Crossword clues for acting
acting
- Not permanent
- Thespian's job
- Pro tem
- Playing a role
- Thespian's forte
- Role playing
- Playing field?
- Field's field
- Word in temporary job titles
- What hammy musicians also pursue
- Thespians' field
- Thespian's work
- Thespian's specialty
- Thespian's profession
- Temporarily taking over another's duties
- Taking on duties temporarily
- Stage skill
- Side job for some singers
- Serving temporarily
- Performing in a movie
- Performing in a film
- Making a production?
- Emma Watson skill
- Embodying a character
- Business for Ford?
- Breaking a leg?
- Strasberg subject
- Job for a thespian
- Temporary, as a position
- Dramatics
- Provisional
- Trouper's skill
- Histrionic skill
- "The perfect idiot's profession," per Katharine Hepburn
- Pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind
- Discharge one's duties
- Perform on a stage or theater
- Behave unnaturally or affectedly
- Often the one desired or expected
- Be suitable for theatrical performance
- Have an effect or outcome
- Conduct or comport oneself
- Play a role or part
- Show a certain behavior
- Behave in a certain manner
- The performance of a part or role in a drama
- What Cotten cottons to
- Only a temporary profession?
- Playing a part
- Player’s profession: as a substitute?
- Performing on stage
- Temporarily doing another's duties
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Act \Act\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Acted; p. pr. & vb. n. Acting.] [L. actus, p. p. of agere to drive, lead, do; but influenced by E. act, n.]
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To move to action; to actuate; to animate. [Obs.]
Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul.
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To perform; to execute; to do. [Archaic]
That we act our temporal affairs with a desire no greater than our necessity.
--Jer. Taylor.Industry doth beget by producing good habits, and facility of acting things expedient for us to do.
--Barrow.Uplifted hands that at convenient times Could act extortion and the worst of crimes.
--Cowper. To perform, as an actor; to represent dramatically on the stage.
To assume the office or character of; to play; to personate; as, to act the hero.
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To feign or counterfeit; to simulate.
With acted fear the villain thus pursued.
--Dryden.To act a part, to sustain the part of one of the characters in a play; hence, to simulate; to dissemble.
To act the part of, to take the character of; to fulfill the duties of.
Acting \Act"ing\, a.
Operating in any way.
Doing duty for another; officiating; as, an acting superintendent. [1913 Webster] ||
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "putting forth activity," present participle adjective from act (v.). Meaning "performing temporary duties" is from 1797.
c.1600, "performance of deeds;" 1660s, "performance of plays;" verbal noun from present participle of act (v.). Acting out in psychology is from 1945.\n\n\n
Wiktionary
temporarily assume the duty or authority of another person when they are unable to do their jo
n. 1 An intended action or deed. 2 pretending. 3 (context drama English) The occupation of an actor. 4 (context legal English) The deeds or actions of parties are called actings to avoid confusion with the legal senses of deeds and actions. vb. (present participle of act English)
WordNet
adj. serving temporarily especially as a substitute; "the acting president" [syn: acting(a)]
n. the performance of a part or role in a drama [syn: playing, playacting, performing]
Wikipedia
Acting is the work of an actor or actress, which is a person in theatre, television, film, or any other storytelling medium who tells the story by portraying a character and usually, speaking or singing the written text or play.
Most early sources in the West that examine the art of acting (, hypokrisis) discuss it as part of rhetoric.
In law, when someone is said to be acting in a position it can mean one of three things.
- The position has not yet been formally created.
- The person is only occupying the position temporarily, to ensure continuity.
- The person does not have a mandate.
The term "acting" is often used in one of these senses to refer to a temporary occupant of an office in government. An "acting" official holds office to ensure both the stability and continuity of his department will continue despite the absence of a formal leader.
For example, if the U.S. Secretary of Defense died suddenly in office, the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense would take over. However, he/she would only be "acting" in the position, as he/she will not formally hold the office unless he/she is nominated by the President and confirmed by the United States Senate, as required by the Constitution.
Acting officials typically play a caretaker role, as it is usually considered questionable for someone to exercise full authority in a very activist way without having been specifically hired or elected to the office.
"Acting for" has the same basic meaning as "acting", except it indicates that the original occupant of the position still formally holds power.
For example, in 2006 when Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had a severe stroke, Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert assumed power on the basis that he was "acting for" the incapacitated Sharon. Sharon was still formally the nation's leader, as he had not died or resigned, but Olmert was executing the powers of the office.
An acting rank is a military designation allowing a commissioned or non-commissioned officer to assume a rank—usually higher and usually temporary—with the pay and allowances appropriate to that grade. As such, an officer may be ordered back to the previous grade. This situation may arise when a lower-ranking officer is called upon to replace a senior officer, or fill a position higher than the current rank held.
Usage examples of "acting".
Yet during abreaction at one point she was acting out holding the knife and doing the slashing.
Or can we, by examining his case with intelligence and with charity, and then by acting with charity too, begin to help all abused children, including his own, to free themselves from the burden of their childhood?
Matter, by the faculties of the Soul that operate and by the nature of their operation, whether seeing, acting, or merely admitting impression.
Ward refrained from shewing this letter to the alienists, they did not refrain from acting upon it themselves.
In minute doses Blood-root is a valuable alterative, acting upon the biliary secretion and improving the circulation and digestion.
Not only is it an alterative and a nutritive restorative, acting upon the secretions, but it opposes putrefaction and degenerative decay of the fluids and solids.
She informed me that it had been decided that the sister of the House of Martha who had been acting as my amanuensis should not continue in that position, but should now devote herself to another class of work.
Already got my marching orders from the Acting Chief: back to Amygdaloid ASAP.
She is acting by me like an angel, and if she were to command me to turn anchoret, I know I ought to obey her.
I was hesitant to beg the Venediger for help, so I had to do something myself to get the aquamanile back, and since everyone kept telling me I was a Guardian, I figured I might as well start acting like one.
We see the influence of the nature of different substances in bits of meat, albumen, and fresh gluten acting very differently from equalsized bits of gelatine, areolar tissue, and the fibrous basis of bone.
She was scarcely out of the room before I was in despair at not having followed the inclination of my nature, and, astonished at the fact that Bettina could do to me all she was in the habit of doing without feeling any excitement from it, while I could hardly refrain from pushing my attacks further, I would every day determine to change my way of acting.
Ortho Bob stopped by with Weed Atman, both of them acting chirpy for the first time DL could remember.
As little formidable were the denunciations of the emperor, who had, by a decree of the Aulic council, communicated to the diet certain mandates, issued in the month of August in the preceding year, on pain of the ban of the empire, with avocatory letters annexed against the king of Great Britain, elector of Hanover, and the other princes acting in concert with the king of Prussia.
Soul acting to the purposes of nature and within its appointed order, all this is Real-Being: anything else is alien, no act of the Soul, but merely something that happens to it: a parallel may be found in false mentation, notions behind which there is no reality as there is in the case of authentic ideas, the eternal, the strictly defined, in which there is at once an act of true knowing, a truly knowable object and authentic existence--and this not merely in the Absolute, but also in the particular being that is occupied by the authentically knowable and by the Intellectual-Principle manifest in every several form.