Acting
['æktɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the performance of a part or role in a drama.
(adj.) serving temporarily especially as a substitute; 'the acting president' .
Typist: Sam--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Act
(a.) Operating in any way.
(a.) Doing duty for another; officiating; as, an acting superintendent.
Edited by Barrett
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Deed, performance, ACTION.[2]. Personation, representation, simulation.
Typist: Morton
Examples
- This is what one gets by acting with principle. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The best faculties of man are employed for futurity: speaking is better than acting, writing is better than speaking. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- To identify acting with an aim and intelligent activity is enough to show its value--its function in experience. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The net conclusion is that acting with an aim is all one with acting intelligently. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In 1784, Mr. Bramah obtained a patent for a propeller similar in its forms to the vanes of a windmill, which by acting obliquely on the water as it revolved, pushed the boat forward. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- I might act the benevolent with them, but acting is not my _forte_. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- They are divided into classes by names indicating their purpose and mode of operation, such as single, double-acting, lift or force, reciprocating or rotary, etc. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- This was the company of Captain Horace Brooks, of the artillery, acting as infantry. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They are divided into two great classes, single and double acting engines, accordingly as the water is admitted to one side of the piston only, or to both sides alternately. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It was her acting which was no better than it should be, but the public was satisfied. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Her engines are of the twin screw, vertical triple expansion direct acting inverted cylinder type. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Myths must be judged as instruments for acting upon present conditions; all discussion about the manner of applying them concretely to the course of history is senseless. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- All the time she was here, didn't you see, George, how she was acting at the General over the way? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- My aunt is acting like a sensible woman in wishing for you. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- They were acting as a unit so far as such a thing was possible over such a vast field. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Editor: Spence