Act Upon

Definition: Act Upon

Act Upon

Verb

1. Have and exert influence or effect; "The artist's work influenced the young painter"; "She worked on her friends to support the political candidate".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Act Upon

Action

Act, operate; take action, take steps; strike a blow, lift a finger, stretch forth one's hand; take in hand; (undertake); put oneself in motion; put in practice; carry into execution; (complete); act upon.

Agency

Verb: be -in action; Adjective: operate, work; act, act upon; perform, play, support, sustain, strain, maintain, take effect, quicken, strike.

Crosswords: Act Upon

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I knew it too, but could never quite find in my heart to act upon the knowledge

The vision of the act upon which he felt himself, perhaps on the point of entering, appeared to him no longer lamentable, but superb

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

An herb is a plant or plant part that produces and contains chemical substances that act upon the body. (references)

Human Rights

Colombia

The prosecutor must then act upon that petition within 36 hours of its submission. (references)

Belize

The HRCB publishes human rights complaints and urges police and other governmental bodies to act upon them. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Dutch

opvolgen (act on, follow, observe, run after), handelen volgens (act on, follow, observe). (various references)

Finnish

toimia jonkun neuvon mukaan (act upon a person's advice). (various references)

French

agir selon (act on), suivre (accompany, act on), respecter (act on). (various references)

German

befolgen (act on, comply with, follow, keep, obey, observe, to follow, to obey). (various references)

Hungarian

igazodik vmihez (to act on, to act upon), hat vmire (to act on, to act upon, to work on, to work upon), eljár vmi szerint (to act on, to act upon). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

言い出しっぺ (the one who brings up a subject must be the first to act upon it, the one who brought it up, the one who calls attention to a fart is in fact the farter), 言い出しっ屁 (the one who brings up a subject must be the first to act upon it, the one who brought it up, the one who calls attention to a fart is in fact the farter). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いい� しっぺ (the one who brings up a subject must be the first to act upon it, the one who brought it up, the one who calls attention to a fart is in fact the farter). (various references)

Pig Latin

actay onupay.(various references)

Russian 

воздействовать на. (various references)

Spanish

actuar sobre. (various references)

Swedish

handla på grundval av. (various references)

Turkish

göre davranmak (act on, go by). (various references)

Ukrainian

діяти відповідно до (act on). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: toucan.

-2 letters: canto, capon, caput, coapt, cotan, count, octan, panto, punto, puton, unapt, uncap.

-3 letters: atop, aunt, auto, cant, capo, coat, coup, nota, pact, pant, pout, puna, punt, taco, tuna, unco, unto, upon.

-4 letters: act, ant, apt, can, cap, cat, con, cop, cot, cup, cut, nap, not, nut, oat, oca, opt, out, pac, pan.

+1 letter: occupant.

+2 letters: cantaloup, occupants, outpacing.

+3 letters: cantaloupe, cantaloups, conceptual, copulating, copulation, occupation, peculation, postlaunch, postulancy, precaution, punctation, punctuator.

+4 letters: aponeurotic, cantaloupes, computation, copulations, counterpane, counterpart, counterplan, counterplay, counterplea, cupellation, cuspidation, duplication, exculpation, inculpation, inculpatory, neuropathic, occupations, outcapering, paramountcy, peculations, pococurante, precautions, procrustean, procuration, publication, punctations, punctuation, punctuators, speculation, spiculation, uncaptioned, unpatriotic, unpolitical.

+5 letters: autohypnotic, capitulation, captiousness, compurgation, computations, conceptually, conduplicate, contrapuntal, counterpanes, counterparts, counterplans, counterplays, counterpleas, cupellations, cuspidations, deuteranopic, duplications, exculpations, incomputable, incomputably, inculpations, inoperculate, naturopathic, occupational, outplacement, outpreaching, pectinaceous, percutaneous, pertinacious, photonuclear, postulancies, precautioned, proconsulate, procurations, productional, protactinium, protuberance, publications, punctuations, purification, putrefaction, recuperation, reoccupation, speculations, spiculations, stupefaction, supplication, transpicuous, unapologetic, uncomplacent, undiplomatic, unimportance.