acting
ak ting
- n the performance of a part or role in a drama
- v perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)
- v behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself
- v play a role or part
- v discharge one's duties
In what capacity are you acting? - v pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind
- v be suitable for theatrical performance
- v have an effect or outcome; often the one desired or expected
- v be engaged in an activity, often for no particular purpose other than pleasure
- v behave unnaturally or affectedly
She's just acting - v perform on a stage or theater
- s serving temporarily especially as a substitute
the acting president
- Lane downplays this acting feat.
- Some were actors who wanted to go for an acting career, like me, and settled for this because acting was just a murderously difficult thing to get into.
- Who was the evil agent, and who was acting under "the compulsion of circumstances?" My entirely conventional impulse would be to go easy on Andrea Yates as one acting under the .