.
• means the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933, as amended.

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