acting

From act +‎ -ing.

acting (not comparable)

temporarily assuming the duties or authority

Chinese:
Mandarin: 代理 (zh) (dàilǐ), 代- (zh) (dài-)
Esperanto: portempa
Finnish: väliaikainen (fi), virkaa toimittava
French: intérimaire (fr), par intérim (fr)
Georgian: მოვალეობის შემსრულებელი (movaleobis šemsrulebeli), მოვალეობების შემსრულებელი (movaleobebis šemsrulebeli), მოქმედი (mokmedi)
German: amtierend (de), stellvertretend (de), geschäftsführend (de)
Gujarati: કાર્યકારી (kāryakārī)
Hindi: कार्यकारी m (kāryakārī)
Irish: gníomhach
Japanese: 代理の (ja) (だいりの, dairi-no)
Malayalam: ബദലായ (badalāya)
Maori: taupua
Polish: p.o. (pl), pełniący obowiązki m, pełniąca obowiązki f
Portuguese: interino (pt), temporário (pt)
Russian: исполня́ющий обя́занности m (ispolnjájuščij objázannosti), и.о. (i.o.), ври́о (ru) m or f (vrío)
Serbo-Croatian: вршилац дужности m (vršilac dužnosti)
Slovak: úradujúci
Spanish: interino (es), en funciones, suplente
Swedish: tillförordnad, tf, ställföreträdande (sv), stf (sv)
Thai: รักษาการ (th) (rák-sǎa-gaan)
Ukrainian: виконувач обов'язків m (vykonuvač obovʺjazkiv)

acting

acting (countable and uncountable, plural actings)

(countable, now rare) An action or deed.
- 1685, Herbert Croft, Some Animadversions upon a book intituled, The Theory of the Earth‎, London, Preface:
  […] he does so much magnifie Nature and her Actings in all this material World, as he gives just cause of suspicion that he hath made her a kind of joynt Deess with God in the Affairs thereof;
- 1722, Daniel Defoe, “A Journal of the Plague Year”, in et al., London: E. Nutt, page 10:
  […] I desire this Account may pass with them, rather for a Direction to themselves to act by, than a History of my actings, seeing it may not be of one farthing value to them to note what became of me.
- 1974, J. R. Jacob, “Robert Boyle and Subversive Religion in the Early Restoration”, in Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, volume 6, number 4, →JSTOR, page 276:
  Boyle’s theory explains the whole range of God’s actings in the world, those things that injure man as well as those which advantage him.
(countable, law) Something done by a party—so called to avoid confusion with the legal senses of deed and action.
(uncountable) Pretending.
(uncountable, drama) The occupation of an actor.

occupation of an actor

Arabic: تَمْثِيل m (tamṯīl)
Armenian: դերասանություն (hy) (derasanutʻyun)
Catalan: actuació (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 演技 (zh) (yǎnjì)
Esperanto: aktorado
Finnish: näytteleminen (fi)
German: Schauspielkunst (de) f
Greek:
Ancient: ὑπόκρισις f (hupókrisis)
Hungarian: színjátszás (hu), színészi játék, alakítás (hu)
Indonesian: akting (id)
Irish: aisteoireacht f
Japanese: 演技 (ja) (えんぎ, engi)
Kapampangan: pamagarti, pamagarte
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Korean: 연기(演技) (ko) (yeon'gi)
Kyrgyz: оюнчулук (oyunculuk)
Latin: histriōnia f
Macedonian: глума f (gluma)
Malayalam: അഭിനയം (ml) (abhinayaṁ)
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Persian: بازیگری (fa) (bâzigari)
Polish: aktorstwo (pl) n, aktorszczyzna f (derogatory)
Portuguese: atuação (pt) f, encenação f
Romanian: actorie (ro) f
Russian: актёрство (ru) n (aktjórstvo), актёрское иску́сство n (aktjórskoje iskússtvo)
Slovene: igranje n
Spanish: actuación (es)
Swedish: skådespeleri (sv)
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: oyunculuk (tr)
Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

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