Words that Rhyme with act
1 Syllable Words
backed, blacked, bracht, cracked, fact, hacked, jacked, kracht, lacked, packed, pact, pracht, racked, sacked, schacht, slacked, smacked, stacked, tacked, tact, tracht, tracked, tract, whacked, wracked
2 Syllable Words
abstract, attacked, attract, backtracked, carjacked, compact, contact, contract, detract, diffract, distract, enact, exact, extract, hijacked, impact, intact, medfact, protract, ransacked, react, redact, repacked, retract, sidetracked, subtract, transact, unpacked
3 Syllable Words
artifact, autofact, counteract, inexact, interact, noncontract, overact, piggybacked, reenact, subcontract
4 Syllable Words
counterattacked, enviropact, overreact
Definitions of act
n. That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.
n. 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.
n. A formal solemn writing, expressing that something has been done.
n. 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.
n. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
n. A state of reality or real existence as opposed to a possibility or possible existence.
n. Process of doing; action. In act, in the very doing; on the point of (doing).
v. t. To move to action; to actuate; to animate.
v. t. To perform; to execute; to do.
v. t. To perform, as an actor; to represent dramatically on the stage.
v. t. To assume the office or character of; to play; to personate; as, to act the hero.
v. t. To feign or counterfeit; to simulate.
v. i. To exert power; to produce an effect; as, the stomach acts upon food.
v. i. To perform actions; to fulfill functions; to put forth energy; to move, as opposed to remaining at rest; to carry into effect a determination of the will.
v. i. To behave or conduct, as in morals, private duties, or public offices; to bear or deport one's self; as, we know not why he has acted so.
v. i. To perform on the stage; to represent a character.