actor
part of speech
noun (actor, actors; also actress for a woman, though «actor» is used for all)
meaning for a pupil
1) An actor is a person who plays a part in a play, a show or a film. tree →
2) An actor can be any person or group that takes part in something. tree →
sense in the lessons
people counted in a play or film; sometimes a share of tickets or pay; in drama class, actors learn lines and roles; phrases «lead actor», «voice actor», «cast of actors»
examples
- The play has 12 actors. tree →
- Each actor needs 3 costumes. tree →
- 5 actors left the show. tree →
- The actors sold 240 tickets. tree →
- The actor learned all his lines. tree →
- She wants to be an actor when she grows up. tree →
- The voice actor plays a talking cat. tree →
- All the actors bowed at the end. tree →
- A good actor can make you cry. tree →
- The actors wore masks on stage. tree →
- "One can always get actors if one makes use of what one has," observed grandpapa. tree →
note
Just a thing counted; «each actor» before a number marks a rate per actor, so the total is often a product. Today «actor» is used for men and women. Actors pretend; what happens on screen is not real.
In the corpora
- Young famous people, like teenage TV actors, deserve even more privacy, because they are still children.
- Vivid example: in Dublin, Nan reads that an old actor has died.
- Voice actors can sound much younger or older than they are, and many children's voices in cartoons are done by adults.
- In some films, especially older musicals, a different singer recorded the songs for the actor; today many actors sing for themselves.
- Wires can hold actors up safely, and the wires are removed later by computer.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «actor» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.