(n.) That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.
(n.) The result of public deliberation; the decision or determination of a legislative body, council, court of justice, etc.; a decree, edit, law, judgment, resolve, award; as, an act of Parliament, or of Congress.
(n.) A formal solemn writing, expressing that something has been done.
(n.) A performance of part of a play; one of the principal divisions of a play or dramatic work in which a certain definite part of the action is completed.
(n.) A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
(n.) A state of reality or real existence as opposed to a possibility or possible existence.
(n.) Process of doing; action. In act, in the very doing; on the point of (doing).
(v. t.) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.
(v. t.) To perform; to execute; to do.
(v. t.) To perform, as an actor; to represent dramatically on the stage.
(v. t.) To assume the office or character of; to play; to personate; as, to act the hero.
(v. t.) To feign or counterfeit; to simulate.
(v. i.) To exert power; to produce an effect; as, the stomach acts upon food.
(v. i.) To perform actions; to fulfill functions; to put forth energy; to move, as opposed to remaining at rest; to carry into effect a determination of the will.
(v. i.) To behave or conduct, as in morals, private duties, or public offices; to bear or deport one's self; as, we know not why he has acted so.
(v. i.) To perform on the stage; to represent a character.
Example Sentences:
(1) The high amino acid levels in the cells suggest that these cells act as inter-organ transporters and reservoirs of amino acids, they have a different role in their handling and metabolism from those of mammals.
(2) Although Jeggo's Chinese hamster ovary cells were more responsive to mAMSA, novo still abrogated mAMSA toxicity in the mutant cells as well as in the parental Chinese hamster ovary cells 2,4-Dinitrophenol acted similarly to novo with respect to mAMSA killing, but neither compound reduced the ATP content of V79 cells.
(3) administration of the potent short-acting opioid, fentanyl, elicited inhibition of rhythmic spontaneous reflex increases in vesical pressure (VP) evoked by urinary bladder distension.
(4) Family therapists have attempted to convert the acting-out behavioral disorders into an effective state, i.e., make the family aware of their feelings of deprivation by focusing on the aggressive component.
(5) It is suggested that the rapid phase is due to clearance of peptides in the circulation which results in a fall to lower blood concentrations which are sustained by slow release of peptide from binding sites which act as a depot.
(6) Peptides from this region bind to actin, act as mixed inhibitors of the actin-stimulated S1 Mg2(+)-ATPase, and influence the contractile force developed in skinned fibres, whereas peptides flanking this sequence are without effect in our test systems.
(7) Comprehensive regulations are being developed to limit human exposure to contamination in drinking water by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under the authority of the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA).
(8) Pedigree studies have suggested that there may be an inherited predisposition to many apparently nonfamilial colorectal cancers and a genetic model of tumorigenesis in common colorectal cancer has been proposed that includes the activation of dominantly acting oncogenes and the inactivation of growth suppressor genes.
(9) Propofol is ideal for short periods of care on the ICU, and during weaning when longer acting agents are being eliminated.
(10) We have investigated interactions between the erythroid transcription factor GATA-1 and factors binding two cis-acting elements commonly linked to GATA sites in erythroid control elements.
(11) These later results suggest that dopamine agonists increase sensorimotor reactivity measured with acoustic startle by acting on sensory rather than motor parts of the reflex arc.
(12) Dietary factors affect intestinal P450s markedly--iron restriction rapidly decreased intestinal P450 to beneath detectable values; selenium deficiency acted similarly but was less effective; Brussels sprouts increased intestinal AHH activity 9.8-fold, ECOD activity 3.2-fold, and P450 1.9-fold; fried meat and dietary fat significantly increased intestinal EROD activity; a vitamin A-deficient diet increased, and a vitamin A-rich diet decreased intestinal P450 activities; and excess cholesterol in the diet increased intestinal P450 activity.
(13) It was not clear whether Mn2+ acted at the presynaptic membrane, the postsynaptic membrane or both.
(14) She added: “We will continue to act upon the overwhelming majority view of our shareholders.” The vote was the second year running Ryanair had suffered a rebellion on pay.
