Definitions for Actor
ˈæk tərActor

Princeton's WordNet(4.83 / 6 votes)Rate this definition:

1. actor, histrion, player, thespian, role playernoun

   a theatrical performer

2. actor, doer, workernoun

   a person who acts and gets things done

   "he's a principal actor in this affair"; "when you want something done get a doer"; "he's a miracle worker"

Wiktionary(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. actornoun

   a person who performs in a theatrical play or film

   Etymology: From actor, from . Cognate with Ancient Greek ἄκτωρ, from ἄγω.

2. actornoun

   one who acts; a doer

   Etymology: From actor, from . Cognate with Ancient Greek ἄκτωρ, from ἄγω.

3. actornoun

   one who takes part in a situation

   Etymology: From actor, from . Cognate with Ancient Greek ἄκτωρ, from ἄγω.

4. actornoun

   An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes.

   Etymology: From actor, from . Cognate with Ancient Greek ἄκτωρ, from ἄγω.

5. actornoun

   One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or complainant.

   Etymology: From actor, from . Cognate with Ancient Greek ἄκτωρ, from ἄγω.

6. actornoun

   One who enacts a certain policy action.

   Etymology: From actor, from . Cognate with Ancient Greek ἄκτωρ, from ἄγω.

7. actornoun

   The entity that performs a role (in use case analysis).

   Etymology: From actor, from . Cognate with Ancient Greek ἄκτωρ, from ἄγω.

Webster Dictionary(3.33 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Actornoun

   one who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer

   Etymology: [L. actor, fr. agere to act.]

2. Actornoun

   a theatrical performer; a stageplayer

   Etymology: [L. actor, fr. agere to act.]

3. Actornoun

   an advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes

   Etymology: [L. actor, fr. agere to act.]

4. Actornoun

   one who institutes a suit; plaintiff or complainant

   Etymology: [L. actor, fr. agere to act.]

Freebase(3.67 / 3 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Actor

   An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic or comic production and works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity. The ancient Greek word for an "actor," ὑποκριτής, means literally "one who interprets"; in this sense, an actor is one who interprets a dramatic character.

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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Actor' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4396

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Actor' in Nouns Frequency: #1201

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Actor in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Actor in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Actor in a Sentence

