act 뜻

명사 (Noun)PLacts

But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge—a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.

“H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what [...] will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday […] that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth. […]”

The minute you let it be known you're planning a sales campaign everybody wants to get into the act.

동사 (Verb)SGactsPRactingPT, PPacted

(intransitive) To do something.
1. If you don't act soon, you will be in trouble.

(intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).

High-pressure oxygen acts on the central nervous system and may cause convulsions or death.
Gravitational force acts on heavy bodies.

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문장 중간에 사용됨
- We show that these groups act acylindrically on the CAT(-1) polygonal complex naturally associated to their presentation.
- Congress evidently saw the wisdom of this and dealt with the matter in the Hawaii Omnibus Act of 1960, which took care of various postadmission loose ends.
- Different drugs act on different parts of our body in many different ways.
문장의 시작에 사용됨
- Act your age and stop fiddling with that pen - you’re showing us up.
문장의 끝에서 사용
- I really got a kick out of that clown's juggling act.
- Earlier the gentleman from California (Mr. Cardoza) got up on the floor, and he was upset that somebody had said that the underlying bill would eviscerate the Endangered Species Act.
- She denied it but she had been spotted in the act.

Definition of act in English Dictionary