{
  "id": "act.deed",
  "term": "act",
  "sense": "deed",
  "pos": "verb",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 3,
  "arena": "lexicon",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "do something",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "change.process",
      "interaction.process"
    ],
    "interaction": "as change happen and interaction happen together",
    "novel_properties": [
      "purposeful change",
      "intended outcome"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 2011 Tohoku earthquake shifted Japan's coastline by up to 4.4 meters in seconds.",
      "domain": "geophysics"
    },
    {
      "text": "CRISPR-Cas9 edits DNA at precise locations in human cells, altering gene function.",
      "domain": "molecular biology"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Bitcoin network validates and records transactions every 10 minutes in a public ledger.",
      "domain": "cryptoeconomics"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "action.deed",
      "type": "is-a",
      "note": "act is a kind of action"
    },
    {
      "id": "work.effort",
      "type": "enables",
      "note": "act enables effort"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "active.behavioral",
    "advertising.commercial",
    "commission.transaction",
    "council.governance",
    "division.process",
    "doing.activity",
    "environment.surroundings",
    "erosion.process",
    "friendly.social",
    "leisure.psychological",
    "methods.process",
    "model.representation",
    "sample.material",
    "seize-the-day.window",
    "skill.ability",
    "submit.administrative",
    "thank.social",
    "thanks.social",
    "trust.reliance",
    "try.effort",
    "welcome.greeting",
    "worship.emotional"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "act",
    "acted",
    "acting",
    "acts"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-act.deed"
}