different between portrait vs acting

English

Alternative forms

• pourtraict (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French portraict, pourtraict, nominal use of the past participle of portraire (“portray”), from Latin pr?trah?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??t??t/, (rare) IPA^(key): /?p??t?e?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p??t??t/, (rare) IPA^(key): /?p??t?e?t/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?po??t??t/, (rare) IPA^(key): /?po??t?e?t/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?po?t??t/, (rare) IPA^(key): /?po?t?e?t/

Noun

portrait (countable and uncountable, plural portraits)

1. (countable) A painting or other picture of a person, especially the head and shoulders.
   • a. 1792, Joshua Reynolds, Discourses on Painting and the Fine Arts

     In portraits, the grace, and, we may add, the likeness, consists more in the general air than in the exact similitude of every feature.

2. (countable, figuratively) An accurate depiction of a person, a mood, etc.

3. (computing, printing) A print orientation where the vertical sides are longer than the horizontal sides.

Antonyms

• (print mode or selection): landscape
• (print mode or selection): profile

Related terms

• portray

Translations

Verb

portrait (third-person singular simple present portraits, present participle portraiting, simple past and past participle portraited)

1. (obsolete) To portray; to draw.

Adjective

portrait (not comparable)

1. Representing the actual features of an individual; not ideal.

   a portrait bust; a portrait statue

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.t??/

Noun

portrait m (plural portraits)

1. portrait
2. (printing) portrait (format)
3. description (of a person or things)

Antonyms

• (2) paysage

Derived terms

• portrait craché
• refaire le portrait

Descendants

• ? Dutch: portret
  • Afrikaans: portret
  • ? Indonesian: potret
• ? German: Porträt

Further reading

• “portrait” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norman

Noun

portrait m (plural portraits)

1. (Jersey) portrait

English

Etymology

From the verb act.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æk.t??/

Adjective

acting (not comparable)

1. Temporarily assuming the duties or authority of another person when they are unable to do their job.

   The Acting Minister must sign Executive Council documents in a Minister's absence.

   Acting President of the United States is a temporary office in the government of the United States.

Translations

See also

• pro tem

Verb

acting

1. present participle of act

Noun

acting (countable and uncountable, plural actings)

1. (countable, obsolete) An action or deed.
   • 1685, Herbert Croft, Some Animadversions upon a book intituled, The Theory of the Earth, London, Preface,^[1]

     […] he does so much magnifie Nature and her Actings in all this material World, as he gives just cause of suspicion that he hath made her a kind of joynt Deess with God in the Affairs thereof;

   • 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt et al., p. 10,^[2]

     […] I desire this Account may pass with them, rather for a Direction to themselves to act by, than a History of my actings,

2. (law) Something done by a party — so called to avoid confusion with the legal senses of deed and action.
3. Pretending.
4. (drama) The occupation of an actor.

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