Definition of act

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Act (n.) A performance of part of a play; one of the principal divisions of a play or dramatic work in which a certain definite part of the action is completed.

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Clipping :: Clipping (n.) The act of cutting off, curtailing, or diminishing; the practice of clipping the edges of coins..
Ustion :: Ustion (n.) The act of burning, or the state of being burned..
Reiteration :: Reiteration (n.) The act of reiterating; that which is reiterated.
Animal :: Animal (n.) An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process of respiration; and by increasing in motive power or active aggressive force with progress to maturity..
Checkage :: Checkage (n.) The act of checking; as, the checkage of a name or of an item in a list..
Awork :: Awork (adv.) At work; in action.
Warrant :: Warrant (n.) That which warrants or authorizes; a commission giving authority, or justifying the doing of anything; an act, instrument, or obligation, by which one person authorizes another to do something which he has not otherwise a right to do; an act or instrument investing one with a right or authority, and thus securing him from loss or damage; commission; authority..
Europeanize :: Europeanize (v. t.) To cause to become like the Europeans in manners or character; to habituate or accustom to European usages.
Hibernation :: Hibernation (n.) The act or state of hibernating.
Turbine :: Turbine (n.) A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed, but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which the water acts by its impulse or reaction in flowing either outward from a central chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above downward, etc.; -- also called turbine wheel..
Espial :: Espial (n.) The act of espying; notice; discovery.
Magnesian :: Magnesian (a.) Pertaining to, characterized by, or containing, magnesia or magnesium..
Petition :: Petition (n.) A formal written request addressed to an official person, or to an organized body, having power to grant it; specifically (Law), a supplication to government, in either of its branches, for the granting of a particular grace or right; -- in distinction from a memorial, which calls certain facts to mind; also, the written document..
Island :: Island (n.) A tract of land surrounded by water, and smaller than a continent. Cf. Continent..
Burn :: Burn (v. t.) To cause to combine with oxygen or other active agent, with evolution of heat; to consume; to oxidize; as, a man burns a certain amount of carbon at each respiration; to burn iron in oxygen..
Acidification :: Acidification (n.) The act or process of acidifying, or changing into an acid..
Shoulder :: Shoulder (n.) An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timber, the part of the top of a type which projects beyond the base of the raised character, etc..
Attracted :: Attracted (imp. & p. p.) of Attrac.
Carabid :: Carabid (n.) One of the Carabidae, a family of active insectivorous beetles..
Demagogical :: Demagogical (a.) Relating to, or like, a demagogue; factious..
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