acting

English

Etymology

From the verb act.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈæk.tɪŋ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -æktɪŋ

Adjective

acting (not comparable)

1. Temporarily assuming the duties or authority of another person when they are unable to do their job.

   The Acting Minister must sign Executive Council documents in a Minister's absence.

   Acting President of the United States is a temporary office in the government of the United States.

Translations

temporarily assuming the duties or authority

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 代理 (zh) (dàilǐ), 代- (zh) (dài-)

• Esperanto: portempa
• Finnish: väliaikainen (fi), virkaa toimittava
• French: intérimaire (fr), par intérim (fr)
• Georgian: მოვალეობის შემსრულებელი (movaleobis šemsrulebeli), მოვალეობების შემსრულებელი (movaleobebis šemsrulebeli), მოქმედი (mokmedi)
• German: amtierend (de), stellvertretend (de), geschäftsführend (de)
• Gujarati: કાર્યકારી (kāryakārī)
• Irish: gníomhach
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Japanese: 代理の (ja) (だいりの, dairi-no)
• Malayalam: ബദലായ (badalāya)
• Polish: p.o. (pl), pełniący obowiązki m, pełniąca obowiązki f
• Portuguese: interino (pt), temporário (pt)
• Russian: исполня́ющий обя́занности m (ispolnjájuščij objázannosti), и.о. (i.o.), ври́о (ru) m or f (vrío)
• Serbo-Croatian: вршилац дужности m (vršilac dužnosti)
• Slovak: úradujúci
• Spanish: interino (es), en funciones, suplente
• Swedish: tillförordnad, tf, ställföreträdande (sv), stf (sv)
• Thai: รักษาการ (th) (rák-sǎa-gaan)
• Ukrainian: виконувач обов'язків m (vykonuvač obovʺjazkiv)

See also

• pro tem

Verb

acting

1. present participle of act

Noun

acting (countable and uncountable, plural actings)

1. (countable, obsolete) An action or deed.
   • 1685, Herbert Croft, Some Animadversions upon a book intituled, The Theory of the Earth, London, Preface,^[1]

     […] he does so much magnifie Nature and her Actings in all this material World, as he gives just cause of suspicion that he hath made her a kind of joynt Deess with God in the Affairs thereof;

   • 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt et al., p. 10,^[2]

     […] I desire this Account may pass with them, rather for a Direction to themselves to act by, than a History of my actings,

2. (law) Something done by a party — so called to avoid confusion with the legal senses of deed and action.
3. Pretending.
4. (drama) The occupation of an actor.

Translations

occupation of an actor

• Arabic: تَمْثِيل m (tamṯīl)
• Armenian: դերասանություն (hy) (derasanutʻyun)
• Catalan: actuació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 演技 (zh) (yǎnjì)

• Esperanto: aktorado
• Finnish: näytteleminen (fi)
• German: Schauspielkunst (de) f
• Greek:

  Ancient: ὑπόκρισις f (hupókrisis)

• Hungarian: színjátszás (hu), színészi játék, alakítás (hu)
• Indonesian: akting (id)
• Irish: aisteoireacht f
• Japanese: 演技 (ja) (えんぎ, engi)
• Kapampangan: pamagarti, pamagarte
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: 연기(演技) (ko) (yeon'gi)
• Kyrgyz: оюнчулук (oyunculuk)
• Latin: histriōnia f
• Malayalam: അഭിനയം (ml) (abhinayaṁ)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: بازیگری (fa) (bâzigari)
• Polish: aktorstwo (pl) n, aktorszczyzna f (derogatory)
• Portuguese: atuação (pt), encenação
• Romanian: actorie (ro) f
• Russian: актёрство (ru) n (aktjórstvo), актёрское иску́сство n (aktjórskoje iskússtvo)
• Slovene: igranje n
• Spanish: actuación (es)
• Swedish: skådespeleri (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: oyunculuk (tr)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

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