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Definitions: Act Up |
Act UpVerb1. Misbehave badly; act in a silly or improper way; "The children acted up when they were not bored". 2. Make itself felt; as of recurring pains; "My arthritis is acting up again". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Act UpSynonym: carry on (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Observance | Verb: observe, comply with, respect, acknowledge, abide by; cling to, adhere to, be faithful to, act up to; meet, fulfill; carry out, carry into execution; execute, perform, keep, satisfy, discharge; do one's office. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Demonstration, Act up, Atlanta, 1988.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Expressions using "act up": act up to ♦ act up to one's promise ♦ to act up ♦ To act up to. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "act up"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | sillem keq (be naughty, behave disgracefully, misbehave). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ساء السلوك. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | реагирам (react, respond, retroact), фукам се (put on side, swank), капризнича (be capricious), обаждам се (call, kick up, look up, pipe up, strike in), не слушам, не работя добре, не мирувам, правя номера. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zlobit (annoy, blink, bother, get up to mischief, irk, irritate, spite), vyvádìt (carry on, create, horse about, make the fire, take on). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | nukken vertonen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | se tenir mal, se conduire mal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | sich anstellen (act, behave, line up, make a fuss, queue, queue up, stand in line), bocken (buck, bucking, jib, play up, refuse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παρεκτρέπομαι (misbehave), ενοχλώ (ail, annoy, badger, bedevil, bother, derange, discommode, disturb, fret, get someone's back up, grate on, harass, heckle, incommode, inconvenience, infest, irk, irritate, jar on, pester, pother, trouble), δημιουργώ πρόβλημα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"שתולל (go haywire, make mischief, racket, rave). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | valaminek megfelelõen jár el. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | funzionare male. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | actay upay ser caprichoso, replicar (answer, confute, rebut, rejoin, repeat, reply, respond, retort, return). (various references) a-şi ţine promisiunea (act up to one's promise, be true to one's promise). (various references) сдержать обещание. (various references) raditi rđavo, ponašati se nepristojno. (various references) travesear, hacer de las suyas, funcionar mal (malfunction), fallar (backfire, Bumble, fail, flaw, give out, give up, let down, make a hash of it, misfire, Miss, ruff, rule, trump). (various references) strula, krångla (bitch, bother, conk, give trouble, palter, trouble). (various references) yaramazlık etmek (be up to some mischief, get into mischief, misbehave, play hob with, raise hob with), teklemek (hesitate, kick, knock, misfire, skip, stutter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: caput. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-p-t-u" | |
-1 letter: pact. | |
-2 letters: act, apt, cap, cat, cup, cut, pac, pat, put, tap, tau, tup, uta. | |
-3 letters: at, pa, ta, up, ut. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-p-t-u" | |
+1 letter: catsup, teacup, upcast. | |
+2 letters: cajaput, cajeput, cajuput, capture, catchup, catsups, chutzpa, cuspate, matchup, outpace, paucity, stackup, teacups, upcasts, upcoast. | |
+3 letters: autopsic, cajaputs, cajeputs, cajuputs, capitula, captious, captured, capturer, captures, catapult, catchups, chutzpah, chutzpas, copulate, cupulate, cuspated, deathcup, dumpcart, eucalypt, matchups, occupant, outcaper, outpaced, outpaces, peculate, punctate, punctual, pushcart, pussycat, stackups. | |
+4 letters: apiculate, aspectual, cantaloup, capitular, capitulum, capturers, capturing, catapults, chutzpahs, copulated, copulates, cuspidate, deathcups, dumpcarts, duplicate, eucalypti, eucalypts, exculpate, hypocaust, inculpate, occupants, outcapers, outpacing, outpreach, parachute, patchouli, patchouly, paucities, peculated, peculates, peculator, petulance, petulancy, plutocrat, pneumatic, portulaca, practicum, pugnacity, punctuate, pushcarts, pussycats, recapture, spacesuit, speculate, teacupful, untypical, upcasting. | |
+5 letters: apiculture, apothecium, bankruptcy, callithump, cantaloupe, cantaloups, capitulary, capitulate, capsulated, captiously, catapulted, computable, conceptual, copulating, copulation, copulative, copulatory, duplicated, duplicates, duplicator, eucalyptol, eucalyptus, exculpated, exculpates, hyperacute, hypocausts, inculpated, inculpates, leucoplast, manuscript, metacarpus, occupation, operculate, outcapered, pancratium, paniculate, parachuted, parachutes, parachutic, particular, pasticheur, patchoulis, paunchiest, peculating, peculation, peculators, pediculate, perceptual, petulances, plutocracy, plutocrats, portulacas, postlaunch, postulancy, practicums, precaution, procurator, punctation, punctually, punctuated, punctuates, punctuator, purtenance, recaptured, recaptures, recuperate, scriptural, sculptural, spacesuits, speculated, speculates, speculator, subchapter, subcompact, supplicant, supplicate, supraoptic, teacupfuls, teacupsful, unaccepted, uncarpeted, unemphatic, unpedantic, unpunctual. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 63 74 55 70 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100011 01110100 00100000 01010101 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A c t   U p |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0063 0074 0055 0070 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35698625582 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Expressions 7. Translations: Modern 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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