Meaning of ACTING
| Pronunciation: | | 'akting
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| | Definition: | | [n] the performance of a part or role in a drama |
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| | 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 | |
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| | Definition: | | Acting
For actors by an actor of rare subtlety and imagination; for dierctors by a brilliant versatile director. Richard Boleslavsky`s knowledge of the theatre was based on wide experience. A member of the Moscow Art Theatre and director of its First Studio, he worked in Russia, Germany and America as actor, director and teacher. On Broadway, he produced plays and muscial comedies and he was a leading Hollywood director. more details ... |
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| 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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| | 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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