"actlike" meaning in All languages combined

See actlike on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Forms: more actlike [comparative], most actlike [superlative]
Etymology: Etymology tree Latin agō Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Latin -tus Latin āctus Latin ācta Old French actbor. Middle English acte English act Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English actlike From act + -like. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:af|act|-like|text=+|tree=1}} Etymology tree Latin agō Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Latin -tus Latin āctus Latin ācta Old French actbor. Middle English acte English act Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English actlike [Appendix:Glossary#loanword|Borrowed]] from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "acts", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "made", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "act", "children" : [ ], "status" : "missing", "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "agō", "lang" : "la" }, { "id" : "past participle", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "verbal adjectives", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "verbal adjectives", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*-tós", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Italic", "term" : "*-tos", "lang" : "itc-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "-tus", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "āctus", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "keyword" : "from" } ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Latin", "term" : "ācta", "lang" : "la" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Old French", "term" : "act", "status" : "inline", "lang" : "fro" } ], "keyword" : "bor" } ], "lang_name" : "Middle English", "term" : "acte", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "enm" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "act", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }, { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "id" : "adjectival", "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "der.", "keyword_label" : "Derived from", "terms" : [ { "children" : [ { "keyword_abbrev" : "der.", "keyword_label" : "Derived from", "terms" : [ { "id" : "like", "children" : [ ], "status" : "ok", "lang_name" : "Proto-Indo-European", "term" : "*leyg-", "lang" : "ine-pro" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Germanic", "term" : "*līką", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "gem-pro" } ], "keyword" : "derived" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-Germanic", "term" : "*-līkaz", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "gem-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Proto-West Germanic", "term" : "*-līk", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "gmw-pro" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "Old English", "term" : "-līċ", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "ang" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "status" : "inline", "lang_name" : "Middle English", "term" : "-like", "lang" : "enm" } ], "keyword_label" : "Inherited from", "keyword" : "inherited" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "-like", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" } ], "keyword_label" : "From", "is_group" : true, "keyword" : "affix" } ], "lang_name" : "English", "term" : "actlike", "status" : "ok", "lang" : "en" }" data-lang="en" data-title="actlike"> From act + -like., {{ety|en|:af|act|-like|text=+|tree=1}} Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tos Latin -tus Latin āctus Latin ācta Old French actbor. Middle English acte English act Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English actlike From act + -like. Head templates: {{en-adj}} actlike (comparative more actlike, superlative most actlike)
  1. Resembling or characteristic of an act or performance.
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        "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂eǵ- (drive)",
        "English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *leyg- (like)",
        "English terms suffixed with -like",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages using etymon with no ID",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Pages with etymology trees",
        "Pages with etymon"
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      "examples": [
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          "ref": "2005, Sex, Self, and Society, page 339:",
          "text": "For those of you who still think pornography is only an idea, consider the possibility that obscenity law got one thing right. Pornography is more actlike than thoughtlike.",
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          "ref": "2006, Neil Leach, Camouflage, page 172:",
          "text": "Performativity is thus not a singular ‘act,’ for it is always a reiteration of a norm or set of norms, and to the extent that it acquires an actlike status in the present, it conceals and dissimulates the conventions of which it is a repetition.",
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          "ref": "2008, Laurence Siegel, Instruction: Some Contemporary Viewpoints, page 135:",
          "text": "Second, behavior (especially pupil behavior) may be coded in noncontent and nonmode terms provided only that actlike boundaries are established for coding purposes by reference to other boundaries in the system.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Resembling or characteristic of an act or performance."
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      "links": [
        [
          "act",
          "act"
        ],
        [
          "performance",
          "performance"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "actlike"
}

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