act

1. act (noun) — sense 1

Definition: Something done, a deed.

Example: an act of goodwill

2. act (noun) — sense 2

Definition: Actuality.

Example: The seeds of plants are not at first in act, but in possibility, what they afterward grow to be.

3. act (noun) — sense 3

Definition: Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work.

4. act (verb) — sense 1

Definition: To do something.

Example: If you don’t act soon, you will be in trouble.

5. act (verb) — sense 2

Definition: To do (something); to perform.

Example: that we act our temporal affairs with a deſire no greater than our neceſſity

6. act (verb) — sense 3

Definition: To perform a theatrical role.

Example: I started acting at the age of eleven in my local theatre.