ACTING


Meaning of ACTING in English

I. adjective

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a teaching/acting/sporting career

Her acting career lasted for more than 50 years.

acting ability

Her acting abilities were obvious straightaway.

acting as agents

We’re acting as agents for Mr Watson.

acting in bad faith

In order to sue, you have to prove that the company was acting in bad faith .

acting suspiciously

He saw two youths acting suspiciously .

film/acting/directorial etc debut

His Broadway debut was ‘The Scarlet Pimpernel’.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

capacity

He had filled the post in an acting capacity since the resignation of Vitaly Masol in October.

career

His acting career went slowly but definitely downhill.

It's a back to front way of running an acting career .

It's understandable that she would want to resume her acting career after having children.

She was soon to give up her own acting career - which she never took seriously - to - spoil him?

Savouring her 1,440-vote capture of the Tory marginal, the double Oscar winner said yesterday her acting career was over.

But attention was expected to centre on Sir Anthony, currently enjoying one of the best periods of his distinguished acting career .

In the 1920s Pearson resumed his acting career but also began publishing short stories, essays, and journalism.

But during her short acting career , Brown was held in high esteem by the theatrical fraternity in Northern Ireland.

head

Non-Communist becomes acting head of state Krenz quits as unrest fears grow.

president

Octavio Lepage, the head of the Senate, is now acting president .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Mrs Hamilton has been appointed acting head of the school until a permanent replacement can be found.

While Kershaw was in the hospital Saunders became acting chairman.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

His acting successor is the authority's planning director Mr John Harrhy, brother of Gordon.

Mr. and Mrs. Dawes were the acting master and matron, and they were not universally popular.

Under acting captain Neil Fairbrother, they managed 48 overs in the 205 minutes allowed for 55 overs.

II. noun

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Gloria Reuben quit acting to join Tina Turner on stage as a backing singer and dancer.

You shouldn't take up acting as a career; it's a very risky business.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But they are guidelines to what acting is basically about.

Eventually, though, he singles out Celia Johnson's acting followed by Lean's direction.

Still only sixteen, it looked as if acting would become the career for which Crawford had hoped.

Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to paint.

The acting she did within its framework was almost right.

The chief acting honours, however, go to Jean Marsh as the tense but battle-hardened Miss Madrigal.

There is some hammy acting , but the film gives an interesting insight into the gangster scene of the Sixties.

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