Act and Convention

Act

Act noun - A performance regularly presented by an individual or group.

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Convention and act are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Convention" instead a noun "Act".

Nearby Words: acting, acted

Convention noun - A coming together of a number of persons for a specified purpose.

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Act and convention are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Act" instead a noun "Convention".

old	old act	old convention
musical	musical act	musical convention
particular	particular act	particular convention
similar	similar act	similar convention
Other adjectives: common, single, popular, actual, entire, big, evil, criminal, magic, new, major, mere, next, biggest.

Similarly, at a recent convention, Vic Mignogna took five minutes out of a panel to give an unsolicited semi-rant about how a voice actor's job is to act, not to do impressions.

Source: Mis Blamed / Anime and Manga
It's usually easy, but in the episode at the Supernatural convention, cosplayers have to actually act as the ghost hunters they're dressed as.

Source: Hard To Light Fire
Especially in the middle of a convention of doll collectors who act like Klingons.

Source: Western Animation / Dexter's Laboratory

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