act

/akt/

US pronunciation

American sound/akt/

act

Syllables: 1 syllable
Stress: One strong syllable
Vowel: IPA vowel pattern
Ending: Clear final sound

US voice -> act

Myanmar meaning

(n) လုပ်ရပ်။ ဖျော်ဖြေတင်ဆက်မှု။ (ပြဇာတ်) အခန်း။ ဥပဒေ။ အက်ဥပဒေ။ ဟန်ဆောင်မှု။ (v) လုပ်သည်။ အရေးယူသည်။ အရေးယူ ဆောင်ရွက်သည်။ သရုပ်ဆောင်သည်။ ဟန်ဆောင်သည်။ နေ(ပြ)သည်။ (v[sg]) လုပ်

Full entry

act /ækt / n

၁။ လုပ်ရပ်။ an act of kindness/a kind act to help a blind man across the street ❍ an act of violence/terrorism ❍ This horrific murder is surely the act of a madman.
၂။ ဖျော်ဖြေတင်ဆက်မှု။ a circus act ❍ a song and dance act.
၃။ (ပြဇာတ်) အခန်း။ a play in five acts ❍ The hero dies in Act 4, Scene 3.
၄။ ဥပဒေ။ အက်ဥပဒေ။
၅။ (usu sing ) (infml ) ဟန်ဆောင်မှု။ Don't take her seriously — it's all an act. ❍ She's just putting on an act (ie only pretending). PRETENCE
v
၁။ (က) လုပ်သည်။ The time for talking is past: we must act at once. ❍ You acted (ie behaved) wisely by/in ignoring such bad advice. (ခ) အရေးယူသည်။ အရေးယူ ဆောင်ရွက်သည်။ The police refused to act until they had more evidence. ❍ The girl's life was saved because the doctors acted so promptly.
၂။ သရုပ်ဆောင်သည်။ Have you ever acted? ❍ She acts well. ❍ Who is acting (the part of) Hamlet?
၃။ ဟန်ဆောင်သည်။ နေ(ပြ)သည်။ He's not really angry— he's just acting (the stern father). ❍ Try to act normal!
❏ act as sb/sth [PHRV ] ဆောင်ရွက်သည်။ I don't understand their language: you'll have to act as interpreter.
❏ act for/on behalf of sb [PHRV ] ကိုယ်စား ဆောင်ရွက် သည်။ ကိုယ်စားပြုသည်။ During her illness her attorney has been acting for her in her business affairs.
❏ act of God n (law ) မမျှော်မှန်းနိုင်သော ဘေးအန္တရာယ်။ insure against all loss or damage including that caused by an act of God.
❏ act on/upon sth [PHRV ]
၁။ အရေးယူသည်။ Acting on information received, the police raided the club.
၂။ သက်ရောက်သည်။ ထိသည်။ Alcohol acts quickly on the brain.
❏ act sth out [PHRV ]
၁။ သဏ္ဌာန်လုပ်သည်။ ဟန်ဆောင် သည်။ She acted out the role of wronged lover to make him feel guilty.
၂။ ဆောင်ရွက်သည်။ The ritual of the party conference is acted out in the same way every year.
❏ act up [PHRV ] (infml ) ထသည်။ ဖောက်သည်။ ဗွေဖောက် သည်။ My sprained ankle has been acting up all week. ❍ The car's acting up again. ❍ The kids have started acting up.
❏ be/get in on the act [IDM ] ပါ(ချင်)လာသည်။ She has made a lot of money from the business and now her family want to get in on the act too.
❏ get one's act together [IDM ] (infml ) ကိုယ့်ကိုယ်ကိုယ် ပြန်ထိန်းဦး။ if you want to do better at school you'll have to get your act together.
❏ in the (very) act (of doing sth) [IDM ] လုပ်ရင်း တန်းလန်း။ (တစ်စုံတစ်ရာလုပ်) ခိုက်။ (လုပ်) နေတုန်း။ I caught her in the act (of reading my letters). ❍ In the act of bending down, he slipped and hurt his back.

Synonyms

do something, take action, take steps, proceed, be active, perform, operate, work, discharge duty, accomplish, accomplishment, achieve, achievement, acquit yourself, act on behalf of, act out, action, affectation, amendment, announcement, appear, appear on behalf of, attitude, be in, be on, begin, behave, bill, bit, bring down the house, burlesque, carry, carry on, carry oneself, carry out, characterize, chaser, clause, code, commitment, comport, comport yourself, con, conduct, conduct yourself, consummate, cook, create, curtain, decree, deed, develop, dissimilation, do, do a number, do a turn, do its stuff, do one's thing, do your stuff, doing, dramatize, edict, emote, enact, enactment, enforce, entertainment, epilogue, execute, execution, exert, exploit, fake, false front, feat, feign, feigning, feint, front, function, gag, get down to, get going, get in there, get on, give the appearance, go about, go for broke, go for it, go in for, go on, go over, go that route, go to town, ham, ham it up, hamming, impersonate, impress as, introduction, intrude, item, judgment, knock off, labor, law, lay an egg, legislative document, make debut, make progress, maneuver, measure, mime, mimic, move, mug, number, officiate, operation, order, ordinance, parody, percolate, performance, perk, perpetrate, persevere, persist, personate, personify, phony, piece, piece of legislation, play, play act, play gig, play part, play role, play-act, play-acting, ploy, portray, pose, posture, practice, preside, pretend, pretended behavior, pretense, produce a result, produce an effect, prologue, pursue, put it on, put it over, put on an act, put-on, react, rehearse, replace

Antonyms

abandon, abstain, be real, cease, cessation, defeat, destroy, direct, discontinue, disregard, end, fail, failure, follow, forego, forget, give up, halt, hesitate, idle, idleness, ignore, inaction, inactivity, inertia, leave, leave alone, lose, miss, neglect, prevent, quiet, quit, reality, refrain, refuse, repose, rest, stop, stoppage, suspension, whole