1. Musin Almat Zhumabekovich:

   1. Love through suffering. 2. Love through a bunch of problems, through scandals and hatred and anger. Love is the only rational phenomenon. 1. It's amazing how cramped our life is and perhaps more free after death. Our life is like this cramped aquarium. An empty life from within is transparent to the gods. Like a drop in the ocean. All non-living ones look at us like these fish. We are not able to lie because we can see through who we are and what we are. What we do every day and we have little space to live. We are limited by life itself in a small body. Our body is the aquarium of the soul. Limitations on our mind for truth for will. We cannot hide, we cannot hide. Our life is a portrait of current truth. Current revelations. We are locked in life, but someday we will be in space next to God. 2. A tired evening in it the heaviness and silence and calmness from the fact that we have lived the next day are felt. A street in which the epic landscape of life is visible. We are part of the mechanical world. Micro particles of microcircuit life. Programs living according to a certain algorithm. Life is a microsystem of fate. The truth about us is a projection that we are all ashamed of. We hide most of our lives under the guise of hypocrisy. Perhaps hypocrisy is not only selfishness, but also shame. We hide our imperfection, because we are entangled in ourselves. We did not understand this microcircuit of fate. Not resigned to what they should have understood. We are tired of life, but our microcircuit has not expired. Life is like this hard evening. 3. Life is a microchip in the subconscious, we act according to a certain scheme of the algorithm, which is called the rhythm of life. 4. Culture is a code of diplomacy. 5. people do not really see each other, they see their thoughts and goals. The universe of loneliness is expanding and people are moving away from each other because of their thoughts. 6. The city is so cold and mechanical, the society is like a complex techno machine that controls the flow of people. Directs the circulation of the stream of life to certain channels of destiny. Technology for managing desires through selfishness. 7. A dark city lit by a fog of serenity of thoughts. A city shrouded in secrets, a city that darkens with vices day and night. Hidden in the silence of illusion, the city is immersed in the sleep of unconsciousness. A city that moves into emptiness and truth is silent in it, the silence of egoism and the cry of the ego. The whole city is roaring in the void of nonsense. 8. Erotic hypnosis, I want to sing with delight, hypnotic delight and extraterrestrial euphoria of love feelings, I feel myself in the higher world of love and sentimental sensitivity of tenderness and erotic catharsis of the highest art of beauty of your body, epic romance of euphoria in my heart at the sight of you. Manipulating beauty of your body. Sentimentally I caress you with words and the magic of charm struck me, magnetically beautiful in my thoughts my heart and mind poeticize your beauty every passing second unforgettable nostalgia my libido sings your beauty in my eyes you are more beautiful billions of times testosterone writes endless lovingly erotic poems, my loins scream about you, my subconscious is praying for you, my unconsciousness leads to you, my consciousness is obsessed with you. 9. Super beautiful, dumb delight, orgasm of catharsis, I meditate on your beauty. Feelings are like a hot groan of delight, you are oblivion. Your beauty is a hype of life, with you every second is priceless, beauty of the highest standard, countless carats of aesthetics, you consist of countless compliments, you are a juicy paradise fruit. 10. Ego prostheses are pumped with botex, silicone and synthol. 11. Sooner or later we will become ghosts, we will become history and our memory will turn into retro nostalgia. We plunge into the oblivion of oblivion. And the seconds passing through the fingers are drowned in the amnesia of eternity. The more selfish the world becomes, the more commonplace it becomes. A philosophical look through the emptiness of eternity. An abundance of thoughts satisfies the hunger for misunderstanding. We will become transparent ghosts and the world will become transparent to realists and pessimists. Looking into the future, we see spoiled, blind egoists. Truth meditation in which subtle details are visible. In a reality in which the pus of selfishness oozes. 12. Wild fire of passion of the epic of love, meow with delight, purring sensuality. Musical poetry of feelings, compliments fly out by themselves, I am drawn to you ballistic, instinctively, I see only you on the radar of love, my sonar of deep love, I love you stubbornly, aggressive rock fire of passion in me, rhythmic rap of the beat of my heart in so with yours ... The musical energy of endless love. 3. 1. The world of people turns into a clown paradox, circus absurdity. A clown show of selfish hypocrisy. 2. Lightness and airiness in romance, everything is so blurred and soaring. The wet colors of reality fascinate with their philosophical romance. These are judgments about life, you gaze into reality at its essence. The lightest notes of reality poetry. They soar and live. It's so beautiful and easy when you see the world in special colors. Like the northern lights, the philosophical poetics of life in which the colors of life, emotions and feelings shimmer, they take us into an endless depth of thought. They show us a whole universe of thoughts. The abundance in which we cognize ourselves and open our bottomless soul and heart like a beacon shines with a kindred spirit. 