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act
English
Etymology
From Middle English acte, from Old French acte, from Latin ?cta (“register of events”), plural of ?ctum (“decree, law”), from ag? (“put in motion”). Compare German Akte (“file”). Partially displaced deed, from Old English d?d (“act, deed”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ækt/
- (AAVE) IPA(key): /æk/
- Rhymes: -ækt
Noun
act (countable and uncountable, plural acts)
- (countable) Something done, a deed.
- 1798, William Wordsworth, Lines
- That best portion of a good man's life, / His little, nameless, unremembered acts / Of kindness and of love.
- 1798, William Wordsworth, Lines
- (obsolete, uncountable) Actuality.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- The seeds of plants are not at first in act, but in possibility, what they afterward grow to be.
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- (theology) Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work.
- (countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
- The process of doing something.
- (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
- (countable, drama) A division of a theatrical performance.
- (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
- (countable) Any organized activity.
- (countable) A display of behaviour.
- A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
- (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
- to put on an act
Synonyms
- (something done): deed; see also Thesaurus:action
- (product of a legislative body): statute
- (display of behavior): pretense
Meronyms
- (drama): scene
Holonyms
- (drama): play
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
act (third-person singular simple present acts, present participle acting, simple past and past participle acted)
- (intransitive) To do something.
- (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living, Purity of Intention
- that we act our temporal affairs with a desire no greater than our necessity
- a. 1677, Isaac Barrow, Of Industry in General (sermon)
- Industry doth beget by producing good habits, and facility of acting things expedient for us to do.
- 1782, William Cowper, Expostulation
- Uplifted hands that at convenient times / Could act extortion and the worst of crimes.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living, Purity of Intention
- (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
- (intransitive) Of a play: to be acted out (well or badly).
- (intransitive) To behave in a certain manner for an indefinite length of time.
- (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
- (intransitive) To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
- (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
- (transitive) To play (a role).
- (transitive) To feign.
- With acted fear the villain thus pursued.
- (mathematics, intransitive, construed with on or upon, of a group) To map via a homomorphism to a group of automorphisms (of).
- (obsolete, transitive) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Anagrams
- ATC, CAT, CTA, Cat, TAC, TCA, cat, tac
Middle English
Noun
act
- Alternative form of acte
Old Irish
Conjunction
act
- Alternative spelling of acht (“but”)
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French acte, from Latin actus.
Noun
act n (plural acte)
- act, deed, action
Related terms
- ac?iune
See also
- fapt, fapt?
- lucru
Further reading
- act in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Scots
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ak(t)/
Noun
act (plural acts)
- an act
Verb
act (third-person singular present acts, present participle actin, past actit, past participle actit)
- act
- enact
- decree
References
- Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.
Welsh
Etymology
From English act.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /akt/
Noun
act f (plural actau)
- act
Derived terms
- Actau'r Apostolion (“Acts of the Apostles”)
- actio (“to act”)
- actor (“actor”)
- actores (“actress”)
Mutation
Further reading
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present) , “act”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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project
English
Etymology
From Latin pr?iectus, perfect passive participle of pr?ici? (“throw forth, extend; expel”).
Pronunciation
- Noun
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p??d??kt/, (rare) /?p???d??kt/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /?p???d??kt/, /?p??d??kt/
- (General American) enPR: pr?j??kt', pr?j??kt IPA(key): /?p??d???kt/, /?p??d???kt/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /?p??d??kt/, /?p?o?d??kt/
- Rhymes: -?d??kt, -?d??kt, -?d??kt, -o?d??kt
- Hyphenation: proj?ect
- Verb
- (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) enPR: pr?-j?kt? IPA(key): /p???d??kt/
- Rhymes: -?kt
- Hyphenation: pro?ject
Noun
project (plural projects)
- A planned endeavor, usually with a specific goal and accomplished in several steps or stages.
- a. 1729, John Rogers, The Greatness of the Gospel Salvation
- projects of happiness devised by human reason
- 1924, Clarence Budington Kelland, The Steadfast Heart/Chapter 22
- Rainbow, […] came forward enthusiastically to put its money into the project in sums which ran all the way from one share at ten dollars to ten shares
- 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- The proposal with China would involve a project to create artificial rain.
- The proposal with China would involve a project to create artificial rain.
- a. 1729, John Rogers, The Greatness of the Gospel Salvation
- (usually in the plural, US) An urban low-income housing building.
- (dated) An idle scheme; an impracticable design.
- (US, sports) a raw recruit who the team hopes will improve greatly with coaching; a long shot diamond in the rough
- 2014 Oct 27, Gabriele Marcotti, "Ancelotti triumphs, van Gaal's progress, Dortmund disappoint, more", ESPN FC:
- Sakho was seen as no-frills, whereas Maiga was a project who could develop into the next big thing.
- 2018 Sep 2, Arnie Melendrez Stapleton, "Broncos cut ties with 2016 first-round pick QB Lynch", WNYT:
- Elway acknowledged at the time that Lynch was a project who needed some seasoning but he expressed hope that Lynch might be a quick study. He wasn't.
- 2014 Oct 27, Gabriele Marcotti, "Ancelotti triumphs, van Gaal's progress, Dortmund disappoint, more", ESPN FC:
- (obsolete) A projectile.
- (obsolete) A projection.
- (obsolete) The place from which a thing projects.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Holland to this entry?)
Hyponyms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ?????? (purojekuto)
- ? Korean: ???? (peurojekteu)
Translations
Verb
project (third-person singular simple present projects, present participle projecting, simple past and past participle projected)
- (intransitive) To extend beyond a surface.
- Synonyms: extend, jut, protrude, stick out
- (transitive) To cast (an image or shadow) upon a surface; to throw or cast forward; to shoot forth.
- Synonyms: cast, throw
- (transitive) To extend (a protrusion or appendage) outward.
- Synonyms: extend, jut, jut out
- (transitive) To make plans for; to forecast.
- Synonyms: forecast, foresee, foretell
- (transitive, reflexive) To present (oneself), to convey a certain impression, usually in a good way.
- 1946, Dr. Ralph S. Banay, The Milwaukee Journal, Is Modern Woman a Failure:
- It is difficult to gauge the exact point at which women stop trying to fool men and really begin to deceive themselves, but an objective analyst cannot escape the conclusion (1) that partly from a natural device inherent in the species, women deliberately project upon actual or potential suitors an impression of themselves that is not an accurate picture of their total nature, and (2) that few women ever are privileged to see themselves as they really are.
- 1946, Dr. Ralph S. Banay, The Milwaukee Journal, Is Modern Woman a Failure:
- (transitive, psychology, psychoanalysis) To assume qualities or mindsets in others based on one's own personality.
- (cartography) To change the projection (or coordinate system) of spatial data with another projection.
- (geometry) To draw straight lines from a fixed point through every point of any body or figure, and let these fall upon a surface so as to form the points of a new figure.
Translations
Further reading
- John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “project”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
Dutch
Etymology
Ultimately from Latin pr?iectum. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pro??j?kt/
- Hyphenation: pro?ject
- Rhymes: -?kt
Noun
project n (plural projecten, diminutive projectje n)
- project (planned endeavor)
Derived terms
- bouwproject
- kunstproject
- projectonderwijs
- projectontwikkelaar
Related terms
- projecteren
- projectie
- projector
Descendants
- Afrikaans: projek
- ? Indonesian: proyek
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