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1. Actor
   Actor is slang for someone accomplished at playing a role, or bluffing.
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2. Actor
   [film] Actor ( هنرپیشه , Honarpisheh), is a 1993 Iranian film directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf. The film features Akbar Abdi as Akbar, Fatemeh Motamed-Aria as his wife, Simin, and Mahaya Petrosian as the gypsy girl. The film is a combination of fiction and reality since the leading chara...
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3. Actor
   [sociology] ===W. Mark Felt aka Watergate`s Deep Throat=== Self-nom. Detailed, sourced account of Mark Felt`s life with references. If someone wants to add specific footnotes--I don`t understand how the footnote system works--see my list here. PedanticallySpeaking 14:44, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC) ...
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4. Actor
   [mythology] Actor (Greek: Ἄκτωρ; gen.: Ἄκτoρος) is a very common name in Greek mythology. Here is a selection of characters that share this name (which means `leader`, from the verb άγω: to lead or carry, to convey, bring): ==Sources== ...
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5. Actor
   Actor is slang for someone accomplished at playing a role, or bluffing.
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6. Actor
   [policy debate] 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. Many times, actors are subdivided into more specific "agents". The most c...
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7. Actor
   [disambiguation] An actor is a person who plays a role in theater, cinema or television. Actor can also mean: Actress is the feminine form of "actor"; it can refer to: == See also == ...
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8. Actor
   [UML] An actor in the Unified Modeling Language (UML) "specifies a role played by a user or any other system that interacts with the subject." "An Actor models a type of role played by an entity that interacts with the subject (e.g., by exchanging signals and data), but which is external to ...
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9. actor
   [n] - a person who acts and gets things done 2. [n] - a theatrical performer
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10. Actor
    In Greek mythology, son of Deion or Myrmidon, and grandfather of Patroclus, whose descendants were called Actorides. ...
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11. actor
    Performer who takes one or more role(s) in a play or film. In ancient Greece, the speaking actors were distinguished from the chorus, whereas in ancient Indian and in medieval Japanese drama,...
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12. actor
    object in an object-oriented method that represents an entity capable of exhibiting behaviour Category: Automation (includes telecommunications and computers) • a performer on the stage.The term actor is strictly applicable to players on the legitimate stage rather than to those in music...
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13. Actor
    Ac'tor noun [ Latin actor , from agere to act.] 1. One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer. 2. A theatrical performer; a stageplayer. « After a well graced actor leaves the stage. Shak. �...
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14. actor
    histrion noun a theatrical performer
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15. actor
    noun 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`
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16. Actor
    • (n.) One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer. • (n.) A theatrical performer; a stageplayer. • (n.) An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes. • (n.) One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or complainant.
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17. actor
    actor 1. Originally, an agent or doer. 2. A person who acts and gets things done. 3. A theatrical performer.
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18. actor
    Person playing a character in a play on the stage. His / her performance represents an interpretation of the character provided by the producer or director.
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19. Actor
    The term is male in orientation but refers to any male or female who plays a role in film, on stage or in television productions
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20. Actor
    An actor is a dramatic performer. One who performs in plays.
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21. Actor
    (language) An object-oriented language for Microsoft Windows written by Charles Duff of the Whitewater Group ca. 1986. It has Pascal/C-like syntax. Uses a token-threaded interpreter. Early binding is an option. ['Actor Does More than Windows', E.R. Tello, Dr Dobb's J 13(1):114-125 (Jan 1988)]. (1994-11-08)
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22. actor
    1. (programming) In object-oriented programming, an object which exists as a concurrent process. 2. (operating system) In Chorus, the unit of resource allocation. (1994-11-08)
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23. Actor
    An actor (sometimes actress for female; see terminology) is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity. The ancient Greek word for an "actor," ὑποκριτής (hypokrites), means literally "one who interprets"; in this sense, an actor is one who interprets a dramatic cha...
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24. Actor
    [album] Actor is the second album by musician St. Vincent, released by 4AD on May 4, 2009, in the United Kingdom and a day later in the United States. The first single released was "Actor Out of Work" that April. St. Vincent wrote the album using the computer music application GarageBand. ==...
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25. Actor
    [programming language] The Actor programming language was invented by Charles Duff of The Whitewater Group in 1988. It was an offshoot of some object-oriented extensions to the Forth language he had been working on. Actor would be categorized as a pure object-oriented language in the style o...
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