different between portrayal vs acting
portrayal
English
Etymology
portray +? -al.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /?p???t?e?.?l/
- Rhymes: -e??l
Noun
portrayal (plural portrayals)
- The act of portraying.
- The result of portraying; a representation, description, or portrait.
- 1866, Charlotte Yonge, The Dove in the Eagle's Nest
- He had already designed the portrayal of his father as the old white king, and himself as the young white king, in a series of woodcuts illustrating the narrative which culminated in the one romance of his life, ...
- 1909, Arnold Bennett, Literary Taste
- For days afterwards you will not be able to look upon a child without recalling Lamb's portrayal of the grace of childhood.
- 1866, Charlotte Yonge, The Dove in the Eagle's Nest
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acting
English
Etymology
From the verb act.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?æk.t??/
Adjective
acting (not comparable)
- 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
- present participle of act
Noun
acting (countable and uncountable, plural actings)
- (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,
- 1685, Herbert Croft, Some Animadversions upon a book intituled, The Theory of the Earth, London, Preface,[1]
- (law) Something done by a party — so called to avoid confusion with the legal senses of deed and action.
- Pretending.
- (drama) The occupation of an actor.
Translations
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