ACTname

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  governmentpoliticsInitialism of Association of Consumers and Taxpayers, a political party of New Zealand.

ACTnoun

• 1

  An instance of a certain standardized college admissions test in the United States, originally called the American College Test.

actnoun詞源 1/ækt/

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  Something done, a deed.

  • an act of goodwill
  • That best portion of a good man's life, / His little, nameless, unremembered acts / Of kindness and of love.
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  obsoleteActuality.

  • The seeds of plants are not at first in act, but in possibility, what they afterward grow to be.
• 3

  lifestylereligiontheologySomething done once and for all, as distinguished from a work.

• 4

  lawA product of a legislative body, a statute.

  • But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.
• 5

  law(In the United States) A legislative proposal, a bill that has not yet become law.

  • Under current law, employers can drag out the union election process... Under the PRO Act, workers and the NLRB set union election procedures. The employer is not involved.
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  The process of doing something.

  • He was caught in the act of stealing.
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  A formal or official record of something done.

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  broadcastingdramadramaturgyA division of a theatrical performance.

  • “H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what […] will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth. […]”
  • The pivotal moment in the play was in the first scene of the second act.

actverb詞源 1/ækt/

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  To do something.

  • If you don’t act soon, you will be in trouble.
• 2

  obsoleteTo do (something); to perform.

  • that we act our temporal affairs with a deſire no greater than our neceſſity
  • Industry doth beget by producing good habits, and facility of acting things expedient for us to do.
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  To perform a theatrical role.

  • I started acting at the age of eleven in my local theatre.
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  Of a play: to be acted out (well or badly).

  • But whatever types he assumes, the need to have a good play which acts delightfully well before the audience, and to their delectation, is the dominant thrust. If the play acts well, the director gets the credits.
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  To behave in a certain manner for an indefinite length of time.

  • A dog which acts aggressively is likely to bite.
  • I believe that Bill’s stuck-up because of the way that he acts.
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  To convey an appearance of being.

  • He acted unconcerned so the others wouldn’t worry.
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  To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.

  • act on behalf of John
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  To have an effect (on).

  • High-pressure oxygen acts on the central nervous system and may cause convulsions or death.
  • Gravitational force acts on heavy bodies.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• the Australian Capital Territory
• American College Test
• Association of Consumers and Taxpayers
• acceptance and commitment therapy
• Act of Parliament
• actually