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Qué (quién) es ACT - definición
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ACT; Act (legislature); A.C.T.; Enacting; Act (disambiguation); Acts (disambiguation); ACT (disambiguation); Acts of government
act
(acts, acting, acted)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
When you act, you do something for a particular purpose.
The deaths occurred when police acted to stop widespread looting and vandalism...
I do not doubt that the bank acted properly.
VERB: V, V adv/prep
2.
If you act on advice or information, you do what has been advised or suggested.
A patient will usually listen to the doctor's advice and act on it.
VERB: V on/upon n
3.
If someone acts in a particular way, they behave in that way.
...a gang of youths who were acting suspiciously...
He acted as if he hadn't heard any of it...
Open wounds act like a magnet to flies.
= behave
VERB: V adv, V as if, V like n
4.
If someone or something acts as a particular thing, they have that role or function.
He acted both as the ship's surgeon and as chaplain for the men.
VERB: V as/like n
5.
If someone acts in a particular way, they pretend to be something that they are not.
Chris acted astonished as he examined the note...
Kenworthy had tried not to act the policeman.
VERB: V adj, V n
6.
When professionals such as lawyers act for you, or act on your behalf, they are employed by you to deal with a particular matter.
...the law firm that acted for Diana during her marriage split...
Because we travelled so much, Sam and I asked a broker to act on our behalf.
VERB: V for n, V prep
7.
If a force or substance acts on someone or something, it has a certain effect on them.
He's taking a dangerous drug: it acts very fast on the central nervous system...
VERB: V on/upon n
8.
If you act, or act a part in a play or film, you have a part in it.
She confessed to her parents her desire to act...
She acted in her first film when she was 13 years old.
VERB: V, V in n
9.
An act is a single thing that someone does. (FORMAL)
Language interpretation is the whole point of the act of reading...
N-COUNT: oft N of n
10.
If you say that someone's behaviour is an act, you mean that it does not express their real feelings.
His anger was real. It wasn't an act.
= pretence
N-SING
11.
An Act is a law passed by the government.
...an Act of Parliament.
N-COUNT
12.
An act in a play, opera, or ballet is one of the main parts into which it is divided.
Act II contained one of the funniest scenes I have ever witnessed...
N-COUNT: oft N num
13.
An act in a show is a short performance which is one of several in the show.
This year numerous bands are playing, as well as comedy acts...
N-COUNT
14.
If you catch someone in the act, you discover them doing something wrong or committing a crime.
The men were caught in the act of digging up buried explosives.
PHRASE: V inflects
15.
If someone who has been behaving badly cleans up their act, they start to behave in a more acceptable or responsible way. (INFORMAL)
The nation's advertisers need to clean up their act.
PHRASE: V inflects
16.
If you get in on the act, you take part in or take advantage of something that was started by someone else. (INFORMAL)
In the 1970s Kodak, anxious to get in on the act, launched its own instant camera.
PHRASE: V inflects
17.
You say that someone was in the act of doing something to indicate what they were doing when they were seen or interrupted.
Ken was in the act of paying his bill when Neil came up behind him.
PHRASE: v-link PHR -ing
18.
If you get your act together, you organize your life or your affairs so that you are able to achieve what you want or to deal with something effectively. (INFORMAL)
The Government should get its act together...
PHRASE: V inflects
19.
Act
·vi To perform on the stage; to represent a character.
II. Act ·vt To feign or counterfeit; to Simulate.
III. Act ·noun A formal solemn writing, expressing that something has been done.
IV. Act ·vt To perform, as an actor; to represent dramatically on the stage.
V. Act ·vi To exert power; to produce an effect; as, the stomach acts upon food.
VI. Act ·noun Process of doing; action. In act, in the very doing; on the point of (doing).
VII. Act ·noun A state of reality or real existence as opposed to a possibility or possible existence.
X. Act ·noun That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.
XII. Act ·noun A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
XIII. Act ·vi To behave or conduct, as in morals, private duties, or public offices; to bear or deport one's self; as, we know not why he has acted so.
XIV. Act ·noun A performance of part of a play; one of the principal divisions of a play or dramatic work in which a certain definite part of the action is completed.
XV. Act ·vi To perform actions; to fulfill functions; to put forth energy; to move, as opposed to remaining at rest; to carry into effect a determination of the will.
XVI. Act ·noun The result of public deliberation; the decision or determination of a legislative body, council, court of justice, ·etc.; a decree, edit, law, judgment, resolve, award; as, an act of Parliament, or of Congress.
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Ejemplos de uso de ACT
1. The accused have been booked under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, MCOCA, Unlawful Activities Prevention Act, Explosives Act, Explosive Substances Act, Railway Act, Passport Act and Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act.
2. This year alone, there have been hundreds of such bills, among them: the Kids Come First Act, the Protect Our Children First Act, the Prepare All Kids Act, the Early Childhood Investment Act, the Play Every Day Act, the Safe Babies Act, the Children‘s Dental Health Improvement Act, and the Early Detection of Dyslexia in Children Act.
3. And the United States Congress was right to renew the terrorist act – the Patriot Act... (APPLAUSE) ... the terrorist prevention act called the Patriot Act.
4. And the United States Congress was right to renew the terrorist act - the Patriot Act... (APPLAUSE) ... the terrorist prevention act called the Patriot Act.
5. Both accused are facing charges under provisions of TADA (P) Act, IPC, Explosive Substances Act, Explosives Act and Damage to Public Property Act.