Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of act is as below...

Cataract :: Cataract (n.) A kind of hydraulic brake for regulating the action of pumping engines and other machines; -- sometimes called dashpot.

Recalcitration :: Recalcitration (n.) A kicking back again; opposition; repugnance; refractoriness.

Job :: "Job (n.) A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business..

Polysyndetic :: Polysyndetic (a.) Characterized by polysyndeton, or the multiplication of conjunctions..

Feeling :: Feeling (n.) An act or state of perception by the sense above described; an act of apprehending any object whatever; an act or state of apprehending the state of the soul itself; consciousness.

Tropical :: Tropical (n.) Rhetorically changed from its exact original sense; being of the nature of a trope; figurative; metaphorical.

Bloom :: Bloom (n.) The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc. Hence: Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness; a flush; a glow..

Transact :: Transact (v. t.) To carry through; to do; perform; to manage; as, to transact commercial business; to transact business by an agent..

Reduction :: Reduction (v. t.) The operation of restoring a dislocated or fractured part to its former place.

Contrivance :: Contrivance (n.) The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning..

Draught :: Draught (n.) The act of moving loads by drawing, as by beasts of burden, and the like..

Deoxygenation :: Deoxygenation (n.) The act or operation of depriving of oxygen.

Catalysis :: Catalysis (n.) A process by which reaction occurs in the presence of certain agents which were formerly believed to exert an influence by mere contact. It is now believed that such reactions are attended with the formation of an intermediate compound or compounds, so that by alternate composition and decomposition the agent is apparenty left unchanged; as, the catalysis of making ether from alcohol by means of sulphuric acid; or catalysis in the action of soluble ferments (as diastase, or ptyali

Incarceration :: Incarceration (n.) The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment..

Legislative :: Legislative (a.) Making, or having the power to make, a law or laws; lawmaking; -- distinguished from executive; as, a legislative act; a legislative body..

Appellation :: Appellation (n.) The act of calling by a name.

Guard :: Guard (n.) To keep watch over, in order to prevent escape or restrain from acts of violence, or the like..

Mortification :: Mortification (n.) The act of mortifying, or the condition of being mortified.

Bagman :: Bagman (n.) A commercial traveler; one employed to solicit orders for manufacturers and tradesmen.

Besprinkling :: Besprinkling (n.) The act of sprinkling anything; a sprinkling over.

Random Fonts

Most Popular