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Forms

1.An instance of a certain standardized college admissions test in the United States, originally called the American College Test.
- All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
2.Something done, a deed.
- That best portion of a good man's life, / His little, nameless, unremembered acts / Of kindness and of love.
3.Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work.
- All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
4.A product of a legislative body, a statute.
- All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

1.To do something.
- If you don’t act soon, you will be in trouble.
2.To perform a theatrical role.
- I started acting at the age of eleven in my local theatre.
3.To behave in a certain manner for an indefinite length of time.
- A dog which acts aggressively is likely to bite.
- I believe that Bill’s stuck-up because of the way that he acts.
- He’s acting strangely. I think there’s something wrong with him.
4.Of a play: to be acted out (well or badly).
- But whatever types he assumes, the need to have a good play which acts delightfully well before the audience, and to their delectation, is the dominant thrust. If the play acts well, the director gets the credits.

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Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-

Proto-Indo-European *-eti

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti

Proto-Italic *agō

Latin agō

Latin ācta

Old French actbor.

Middle English acte

English act