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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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umbeset
English
Etymology
From Middle English umbesetten (“to surround”), from Old English ymbsettan (“to set around, surround, beset, encompass”), from Proto-Germanic *umbi (“around”) + *satjan? (“to set”); equivalent to um- +? beset or umbe- +? set. Compare also Old English ymbsittan (“to sit around, surround”), Dutch omzetten (“to convert, transpose”), German umsetzen (“to move to another place, convert, transform, transplant, adjust, rearrange”). More at umbe, set.
Verb
umbeset (third-person singular simple present umbesets, present participle umbesetting, simple past umbeset, past participle umbeset or umbesetten)
- (obsolete or dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To block, obstruct; act detrimentally toward.
- 1922, J. Maitland Thomson, The Public Records of Scotland, Maclehose, Jackson and co., page 48:
- […] , and pressing to have bereft them of their lives by umbesetting of the high gates to that effect at divers times of before, […]
- 1972 (originally 1901), William Baird, General Wauchope, Books for Libraries Press, page 16:
- […] that king on one occasion, April 1535, having to grant a letter of protection in favour of him ‘and his wife and bairns’ against Sir Patrick Hepburn of Wauchtonne and thirty-four others for ‘umbesetting the highway for his slaughter.’
- 1922, J. Maitland Thomson, The Public Records of Scotland, Maclehose, Jackson and co., page 48:
- (obsolete or dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To overwhelm; cover completely.
- 1885, John Humberger, The Conquest and Triumph of Divine Wisdom and Love in Predestination, J. L. Traiger, unmarked page:
- The Opponents Umbeset with Trickery.
- 1952, Walter Milton, The Goad of Love, Faber & Faber, page 201:
- But soothly, of sithes the more I am umbeset with anguish of heart, and destitute of all men’s comfort, the more favourable and godly I find her to me.
- 1971, Richard Rolle, The Fire of Love, CCEL, page 164:
- Certainly a good soul umbeset with many diseases, and noyed with the heat of temptation, can not feel the sweetness of God’s love as it is in itself;
- 1885, John Humberger, The Conquest and Triumph of Divine Wisdom and Love in Predestination, J. L. Traiger, unmarked page:
Derived terms
- umbesetting
Related terms
- beset
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