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    Definition of acts in English Dictionary

  • NounBFact
    1. plural of act.
    2. VerbBFactPRactingPT, PPacted
      1. third-person singular simple present indicative form of act.
      2. More Examples
        1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
          • For example, Coventry twinned with Dresden as an act of peace and reconciliation, both cities having been heavily bombed during the war.
          • God was now nothing more than a distant cause of causes; what mattered was matter, and man acting in nature. The theodicy, the master-narrative, had become secularized.
          • She really read him the riot act about his smoking habit.
        2. Used in the Beginning of Sentence
          • Act your age and stop fiddling with that pen - you’re showing us up.
        3. Used in the Ending of Sentence
          • She denied it but she had been spotted in the act.
          • The theme of the prodigal son recurs later in the third act.
          • Earlier the gentleman from California (Mr. Cardoza) got up on the floor, and he was upset that somebody had said that the underlying bill would eviscerate the Endangered Species Act.
      • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
        1. Nouns
          • Noun forms
            • Noun plural forms
          • Verbs
            • Verb forms
              • Verb singular forms
                • Third-person singular forms
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          1. en acts up
          2. en acts out
          3. en acts of God
          4. en acts of independent significance
          Source: Wiktionary

          Meaning of acts for the defined word.

          Grammatically, this word "acts" is a noun, more specifically, a noun form. It's also a verb, more specifically, a verb form.
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