actor

Noun

actor (plural actors)

1. a person who performs in a theatrical play or film
2. one who acts; a doer
3. one who takes part in a situation
4. (law) An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes.
5. (law) One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or complainant.
6. (policy debate) One who enacts a certain policy action.
7. (software engineering) The entity that performs a role (in use case analysis).

Synonyms:

• (person who performs in a theatrical play or film): actress (female), performer, player
• (one who acts): doer
• (one who takes part): participant
• (advocate in civil courts or cases):
• (a plaintiff): complainant, plaintiff
• (one who enacts a policy action)
• (entity performing a role in use case analysis): role

5 letters in word "actor": A C O R T.

Anagrams of actor:

• taroc

Words found within actor:

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• Definitions:
• a theatrical performer 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"
• An actor or actress is a person who acts, or plays a role, in a dramatic production. The term commonly refers to someone working in movies, television, live theatre, or radio, and can occasionally denote a street entertainer. ...
• In the parlance of criminal justice, a suspect is a person, known or unknown, suspected of committing a crime. Some systems of police procedure or legal terminology refer to the suspect as the actor, or as the perpetrator of the offense (perp for short).
• In the Unified Modeling Language (UML), an actor is something or someone who supplies a stimulus to the system. An actor cannot be controlled by the system and is defined as being outside the system.
• Actor (, Honarpisheh), is a 1993 film by Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf.
• In sociology, AI and programming language theory, actants are the principal concern of the actor-network theory, the activity of which is described as "mediation" or "translation".
• Actor (Greek ) is a very common name in Greek mythology. Here is a selection of characters that share this name (which means 'leader', from the verb ???: to lead or carry, to convey, bring): 1. ...
• In policy debate, an actor is an entity that enacts a certain policy action. If a plan were to have the U.S. send humanitarian aid to Sudan, then the actor would be the United States federal government.
• "a performer who developed in himself the art of inner and outer mimicry and incarnation" (Richard Boleslavsky on Stanislavsky System). Initiator, leader and organizer of the material (the actor and medium are one and the same thing). (Biomechanics)
• A physical partner, system component or user participating in a process instance
• Someone involved in the story, either as one who pulls the levers that make things happen, or the person who gets caught in the gears. Not the official spokespeople, experts or other bystanders.
• An actor is a representation of an entity that interacts with and derives value from the system.
• An actor is an attribute defined by the SOAP 1.1 specifications. It's presence on a child element of the Header element identifies the endpoint for which this element was intended. See SOAP.
• "The actors represent what interacts with the system. ... Actors are not like other objects in the respect that their actions are non-deterministic. We differentiate between actors and users. ...
• A player or GM (qq.v.) who attempts to simulate the voice, facial expression, etc., of a character being played, rather than using detached or third-person descriptions of behaviour.
• Man who plays a character in a film.
• is a construct that is employed in use cases which define a role that a user or any other system plays when interacting with the system under consideration. Actors may represent human users, external hardware, or other subjects. (Source: Roques (2004), 65)
• has also the sense of an agent or manager of another's business generally. The actor publicus was an officer who had the superintendence or care of slaves belonging to the state. Lipsius says that the actor publicus was a slave or freedman. ...
• A person who plays a role. The term "actor" can apply to performers of either gender -- an actress or a male actor, but sometimes used only in reference to males.
• An actor is someone or something that interacts with the system. At any moment, an actor assumes a particular role. (eg. graduate student assumes role of instructor)
• (UML 1.4): An actor defines a coherent set of roles that users of an entity can play when interacting with the entity. An actor may be considered to play a separate role with regard to each use case with which it communicates.
• Any person interacting with others in the health system.
• A person who portrays a character in a fictional film or television show. In documentary people often are referred to as social actors.
• An actor is any chemical compound from the ontology that can participate in an event in the ``subject'' position.
• A person who plays the role of a character. Historically, the term ``Actor'' referred exclusively to males, but in modern times the term is used for both genders.
• a gifted individual who has studied the craft of acting in order to portray roles in performances of dramatic literaure.
• Organism sending out a signal.
• A term used for both male and female characters that play a role in a play or movie.

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