act

About 155.78 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. symbol ISO 639-3 language code for Achterhooks.
2. noun Something done, a deed.

   an act of goodwill

3. noun Actuality.
4. noun Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work.
5. noun A product of a legislative body, a statute.
6. noun (In the United States) A legislative proposal, a bill that has not yet become law.
7. noun The process of doing something.

   He was caught in the act of stealing.

8. noun A formal or official record of something done.

Similar words

work number process operation represent enactment behave routine move playact

Often followed by

of as in to and was on is for

Word family

ACT Act Acts actabilities actability actable acted acting acts put on an act