Definition of act

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Act (n.) That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed..

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Lactic :: Lactic (a.) Of or pertaining to milk; procured from sour milk or whey; as, lactic acid; lactic fermentation, etc..
Enouncement :: Enouncement (n.) Act of enouncing; that which is enounced.
Interruption :: Interruption (n.) The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon..
Mark :: Mark (n.) Limit or standard of action or fact; as, to be within the mark; to come up to the mark..
But :: But (adv. & conj.) Excepting or excluding the fact that; save that; were it not that; unless; -- elliptical, for but that..
Sanation :: Sanation (n.) The act of healing or curing.
Undertaking :: Undertaking (n.) The act of one who undertakes, or engages in, any project or business..
Hacqueton :: Hacqueton (n.) Same as Acton.
Deliver :: Deliver (v. t.) To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or feared; -- often with from or out of; as, to deliver one from captivity, or from fear of death..
Archaic :: Archaic (a.) Of or characterized by antiquity or archaism; antiquated; obsolescent.
Factorial :: Factorial (n.) The product of the consecutive numbers from unity up to any given number.
Dahlin :: Dahlin (n.) A variety of starch extracted from the dahlia; -- called also inulin. See Inulin.
Oriskany :: Oriskany (a.) Designating, or pertaining to, certain beds, chiefly limestone, characteristic of the latest period of the Silurian age..
Estreat :: Estreat (v. t.) To extract or take out from the records of a court, and send up to the court of exchequer to be enforced; -- said of a forfeited recognizance..
Articulate :: Articulate (a.) Distinctly uttered; spoken so as to be intelligible; characterized by division into words and syllables; as, articulate speech, sounds, words..
Detracted :: Detracted (imp. & p. p.) of Detrac.
Voice :: Voice (n.) A particular mode of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses..
Distracting :: Distracting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Distrac.
Luck :: Luck (n.) That which happens to a person; an event, good or ill, affecting one's interests or happiness, and which is deemed casual; a course or series of such events regarded as occurring by chance; chance; hap; fate; fortune; often, one's habitual or characteristic fortune; as, good, bad, ill, or hard luck. Luck is often used for good luck; as, luck is better than skill..
Stay :: Stay (v. i.) To wait; to attend; to forbear to act.
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