Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word ACT

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Definitions of ACT

1. The process of doing something.
2. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
3. Initialism of w:American College Test.
4. (countable) An instance of a certain standardized college admissions test in the United States, originally called the .
5. (uncountable) Acronym of acceptance and commitment therapy.
6. (countable) Something done, a deed.
7. (obsolete, uncountable) Actuality.
8. (theology) Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work.
9. (law, countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
10. (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
11. (countable, drama) A division of a theatrical performance.
12. (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
13. (countable) Any organized activity.
14. (countable) A display of behaviour.
15. (law) Ellipsis of act of parliament.
16. (intransitive) To do something.
17. (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
18. (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
19. (intransitive) Of a play: to be acted out (well or badly).
20. (intransitive) To behave in a certain manner for an indefinite length of time.
21. (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
22. (intransitive) To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
23. (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
24. (transitive) To play (a role).
25. (transitive) To feign.
26. (obsolete, transitive) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.
27. (obsolete, Scotland, transitive) To enact; to decree.
28. Ellipsis of Act of Parliament.
29. (intransitive, law) To carry out work as a legal representative in relation to a particular legal matter.
30. A @init of:Australian Capital Territory federal territory in Australia.
31. Initialism of w:Association of Consumers and Taxpayers, a political party of New Zealand.
32. (law, countable) (In the United States) A legislative proposal, a bill that has not yet become law.
33. (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.
34. (text messaging) Clipping of actually.

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Examples of Using ACT in a Sentence

• The politics of Antigua and Barbuda takes place in a framework of a unitary parliamentary representative democratic monarchy, wherein the sovereign of Antigua and Barbuda is the head of state, appointing a governor-general to act as vice-regal representative in the nation.
• It affords similar protections against discrimination to Americans with disabilities as the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which made discrimination based on race, religion, sex, national origin, and other characteristics illegal, and later sexual orientation and gender identity.
• In the terminology of law, an assault is the act of causing physical harm or unwanted physical contact to another person, or, in some legal definitions, the threat or attempt to do so.
• This act marked a significant transformation of the city from a Jewish metropolis to a small pagan settlement dedicated to the cult of Capitoline Jupiter.
• A positive test indicates that the chemical is mutagenic and therefore may act as a carcinogen, because cancer is often linked to mutation.
• The Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical (ATC) Classification System is a drug classification system that classifies the active ingredients of drugs according to the organ or system on which they act and their therapeutic, pharmacological and chemical properties.
• Biological warfare, also known as germ warfare, is the use of biological toxins or infectious agents such as bacteria, viruses, insects, and fungi with the intent to kill, harm or incapacitate humans, animals or plants as an act of war.
• Established in 1694 to act as the English Government's banker and debt manager, and still one of the bankers for the Government of the United Kingdom, it is the world's eighth-oldest bank.
• According to the Book of Genesis, God commanded the biblical patriarch Abraham to be circumcised, an act to be followed by his male descendants on the eighth day of life, symbolizing the covenant between God and the Jewish people.
• In practice, executive authority is entrusted to the Cabinet, a committee of ministers of the Crown chaired by the Prime Minister of Canada that act as the executive committee of the King's Privy Council for Canada and are responsible to the democratically elected House of Commons.
• Coitus interruptus, also known as withdrawal, pulling out or the pull-out method, is an act of birth control during penetrative sexual intercourse, whereby the penis is withdrawn from a vagina prior to ejaculation so that the ejaculate (semen) may be directed away in an effort to avoid insemination.
• Human cannibalism is the act or practice of humans eating the flesh or internal organs of other human beings.
• Cross-dressing is the act of wearing clothes traditionally or stereotypically associated with a different gender.
• Thus, from a consequentialist standpoint, a morally right act (including omission from acting) is one that will produce a good outcome.
• The term crime does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition, One proposed definition is that a crime or offence (or criminal offence) is an act harmful not only to some individual but also to a community, society, or the state ("a public wrong").
• In its narrow sense, the term celibacy is applied only to those for whom the unmarried state is the result of a sacred vow, act of renunciation, or religious conviction.

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