Acting vs Imp - What's the difference?
acting | imp |
Temporarily]] assuming the [[duty, duties or authority of another person when they are unable to do their job.
An intended action or deed.
Pretending.
(drama) The occupation of an actor.
(legal) The deeds or actions of parties are called actings to avoid confusion with the legal senses of deeds and actions.
(obsolete) A young shoot of a plant, tree etc.
* Sir Orfeo , 69:
(obsolete) A scion, offspring; a child.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene I.3:
* Fairfax
A young or inferior devil; a malevolent supernatural creature, similar to a demon but smaller and less powerful.
* Beattie
A mischievous child.
* 1908 ,
(UK, dialect, obsolete) Something added to, or united with, another, to lengthen it out or repair it, such as an addition to a beehive; a feather inserted in a broken wing of a bird; or a length of twisted hair in a fishing line.
(obsolete) To plant or engraft.
(archaic) To graft, implant; to set or fix.
*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.9:
*:That headlesse tyrants tronke he reard from ground, / And, having ympt the head to it agayne, / Upon his usuall beast it firmely bound, / And made it so to ride as it alive was found.
(falconry) To engraft feathers into a bird's wing.
To eke out, strengthen, enlarge.
As an adjective acting
is temporarily]] assuming the [[duty|duties or authority of another person when they are unable to do their job.As a verb acting
is .As a noun acting
is an intended action or deed.As an initialism imp is
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English
Adjective
(-)- The Acting Minister must sign Executive Council documents in a Minister's absence.
- Acting President of the United States is a temporary office in the government of the United States.
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)imp
English
Noun
(en noun)- Þai sett hem doun al þre / Vnder a fair ympe-tre.
- And thou most dreaded impe of highest Ioue'', / Faire ''Venus sonne, [...] come to mine ayde [...].
- The tender imp was weaned.
- to mingle in the clamorous fray of squabbling imps
- I've left my young children to look after themselves, and a more mischievous and troublesome set of young imps doesn't exist...
Synonyms
* (mischievous child) brat, urchin, little dickensDerived terms
* impish * implikeVerb
(en verb)- "For, if I imp my wing on Thine" – Herbert (1633)