Act

Noun

 * 1)  Something done, a deed.
 * 2)  Actuality.
 * 3)  A product of a legislative body, a statute.
 * 4) The process of doing something.
 * 5)  A formal or official record of something done.
 * 6)  A division of a theatrical performance.
 * 7)  A display of behaviour.
 * 8)  A performer or performers in a show.

Verb

 * 1)  To do something.
 * 2)  To perform a theatrical role.
 * 3)  To behave in a certain way.
 * 4)  To convey an appearance of being.
 * 5)  To have an effect (on).
 * 6)  To play (a role).
 * 7)  To feign.
 * 8)  To map via a homomorphism to a group of automorphisms (of).

Adjectives for Act
virtuous; generous; gracious; unspeakable; self-confident; aggressive; dastardly; ruthless; loathsome; detestable; horrific;  barbarous ; ignominious; brutal; wilful; rash; servile; cowardly; militant; hostile; mutinous; lawless; illicit; churlish; unknown; condescending; reprehensible;  compromising; unfortunate; suspicious; ungallant; unwise; impulsive; thoughtless; childish; gauche; dauntless; hardy; hazardous; official; ritualistic; conspicuous; overt; inopportune; voluntary; unremembered; well-planned; expressive; benevolent; needless; oppressive; conscientious; exasperating; arbitrary; sublime;  amusing;  incongruous; valid;  symptomatic;  disadvantageous; adumbrative; heroic; authenticated; meritorious; unfeeling; decisive;  instinctive; valiant; beneficent; disinterested; crowning; innumerable (pl); offensive; daring; energetic; lugubrious; touching; specific;  governmental ; noble; salutary; impolitic; disdainful; violent; dishonorable;  ferocious; generous; cogitative; unpopular; infamous; creative; atrocious; dreaded; mischievous; imposing;  inexpiable;  illogical;  egotistic; compulsive; overbold; unwarrantable; disgraceful; unauthorized; superfluous; defensible; treasonable; climactic; derisive; craven; irrevocable; impudent.

Verbs for Act

 * (general) achieve -; applaud -; behold -; betray -; bring to pass -; catch in the -; commend -; commit -; condemn -; derive from -; dispense with -; incite -; inspire -; perform -; provoke -; pursue -; smile upon -; take in -; urge in -; view -; visualize -; abides -; - blurs; - commences; - denotes; - overtakes; - unfolds; embody - in; frustrate -; galvanize into -;  goad into -; govern -.
 * (legal statute) abolish -; abrogate -; annul -; broaden -; design -; disallow -; invalidate -; invoke -; make void -; outlaw -; proclaim -; put an end to -; repeal -; resurrect -; set aside -; supersede -; suspend -; term -; violate.

Adverbs for Act
ignominiously; shamefully; disgracefully; irrationally; impulsively; impetuously; vengefully; abnormally; irregularly; generously; cautiously; coldly; officially; officiously; erratically; superfluously; adversely; involuntarily; admirably; imprudently; ostensibly; mercifully;  independently;  recklessly; detrimentally; impecuniously;  deliberately; frivolously; graciously; viciously; self-confidently; aggressively; unspeakably; ruthlessly; detestably; brutally; wilfully; servilely;  mutinously; churlishly; compromisingly; condescendingly; gallantly; impulsively; dauntlessly; disinterestedly; offensively; disdainfully; atrociously; illogically; treasonably.

Synonyms for Act

 * deed
 * statute
 * pretense
 * perform, enact, simulate, do, make, play, operate, effect, execute, continue, accomplish, transact, enforce, achieve, administer, consummate, persevere, perpetrate, action, feat, exercise, work, operation, movement, accomplishment, execution, proceeding, exploit, transaction, performance, achievement, effect.

Antonyms for Act
refrain, hesitate, halt, abstain, give up, cease, stop, discontinue, cessation, inertia, rest, stoppage, repose, inaction, indolence, quiescence, inactivity, immobility, quiet.

Thesaurus
accomplish; accomplished fact; accomplishment; achieve; achievement; acquit; act; act a part; act as; act as foil; act out; acta; acting; action; actions; activism; activity; acts; address; adventure; affect; affectation; afterpiece; air; ape; appear; assume; barnstorm; be effective; be in action; be productive; bear; bearing; behave; behavior; behavior pattern; behavioral norm; behavioral science; bill; bit; blow; bluff; bring about; bring into being; bring to fruition; bylaw; canon; carriage; carry; cause; characterize; chaser; come out; comport; comportment; concurrent resolution; conduct; constitution; copy; counterfeit; coup; course; cover up; culture pattern; curtain; curtain call; curtain raiser; custom; dealings; decree; deed; demean; demeanor; deport; deportment; dictate; dictation; discourse; dissemble; dissimulate; divertimento; divertissement; do; doing; doings; edict; effectuate; effort; emote; emotionalize; employment; enact; enaction; enactment; endeavor; engineer; enterprise; epilogue; execute; exercise; exode; exodus; exploit; expository scene; fait accompli; fake; feat; feign; finale; folkway; form; formality; formula; formulary; four-flush; function; functioning; gammon; gest; gestures; get top billing; go; go on; goings-on; guise; hand; handiwork; have effect; have free play; have play; hoke act; impersonate; industrialize; institution; interlude; intermezzo; intermission; introduction; job; joint resolution; jus; law; lawmaking; legislation; legislature; let on; let on like; lex; maintien; make; make a pretense; make as if; make believe; make like; maneuver; manner; manners; masquerade; masquerade as; mass-produce; measure; method; methodology; methods; mien; militate; mime; mimic; misbehave; modus vivendi; motion; motions; move; movements; moves; number; observable behavior; occupation; officiate; operate; operation; operations; ordinance; ordonnance; overproduce; overt act; pantomime; pass for; passage; passing; patter; pattern; percolate; perform; performance; perk; personate; play; play a part; play possum; play the lead; playact; poise; port; portray; pose; pose as; posture; practice; praxis; prescript; prescription; presence; pretend; pretend to be; procedure; proceed; proceeding; process; produce; production; profess; prologue; put on; quit; react; realize; register; regulation; represent; res gestae; resolution; routine; rubric; rule; ruling; run; scene; serve; sham; shtick; simulate; sketch; skit; social science; song and dance; stand-up comedy act; standing order; star; statute; steal the show; step; stooge; striptease; stroke; stunt; style; swing; tactics; take; take effect; take off; thing; thing done; tick; tone; tour de force; transaction; tread the boards; troupe; turn; undertaking; upstage; volume-produce; way; way of life; ways; work; working; workings; works