(15) In this paper sensitive and selective bioassays are described for growth factors acting on substrate-attached cells, in particular members of the epidermal growth factor, transforming growth factor beta, platelet-derived growth factor, insulin-like growth factor, and heparin-binding growth factor families.
(16) Evidence is presented that the protein can act catalytically.
(17) It was concluded that Ta acts as a weak zeitgeber in laboratory rats and has greater effects on males compared to females.
(18) That’s a criticism echoed by Democrats in the Senate, who issued a report earlier this month criticising Republicans for passing sweeping legislation in July to combat addiction , the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (Cara), but refusing to fund it.
(19) Tumorigenesis is a multistep process involving mutations of dominantly acting proto-oncogenes and mutations and loss-of-function mutations of tumor suppressor genes.
(20) In one of Pruitt’s first official acts, for example, he overruled the recommendation of his own agency’s scientists, based on years of meticulous research, to ban a pesticide shown to cause nerve damage, one that poses a clear risk to children, farmworkers and rural drinking water supplies.
Charade
Definition:
(n.) A verbal or acted enigma based upon a word which has two or more significant syllables or parts, each of which, as well as the word itself, is to be guessed from the descriptions or representations.
Example Sentences:
(1) When we arrived, he would instruct us to spend the morning composing a song or a poem, or inventing a joke or a charade.
(2) He was a lateral and fearless thinker for whom the presentation of ideas was like a game of intellectual charades, with a few clues as to the meaning of the work thrown in every now and again.
(3) Ranieri's dismissal doubtless came as a relief to him, ending a charade that saw him summoned to two meetings with Chelsea's chief executive Peter Kenyon over the past week at which he was asked to discuss his future plans for the club.
(4) Trimming, triangulating, sneaking small policy advantages and wallowing in the narcissism of small differences, the parties seemed locked in a distant and disreputable Westminster charade.
(5) The recent parliamentary elections, widely dismissed as a charade, tend to confirm US views.
(6) Ernest Hemingway is the key performer in this charade, his characterisation of Stein as “a woman who isn’t a woman” a crude mirroring of his own gender fears.
(7) She decided to carry on with the charade and answer real questions about policy during the debate.
(8) By the end of the 1960s he had a considerable reputation as a novelist (his first, Charade, drawing on his Crown Film Unit experience, and unrelated to the movie, appeared in 1947) and playwright, and had played an important role in the abolition of the death penalty and the passage of the Theatres Act, which saw off that bane of the British stage, the Lord Chamberlain's power of censorship – not that his own work had ever been in danger from this quarter.
(9) Do not use our music or my voice for your 1) September 9, 2015 Mike Mills (@m_millsey) ...moronic charade of a campaign."
(10) The judge told Gray that her dependence on Butler was so deep that she was prepared to do anything for him, including participating in the “grotesque charade” of a 999 call two hours after Ellie was murdered.
(11) At all events, we are back to the old days of appointments not applications, and a lot of distinguished candidates have been the victims of what became a complete charade.
(12) One of those on the previous committee confided that the entire procedure was a charade, but a good networking opportunity.
(13) Scrutiny of EU measures Parliamentary proceedings are increasingly "becoming a charade" because of the amount of EU measures parliament has to pass unamended, Tory ex-chancellor Lord Lamont complained, saying: "Fifty percent of all major British legislation starts in the EU".
(14) Rights groups have accused Sisi’s regime of using the judiciary as a tool to oppress opposition, with Amnesty International denouncing the death sentence as “a charade based on null and void procedures”.
(15) The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics.
(16) Shaker might wonder out loud why Britain went along with President Bush’s deadly charade.
(17) Egypt has pardoned and released two al-Jazeera journalists who had been jailed for disseminating “false news” in a trial widely criticised as a political charade by human rights groups and international observers.
(18) "Now it appears that the entire process was a charade.
(19) He concluded by saying: “This unhappy sequence of events drives me to the conclusion either that Mr Kovtun never in truth intended to give evidence and that this has been a charade.
(20) Mousavi said this morning: "I personally strongly protest the many obvious violations and I'm warning I will not surrender to this dangerous charade.