Definition of act

Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of act is as below...

Act (v. t.) To feign or counterfeit; to simulate.

Lern More About Act

Contagion :: Contagion (n.) The act or means of communicating any influence to the mind or heart; as, the contagion of enthusiasm..
Repent :: Repent (v. i.) To change the mind, or the course of conduct, on account of regret or dissatisfaction..
Expenditure :: Expenditure (n.) The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement..
Effeminacy :: Effeminacy (n.) Characteristic quality of a woman, such as softness, luxuriousness, delicacy, or weakness, which is unbecoming a man; womanish delicacy or softness; -- used reproachfully of men..
Paraphimosis :: Paraphimosis (n.) A condition in which the prepuce, after being retracted behind the glans penis, is constricted there, and can not be brought forward into place again..
Suture :: Suture (n.) The act of sewing; also, the line along which two things or parts are sewed together, or are united so as to form a seam, or that which resembles a seam..
Rescue :: Rescue (v.) The act of rescuing; deliverance from restraint, violence, or danger; liberation..
Intromission :: Intromission (n.) The act of sending in or of putting in; insertion.
Retainer :: Retainer (n.) The act of keeping dependents, or the state of being in dependence..
Employment :: Employment (n.) The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed..
Photolithographer :: Photolithographer (n.) One who practices, or one who employs, photolithography..
Mastiff :: Mastiff (n.) A breed of large dogs noted for strength and courage. There are various strains, differing in form and color, and characteristic of different countries..
Stuff :: Stuff (n.) To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies..
Hopping :: Hopping (n.) The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing..
Reconcilable :: Reconcilable (a.) Capable of being reconciled; as, reconcilable adversaries; an act reconciable with previous acts..
Thermodynamics :: Thermodynamics (n.) The science which treats of the mechanical action or relations of heat.
Poem :: Poem (n.) A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and poetic diction; -- contradistinguished from prose; as, the poems of Homer or of Milton..
Fight :: Fight (v. i.) To act in opposition to anything; to struggle against; to contend; to strive; to make resistance.
Rational :: Rational (a.) Expressing the type, structure, relations, and reactions of a compound; graphic; -- said of formulae. See under Formula..
Gunning :: Gunning (n.) The act or practice of hunting or shooting game with a gun.
Random Fonts
Most Popular

close
Privacy Policy   GDPR Policy   Terms & Conditions   Contact Us