Meaning of ACTING
| Pronunciation: | | 'akting
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 WordNet Dictionary |
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[n] the performance of a part or role in a drama |
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ACTING is a 6 letter word that starts with A. |
| | Synonyms: | | performing, playacting, playing |
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| | See Also: | | activity, business, byplay, characterization, dumb show, enactment, hamming, heroics, impersonation, mime, overacting, pantomime, performance, personation, portrayal, roleplaying, skit, stage business | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Act"ing\, a.
1. Operating in any way.
2. Doing duty for another; officiating; as, an acting
superintendent.
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| Dream Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | Search for fame and celebrity. You feel the need to be well known, enjoy
a sparkling life, victorious and free.
Would you like to be able to play different roles, put up different masks,
enjoy the thrill of every new situation? You might need to reflect on your
own life and seek ways to make it more interesting and colourful. |
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| | Related Terms: | | act, action, active, activism, activity, ad interim, affectation, aping, appearance, at work, attitudinizing, behavior, behavioral, bluff, bluffing, buffoonery, business, characterization, cheating, color, coloring, deception, delusion, deputative, deputy, disguise, dissemblance, dissembling, dissimulation, doing, dumb show, embodiment, employment, enacting, enactment, exercise, facade, face, fakery, faking, false air, false front, false show, falsity, feigning, feint, four-flushing, fraud, front, function, functional, functioning, gag, gilt, gloss, going, going on, ham, hammy acting, hoke, hokum, humbug, humbuggery, imitation, impersonation, imposture, in exercise, in force, in hand, in operation, in play, in practice, in process, in the works, inaction, incarnation, interim, masquerade, meretriciousness, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, movements, mummery, occupation, on foot, on the fire, ongoing, operating, operation, operational, operations, ostentation, outward show, overacting, pantomime, pantomiming, patter, performance, performing, personation, personification, play, playacting, playing, portrayal, pose, posing, posture, practice, practicing, praxis, pretense, pretension, pretext, pro tem, pro tempore, projection, representation, representative, running, seeming, semblance, serving, sham, show, simulacrum, simulation, slapstick, speciousness, stage business, stage directions, stage presence, stunt, supply, swing, taking a role, varnish, window dressing, work, working, workings |
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