Act vs Behave - What's the difference?
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A certain standardized college admissions test in the United States, originally called the (term).
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(label) To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way.
* Bible, ii. 21
(label) To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner;
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, title= To conduct, manage, regulate (something).
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.iii:
(label) To act in a polite or proper way.
Behave is a synonym of act.
In intransitive terms the difference between act and behave
is that act is to behave in a certain way while behave is to act in a polite or proper way.In obsolete transitive terms the difference between act and behave
is that act is to move to action; to actuate; to animate while behave is to conduct, manage, regulate (something).As a proper noun ACT
is initialism of Australian Capital Territory|lang=en, a federal territory of Australia.As a noun ACT
is a certain standardized college admissions test in the United States, originally called the {{term||American College Test}}.act
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* (American College Test) SAT , GMAT , MCAT , DATAnagrams
* * * * English three-letter wordsbehave
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- those that behaved themselves manfully
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- He did behave his anger ere 'twas spent.
- who his limbs with labours, and his mind / Behaues with cares, cannot so easie mis.