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Definition: Acting Out |
Acting OutNoun1. A (usually irritating) impulsive and uncontrollable outburst by a problem child or a neurotic adult. 2. (psychiatry) the display of previously inhibited emotions (often in actions rather than words); considered to be healthy and therapeutic. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Health | Expressing unconscious emotional conflicts or feelings, often of hostility or love, through overt behavior. (references) |
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Crosswords: Acting Out |
| Specialty definitions using "acting out": Psychodrama ♦ role playing. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Acting Out (1984) | |
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Theater & Movies | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Goldi tribesmen acting out folk drama, "The repulse of the kidnapper". Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Health | Behavior problems, including aggression, sudden rage, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, acting out, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and repetitive, destructive, or self-harming behavior, may occur in children with TSC. Some individuals with TSC may also have a developmental disorder called autism. (references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: outacting. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-g-i-n-o-t-t-u" | |
-2 letters: auction, autoing, catting, caution, coating, cutting, outgain, taction, tauting, touting. | |
-3 letters: acting, action, agonic, agouti, atonic, catgut, cation, coting, gitano, intact, nougat, octant, outact, outing, tautog, toting, toucan, tunica. | |
-4 letters: acing, actin, antic, attic, canto, coati, coign, conga, cotan, cotta, count, cuing, cutin, gaunt, giant, gonia, guaco, guano, gutta, incog, ingot, octan, ontic. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-g-i-n-o-t-t-u" | |
+2 letters: commutating, outcatching, outcheating, outmatching, outwatching. | |
+3 letters: conglutinate. | |
+4 letters: anticoagulant, cocultivating, conglutinated, conglutinates, counteracting, gesticulation, outdistancing. | |
+5 letters: anticoagulants, centrifugation, conglutinating, conglutination, congratulating, congratulation, counterstating, gesticulations, subcontracting. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 63 74 69 6E 67 4F 75 74 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100011 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01001111 01110101 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A c t i n g   O u t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0063 0074 0069 006E 0067 004F 0075 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3569867580732498786 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Photo Album 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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