Etymology
From acta:, plural of actum:, from ago:.

Pronunciation

 * , {{SAMPA|/{kt/}}

Meronyms

 * scene

Holonyms

 * play

Derived terms

 * act of attainder
 * act of faith
 * act of god/act of God
 * act of parliament
 * act of settlement


 * act of terrorism
 * act of war
 * caught in the act
 * The Acts of the Apostles

Related terms

 * action
 * agent


 * agency
 * active

Derived terms

 * act a fool
 * act like a bull in a china shop
 * act on
 * act out
 * act smart
 * act up


 * act upon
 * actor
 * actress
 * enact
 * interact
 * react
 * reactive

Related terms

 * action
 * active


 * activate
 * deactivate

Noun

 * American Sign Language:
 * Armenian: գործողություն (gorçoġut'yun),
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Ewe: dɔwɔwɔ
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:, מעשה
 * Indonesian: tindakan, perlakuan, perbuatan


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: (, kōi)
 * Malay: perbuatan, tindakan
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ato, acto
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Sinhala: ක්‍රියාව
 * Slovak: skutok, čin
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Telugu: చేత (chEta), పని (pani)
 * Ukrainian:, вчинок


 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * Slovak: skutok, čin
 * Swahili:


 * Armenian: ակտ (akt)
 * Bulgarian:, постановление
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: loi, acte , édit
 * German:, , Verordnung
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: חק
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: (, hōrei)


 * Malay:
 * Portuguese: ato, acto
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: achd
 * Sinhala: පනත
 * Slovak: skutok, čin
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Telugu: చట్టం
 * Ukrainian:
 * Welsh: deddf


 * American Sign Language:
 * Armenian: գործողություն (gorçoġut'yun)
 * Bulgarian: постъпка,
 * Dutch:
 * Ewe: dɔwɔwɔ
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: אקט


 * Italian:
 * Malay:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ato, ação , acto , acção
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovak: skutok, čin
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: చర్య, క్రియ


 * Bulgarian:
 * Ewe: dɔwɔwɔ
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:


 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Slovak: skutok, čin
 * Spanish: hecho
 * Swahili:


 * Armenian: գործողություն (gorçoġut'yun)
 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: (, maku)


 * Malay:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ato, acto
 * Russian: ,
 * Sinhala: (නාට්‍යයෙහි) අංකය
 * Slovak: dejstvo
 * Spanish: acto
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: అంకము (నాటకం లోని భాగం)
 * Ukrainian:, дія
 * Welsh:


 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Italian: ,


 * Malay:
 * Portuguese: ato, acto
 * Slovak: skutok, čin
 * Swahili:


 * : agar
 * : veika, veiksmas

Verb

 * American Sign Language:
 * Bulgarian: правя,
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:


 * German:
 * Greek:, ,
 * Italian: agire
 * Latin: ago, gero, facio
 * Polish: działać / zdziałać, robić / zrobić
 * Russian: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Ukrainian: діяти,


 * American Sign Language:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish:, , opføre
 * Dutch: (on stage),  (general),  (on stage),  (general),  (on stage)
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:
 * Latin: ago, gero
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Telugu: నటించు (naTinchu)
 * Ukrainian: грати


 * American Sign Language:
 * Bulgarian: държа се, постъпвам
 * Danish: agere, opføre
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:
 * French: se comporter
 * German:, ,


 * Greek:
 * Latin: ago, facio, geror, me gero
 * Polish: zachowywać się
 * Russian: вести себя
 * Swahili:
 * Telugu: నటించు (naTinchu), ప్రవర్తించు (pravartinchu)
 * Ukrainian: поводитись


 * Bulgarian: действам
 * Dutch: ,
 * Finnish:


 * German:
 * Swahili:


 * Bulgarian: въздействам
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:


 * Finnish:
 * German:, , auswirken
 * Greek:


 * : tɨ'gai
 * : faire (1), jouer (2), se comporter (3), réagir (4), agir (1, 5)
 * : agar
 * : bertindak, melakukan
 * : agire


 * : 行動する (kōdō suru) (3); 実行する (jikkō suru) (1,4); 出演する (shutsuen suru) (2)
 * : veikti, vaidinti
 * : actuar
 * : agera (1,2), handla (1)
 * : agera (1,2), handla (1)

Anagrams

 * ATC, cat, Cat, CAT, tac, TAC, TCA