Words starting with act

Words and definitions

Act means: That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

Act means: 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.

Act means: A formal solemn writing, expressing that something has been done.

Act means: 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.

Act means: A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.

Act means: A state of reality or real existence as opposed to a possibility or possible existence.

Act means: Process of doing; action. In act, in the very doing; on the point of (doing).

Acted means: of Act

Acting means: of Act

Act means: To move to action; to actuate; to animate.

Words and definitions

Zythum means: A kind of ancient malt beverage; a liquor made from malt and wheat.

Zythepsary means: A brewery.

Zythem means: See Zythum.

Zymotic means: Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases. See Zymotic disease, below.

Zymotic means: Of, pertaining to, or caused by, fermentation.

Zymosis means: A zymotic disease.

Zymosis means: A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.

Zymose means: Invertin.

Zymophyte means: A bacteroid ferment.

Zymosimeter means: An instrument for ascertaining the degree of fermentation occasioned by the mixture of different liquids, and the degree of heat which they acquire in fermentation.