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# actor

«actor» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who plays a part in a play, a show or a film** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/actor/#m1)

2) An actor can be any person or group that takes part in something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/actor/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/actor/#x1)
- Each actor needs 3 costumes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/actor/#x2)
- 5 actors left the show. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/actor/#x3)
- The actors sold 240 tickets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/actor/#x4)
- The actor learned all his lines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/actor/#x5)
- She wants to be an actor when she grows up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/actor/#x6)
- The voice actor plays a talking cat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/actor/#x7)
- All the actors bowed at the end. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/actor/#x8)
- A good actor can make you cry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/actor/#x9)
- The actors wore masks on stage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/actor/#x10)
- "One can always get actors if one makes use of what one has," observed grandpapa. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/actor/#x11)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/47-viral-rumours-cancellations-fakes-and-apologies/20/)
- [Vivid example: in Dublin, Nan reads that an old actor has died.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/48-famous-people-are-people/3/)
- [Voice actors can sound much younger or older than they are, and many children's voices in cartoons are done by adults.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/24-voices-sound-and-music-in-films-and-cartoons/5/)
- [In some films, especially older musicals, a different singer recorded the songs for the actor; today many actors sing for themselves.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/24-voices-sound-and-music-in-films-and-cartoons/11/)
- [Wires can hold actors up safely, and the wires are removed later by computer.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/25-special-effects-and-stunts/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «actor» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/actor/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.