noun
- Something done, a deed.
- Actuality.
- Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work.
- A product of a legislative body, a statute.
- The process of doing something.
- A formal or official record of something done.
- A division of a theatrical performance.
- A performer or performers in a show.
- Any organized activity.
- A display of behaviour.
- A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
- A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
Synonyms: pretense, statute, deed
verb
- To do something.
- To do (something); to perform.
- To perform a theatrical role.
- Of a play: to be acted out (well or badly).
- To behave in a certain manner for an indefinite length of time.
- To convey an appearance of being.
- To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
- (construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
- To play (a role).
- To feign.
- (construed with on or upon, of a group) To map via a homomorphism to a group of automorphisms (of).
- To move to action; to actuate; to animate.
Pronunciation
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