Acting is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ACTING in dictionary:

VERB:
• take action according to or in the light of
• take action in order to bring about
• represent (someone) on a contractual, legal, or paid basis
• be motivated by
• behave so as to appear to be; pretend to be
• perform a narrative as if it were a play
• express repressed emotion or impulses in overt behaviour as a defensive substitute for conscious recall, typical of some behavioural disorders.
• take action; do something
• behave in the way specified
• fulfil the function or serve the purpose of
• take effect; have a particular effect
• perform a role in a play, film, or television
• a New Testament book immediately following the Gospels and relating the history of the early Church.
• a particular type of behaviour or routine
• a document attesting a legal transaction.
• the recorded decisions or proceedings of a committee or an academic body.
• a set performance
• a performing group
• a thing done; a deed
• a pretence
• a written law passed by Parliament, Congress, etc.
• a main division of a play, ballet, or opera
• advance corporation tax.
• Australian Capital Territory.
NOUN:
• the occupation of an actor
• art of an actor
• the performance of a part or role in a drama
ADJECTIVE:
• Operating in any way.
• Doing duty for another; officiating; as, an acting superintendent.
• serving temporarily especially as a substitute
• temporarily performing the duties of
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to do something

Words related to ACTING

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Words that contain ACTING

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How to use ACTING in a sentence

• I had been acting very reserved heretofore, but when he made this flash he commenced to look like a very dear friend of mine who had been very kind to me in moments of adversity.
• In acting for my own interest in this matter I, of course, act for the interest of all.
• He was acting as the guide of four British officers through a part of the forest.
• Robertson commanded in the fort, Sevier acting as his lieutenant.
• That the man was acting against his will, was as evident.
• He could be stiff enough with those who he thought were acting a part, or pretending to more than they could perform.
• In this, I am acting as your friend and protector, and so is Government, who do not wish to be severe upon you, as you are not a natural subject.
• On the one hand, the impostor had to guard against acting in any way which would throw suspicion on his being really Smerdis, the son of Cyrus.
• Our followers of the Bolsheviki, taught by a very clever propaganda, seem to be acting upon that maxim.
• The average quality of the acting on the Australian boards is by no means good.
• He was very generous, and would, long before his death, have given up acting on the stage, were it not for his companions whose subsistence depended upon his appearance with them.
• I know that no power on earth, acting as I ought to do, can touch my life, my liberty, or my property.
• Her necessity is to see herself acting as a responsible and useful factor in an intelligent plan.
• We do not belong to the past generation, but to the acting, working, living present.
• How foolishly he had been acting, and how painful to her must have been his extravagant joy at seeing her.
• I have a real satisfaction in acting it, which is more than I can say for anything else I have yet had to do.
• As we see him acting so many roles, we may well wonder what the character of the man really was.
• Such acting as theirs cast a spell over all who see them.
• In many cases the applause given was not so much for the acting as for the beauty of your translation.
• Ange de Bellerive was acting as governor of the Illinois Territory, and waiting at Fort Chartres for the British to take possession after the conquest.
• They were entertained and well treated at the seat of government, and there, with Knox acting for the United States, they made a treaty which involved concessions on both sides.
• Yet her beauty, her acting, even her movement, were characteristic, and their character was noble melancholy.
• You are acting from a mistaken sense of duty, and I am more sorry every day that you can commit such an error.
• It is the individual as a part of a group, acting in connection with it, that makes the situation a moral one.
• The acting manager will telephone to him after each act.
• Still to reproduce that phase of it with which he was so intimately concerned, as chairman of the Acting Committee of the Vigilance Committee of Philadelphia.
• Eyrecourt had held her place in society, acting under an intensely selfish sense of her own interests, fortified by those cunning instincts which grow best in a barren intellect.

Similar words containing ACT without suffix ing

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