Sanakirja
Tekoälykääntäjä
Kuvat
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Synonyymit
Määritelmät
Verbi
- (intransitive) To do something.
- (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
- (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.
- (intransitive, law) To carry out work as a legal representative in relation to a particular legal matter.
- (intransitive, mathematics, construed with on or upon, of an algebraic structure) To possess an action onto (some other structure). Examples include the group action of a group on a set, the action of a ring on a module by scalar multiplication, and the action of a group or algebra on a vector space via a representation.
- (obsolete, transitive) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.
- (obsolete, Scotland, transitive) To enact; to decree.
Adverbi
- (text messaging) Clipping of actually.
Substantiivi
- (countable) Something done, a deed.
- (obsolete, uncountable) Actuality.
- (theology) Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work.
- (law, countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
- (law, countable) (In the United States) A legislative proposal, a bill that has not yet become law.
- 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.
- (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
- A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
- (law) Ellipsis of act of parliament.
Esimerkit
- an act of goodwill
- That best portion of a good man's life, / His little, nameless, unremembered acts / Of kindness and of love.
- The seeds of plants are not at first in act, but in possibility, what they afterward grow to be.
- But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.
- He was caught in the act.
- “H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what [...] will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth. […]”
- The pivotal moment in the play was in the first scene of the second act.
- Which act did you prefer? The soloist or the band?
- The minute you let it be known you're planning a sales campaign everybody wants to get into the act.
- If you don't act soon, you will be in trouble.
- that we act our temporal affairs with a desire no greater than our necessity
- Industry doth beget by producing good habits, and facility of acting things expedient for us to do.
- Uplifted hands that at convenient times / Could act extortion and the worst of crimes.
- I started acting at the age of eleven in my local theatre.
- He's acting strangely - I think there's something wrong with him.
- He acted unconcerned so the others wouldn't worry.
- High-pressure oxygen acts on the central nervous system and may cause convulsions or death.
- Gravitational force acts on heavy bodies.
- He's been acting Shakespearean leads since he was twelve.
- He acted the angry parent, but was secretly amused.
- With acted fear the villain thus pursued.
- This group acts on the circle, so it can't be left-orderable!
- Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul.
- I thought the last act was the best of all.
Taivutusmuodot
| Partisiipin perfekti | acted | Imperfekti | acted |
| Partisiipin preesens | acting | Monikko | acts |
| Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | acts | Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens | acteth (vanhahtava) |