Act and Instruction

Act

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

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

Nearby Words: acting, acted

Instruction noun - A statement of what to do that must be obeyed by those concerned.

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Act and instruction are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Act" instead a noun "Instruction".

physical	physical act	physical instruction
musical	musical act	musical instruction
particular	particular act	particular instruction
similar	similar act	similar instruction
Other adjectives: original, single, simple, real, tough, little, magic, final, next, last, ventriloquist.

In the second act of Waiting for Godot, Vladimir tells Estragon that they should just stop talking and act...and spends the next page repeating this instruction.

Source: Hypocritical Humor / Theatre
There's usually two portions to a machine code, the operation code (opcode), which is the instruction, and the operand(s), which is the datum or data that act on this instruction.

Source: Useful Notes / Programming Language

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