act for
为,采取行动的,采取行动,担任
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Definitions
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- : anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance: a heroic act.
- : the process of doing: caught in the act.
- : a formal decision, law, or the like, by a legislature, ruler, court, or other authority; decree or edict; statute; judgment, resolve, or award: an act of Congress.
- : an instrument or document stating something done or transacted.
- : one of the main divisions of a play or opera: the second act of Hamlet.
- : a short performance by one or more entertainers, usually part of a variety show or radio or television program.
- : the personnel of such a group: The act broke up after 30 years.
- : false show; pretense; feint: The politician's pious remarks were all an act.
- : Philosophy. activity in process; operation. the principle or power of operation.form as determining essence.a state of realization, as opposed to potentiality.
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- : to do something; exert energy or force; be employed or operative: He acted promptly in the emergency.
- : to reach, make, or issue a decision on some matter: I am required to act before noon tomorrow.
- : to operate or function in a particular way; perform specific duties or functions: to act as manager.
- : to produce an effect; perform a function: The medicine failed to act.
- : to behave or conduct oneself in a particular fashion: to act well under all conditions.
- : to pretend; feign: Act interested even if you're bored.
- : to perform as an actor: He acted in three plays by Molière.
- : to be capable of being performed: His plays don't act well.
- : to serve or substitute: In my absence the assistant manager will act for me.
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- : to represent with one's person: to act Macbeth.
- : to feign; counterfeit: to act outraged virtue.
- : to behave as: He acted the fool.
- : Obsolete. to actuate.
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- : act on / upon to act in accordance with; follow: He acted on my advice.to have an effect on; affect: The stirring music acted on the emotions of the audience.
- : act out, to demonstrate or illustrate by pantomime or by words and gestures: The party guests acted out stories for one another.Psychology.to give overt expression to without insightful understanding: The patients acted out early traumas by getting angry with the analyst.
- : act up, to fail to function properly; malfunction: The vacuum cleaner is acting up again.to behave willfully: The children always act up in school the day before a holiday.to become painful or troublesome, especially after a period of improvement or remission: My arthritis is acting up again this morning.
- : get / have one's act together Informal. to organize one's time, job, resources, etc., so as to function efficiently: The new administration is still getting its act together.
Phrases
- act of faith
- act of God
- act on
- act one's age
- act out
- act up
- act upon
- catch in the act
- clean up (one's act)
- do a disappearing act
- get in the act
- get one's act together
- hard (tough) act to follow
- high-wire act
- in the act of
- put on an act
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
Some adherents of QAnon are running for public office, but some others have committed violent acts or threatened them, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
With Election Day just seven weeks away, the act is unlikely to become law during this session of Congress.
On July 31, the weekly $600 unemployment checks that were sent out thanks to the CARES act officially expired.
Every eligible voter’s vote should be counted and not canceled out by fraudulent acts.
The governor should forget about it until after the pandemic and legislators get their acts back together.
A spokesman for Lewisham council said last year that it would be forced to act if the family returned to Britain.
Every once in a while, they act swiftly and acknowledge the problem.
That act forever sealed his feeling for the Chief, bound it up with the war, with violence, with the gun.
The Samaritan guidelines are written around the assumption that suicide is a purely irrational act, an act spurred by illness.
But the act of killing herself done, the message was sent, and heard, and things started changing.
He caught himself in the act of listening to you too credulously—and that seemed to him unmanly and dishonorable.
He was aware that his act by this time, had helped nobody, had made no one happy or satisfied—not even himself.
He had, however, recovered sufficiently to enable him to act with promptitude and discretion.
This seems to be contrary to the spirit and intent of the act, which is primarily to centralize reserves in Federal Reserve Banks.
The Act permits member banks to accept an amount of bills not exceeding 50 per cent.