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.

   The CEO is currently in a hospital. The CFO is acting CEO in the meantime.

Related terms

• cis-acting
• nonacting
• self-acting
• unacting

 

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
• Japanese: 代理の (ja) (だいりの, dairi-no)
• Malayalam: ബദലായ (badalāya)
• Maori: taupua
• 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 and gerund of act

Noun

acting (countable and uncountable, plural actings)

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

     […] 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”, in et al., London: E. Nutt, page 10:

     […] I desire this Account may pass with them, rather for a Direction to themselves to act by, than a History of my actings, seeing it may not be of one farthing value to them to note what became of me.

   • 1974, J. R. Jacob, “Robert Boyle and Subversive Religion in the Early Restoration”, in Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, volume 6, number 4, →JSTOR, page 276:

     Boyle’s theory explains the whole range of God’s actings in the world, those things that injure man as well as those which advantage him.

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

Derived terms

• shadow acting

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
• Korean: 연기(演技) (ko) (yeon'gi)
• Kyrgyz: оюнчулук (oyunculuk)
• Latin: histriōnia f
• Macedonian: глума f (gluma)
• 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

• Tangic

Chinese

Etymology

From English acting.

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ek¹ ting²

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: ek¹ ting²
    • Yale: ēk tíng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ek⁷ ting²
    • Guangdong Romanization: ég¹ ting²
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /ɛːk̚⁵ tʰɪŋ³⁵/

Verb

acting

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, intransitive, also rarely transitive) to act up; to temporarily assume duties or authorities of another person when they are unable to do their job