act

act has 31 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 3.

Definitions

• n.. That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.
• n.. The result of public deliberation; the decision or determination of a legislative body, council, court of justice, etc.; a decree, edit, law, judgment, resolve, award; as, an act of Parliament, or of Congress.
• n.. A formal solemn writing, expressing that something has been done.
• n.. A performance of part of a play; one of the principal divisions of a play or dramatic work in which a certain definite part of the action is completed.
• n.. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
• n.. A state of reality or real existence as opposed to a possibility or possible existence.
• n.. Process of doing; action. In act, in the very doing; on the point of (doing).
• v. t.. To move to action; to actuate; to animate.
• v. t.. To perform; to execute; to do.
• v. t.. To perform, as an actor; to represent dramatically on the stage.
• v. t.. To assume the office or character of; to play; to personate; as, to act the hero.
• v. t.. To feign or counterfeit; to simulate.