3. Stupidity is a karmic jiff animation of a time loop. You repeat the same nonsense over and over again. Each has its own reality, its own animation in the animatronics of behavior. 4. I love you, I see it vigilantly, the highest value of the universe, you can fantasize about you forever, I love you and feel it mentally, I feel you phantom. All the compliments are not enough to describe this beauty, the highest aesthetics of luxury of eroticism, poetic eroticism, euphoria of love, you can be expected forever. 5. The rattle of the mind, the rattle of reality, the gene quantum leap of reincarnation in the psychic trap of the time loop, in the cell of the vicious body, the philosophical energy of life is stored. 6. You are sweeter than all temptations, you are hotter than sex, you are the jackpot of fate. We can talk endlessly about your beauty. I explode with passion over and over again when I see you to be with you forever is not enough. You are the highest pleasure and the meaning of life and eternity, and value. My sincerity poeticizes your beauty. Paradise is where you are. You are my enduring dream. 4. A creative person, be it a singer, actor, artist, musician, dancer, etc., is a star who illuminates and warms the souls of the whole world with her amazing talent. But then star fever begins, that is, the star's creative crisis, her fame dies and she turns into a black hole of scandalous vanity, which sucks in all the attention of the surrounding worlds. 26. You are in the artificial intelligence of the herd instinct. How you behave is an artificial intelligence program. 2. Poetic ascension, like birdsong. For birds, singing is an instinct and an art. How many instincts are there on the canvas of thought. Like a splash of expression, a splash of emotion. Aria coming from the depths of the soul. Beautiful feelings of lyrics to tears. Harmony of color as a subtle aesthetics. Refined intuition of truth, like the sound of a violin. Leading to the heights of the highest feelings of the poetry of the spirit. 3. Graffiti is a gangsta painting, an anytopia of culture. 4. We are tiny particles of the universe. We are the energy that will evaporate. Consciousness in a dance with the subconscious seems to be leading the dance of eternity, as the present with the past and the future is unconscious, and the past is the subconscious and consciousness is the present. Life is accelerating that we do not always have time to say goodbye. We are moving towards the end point where we will gain eternity. But in life we ​​will not find eternity only in the torment of passions. We remain in this eternity like scars of reality in the form of ghosts. Life is the greatness of the romance of emptiness. The great philosophical path of the soul, up the ladder of insight. Where the crackle of reality is visible and there is a more real world. 5. We live in the twilight of unconsciousness. In the mystical fog of the vague consciousness of the timeless existence of the soul. 6. 1. Numerology of mercantileness is the codes of fate in which mostly selfish people are born. 2. Advertising is the dictator of culture. 7. harmony of what has no relationship with each other. Incompatible elements on earth have a harmony of existence. And all this creates harmony in the chaos itself. Also among people, incompatible people get along together. Love is the harmony of chaos. As if different elements of the universe mixed together to create the world. The world strives to get used to everything and everyone. Combine the incompatible. Create mestizo culture. 8. Experience is the metronome of intuition, the path to the philosophical aesthetics of thought. Actor's rehearsals of reincarnation in an endless repetition of an absurd life. The only way out is in the sincerity of the heart. 9. Thousands of subtle one-dimensional dimensions of egoism. Flat humor of reality. They are like dripping drops on the wall. They dry up in eternity. Shimmers and shimmers. One-dimensional worlds of egoists. Here logic rationalizes illusion and ridiculous paradoxes. We must wake up from life to see everything from the outside. the technical world of formality and the meticulous perfectionism of arrogance. 10. Holiness reduces gravity. 5. 1. Form yourself Body like children's plasticine, become such a man so that girls and women have a natural fire between their legs, so that trousers are on fire with excitement. The same applies to girls, the more your shape, that is, the bait you are more likely to get married. 2. Cybernetics of etiquette The danger is that the robotization of the formal hypocrisy of the selfish world is developing. The cybernetics of selfish etiquette, where one will unlearn compassion and even cry, everyone will only smile politely while committing an unconscious sin that is the result of hopeless despair. 3. Around you there are a lot of ironic gifts in which there may be a hypocritical sarcasm of approval. Gifts of Fate and they all tick and only a few of them will not explode and cripple you. Be sure to save those that talk about your family and children. 