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▸ noun: (countable) An instance of a certain standardized college admissions test in the United States, originally called the American College Test.
▸ noun: (countable) Something done, a deed.
▸ noun: (obsolete, uncountable) Actuality.
▸ noun: (theology) Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work.
▸ noun: (law, countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
▸ noun: The process of doing something.
▸ noun: (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
▸ noun: (countable, drama) A division of a theatrical performance.
▸ noun: (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
▸ noun: (countable) Any organized activity.
▸ noun: (countable) A display of behaviour.
▸ noun: (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
▸ noun: A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To do something.
▸ verb: (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
▸ verb: (intransitive) Of a play: to be acted out (well or badly).
▸ verb: (intransitive) To behave in a certain manner for an indefinite length of time.
▸ verb: (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
▸ verb: (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
▸ verb: (transitive) To play (a role).
▸ verb: (transitive) To feign.
▸ verb: (intransitive, law) To carry out work as a legal representative in relation to a particular legal matter.
▸ verb: (intransitive, mathematics, construed with on or upon, of an algebraic structure) To possess an action onto (some other structure). Examples include the group action of a group on a set, the action of a ring on a module by scalar multiplication, and the action of a group or algebra on a vector space via a representation.
▸ verb: (obsolete, transitive) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.
▸ verb: (obsolete, Scotland, transitive) To enact; to decree.
▸ noun: Initialism of Australian Capital Territory, a federal territory of Australia. [A federal territory which is an enclave in southern New South Wales, south-eastern Australia, in which the country's capital, Canberra, is located.]
▸ noun: Initialism of American College Test.
▸ noun: Initialism of Association of Consumers and Taxpayers, a political party of New Zealand
▸ noun: (uncountable) Acronym of acceptance and commitment therapy. [A form of psychological therapy based on acceptance and mindfulness strategies.]
▸ noun: (law) Ellipsis of act of parliament. [A law which has received assent (royal, presidential or gubernatorial) after having been passed by the houses (or house) of a parliament.]
▸ adverb: (text messaging) Clipping of actually. [(modal) In act or in fact; really; in truth; positively.]
▸ noun: Ellipsis of Act of Parliament.
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