acting

1. (countable, now rare) An action or deed.Examples: "[…] 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;"; "[…] 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."; "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."archaiccountable

2. (countable, law) Something done by a party—so called to avoid confusion with the legal senses of deed and action.countable

3. (uncountable) Pretending.uncountable

4. (uncountable, drama) The occupation of an actor.uncountable