4. Wild anger enveloped in chains of patience, red-hot with the fire of rage. Abstinence is the highest human feeling. You must live a life without anger, shackling him in the arms of nobility and love, and then the hellish flame of anger will turn into a steel of peace. Anger is painful because it is a delusion devoid of any sense of justice, it does not give you respect or a sense of satisfaction from justice, only a contemptible shame in front of higher powers. Anger is an unnecessary feeling of the mind and heart, it is a fire that burns the soul and defiles memory. Anger is the product of new grievances, dramas, and tragedies. Live only one life without anger, and the vicious circle of self-deception, the wheel of samsara and reincarnation of déjà vu, the whole life as an inadequate sleep will stop, and you will wake up in paradise, the same life will stop repeating itself. 5. Cyber ​​Animatronics In all this cyber illusion of the human world, the animatronic work ethic needs to be lubricated with the machine oil of the humanity of empathy. 6. Your self-deception and selfishness Beat to death only a few enemies, laziness because of which you will become poor, fear giving problems (beat the problem, not people) and your own selfishness, because of which you will be lonely. And your most important enemy, the boss of all your problems and sorrows because of which you live in the illusions of deception - it is your self-deception because of him, you do not see the truth and the light of holiness of spirit, their death will give you happiness. 7. Fear is your shadow, the sun reflects in it all your instincts in which vices and inner flaws are hidden. Fear is a confirmation that you are alive, since the dead do not have a shadow, some after death themselves turn into a shadow. 8. Relationships are children's play tea. 9. Chaste modesty in modern society is the pestis of a hypocritical girl in an erotic costume of an angel with a trident of a devil as a symbol of bitchiness. 10. For higher powers, feelings are not important, only a reaction. 11. Loneliness is an oppressive silence, plunging into the depths of reality and the words are just noise. 12. Be against any kind of smoking, because the smoker smokes and exhales cigarette smoke. This smoke from his rotten lungs, spoiled body, harmful bacteria, all this nasty dirt in the smoke goes into your nose and mouth. If you value your health, then be against smoking 13. The smile of awareness gives sexual pleasure from your own laughter - this is an epiphany orgasm. 14. Self-deception catches your joke by grabbing your hand, the joke of which you wanted to hit someone and half of your life beats you half to death with your own joke, but this is the irony of karma. 15. All people are diamonds, but they do not cleanse themselves of the dirt of laziness, without striving for perfection, they do not want to make themselves a filigree cut to see new facets of possibilities. 16. Look at these two smiling freaks, they are your laziness and fear, they are the sixes of your egoism, while egoism submits to self-deception. Because of them, you are at the bottom of your life. Take two brass knuckles: will and courage, beat them, but kill them, I feel how you get pleasure from this, you see that you are becoming richer. Kill them because only they pull you to the bottom. 17. When the powerful bass of anger sounds, everyone is deaf in their eyes, the darkness of selfishness, and their eyes reflect drama, and maybe tragedy, but later comes realization along with crying laughter of regret. 18. Potential is a lunar eclipse when it overshadows all envious shadows. 19. Looking like a lot of playful toys called chattering teeth in the basement of mankind's thinking, this place is the abode of envy. 20. History hides the sins of selfishness under new theories. 21. Time accumulates ghosts Time accumulates ghosts, over time they can become so many that they will become a separate people and the living and the dead will live together as one people. 22. Faithful loving girls are the most gorgeous and luxurious they are priceless. 23. Psychology is stereotyped Psychology thinks very stereotypically, you cannot fully rely on it, since it is almost impossible to calculate the code of behavior or the pattern of its actions. Since a person is unpredictable even for himself. 24. Compliment girls more often Compliments are like an erotic massage of the soul and nerves for a girl. Author: Musin Almat Zhumabekovich

2. Marc Cherry:

   We were doing ‘Golden Palace’ and we had a character actor and he was having problems with his lines, he was in his mid-80s… We’re doing the second show in front of a live audience, this guy is really struggling, you can feel the audience getting irritated with him.

3. Kelly Ripa:

   From our point of view, it looked like he got poked in the eye, i was like, I get it, that hurts, and sometimes your eye -- it wont open. But we were like, OK, Joaquin, for heavens sakes, pull yourself together. ... And I was saying, See? Hes an actor. Because he was [covering his face]. It was very dramatic.

4. Anuj Somany:

   An actor who has gone through regular struggle to earn bread & butter in real life can only do the role of comedy character convincingly in reel life to put the smile on the face of an intelligent spectator.

5. Charlotte Rampling:

   Maybe this time, no black actor or actress deserved to make it to the final selection, why should we always categorize people? I think nowadays we are living in easily offended societies. There will always be someone who's too beautiful, too black or not white enough.

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