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ac·tor  
  Audio Help     /ˈæk tər / Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation [ak -ter ] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation –noun 1. a person who acts in stage plays, motion pictures, television broadcasts, etc.

2. a person who does something; participant.

[Origin: 1350–1400; ME āctor, equiv. to āg- (see act ) + -tor -tor ]

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Ac·tor  
  Audio Help     /ˈæk tər / Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation [ak -ter ] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation –noun Classical Mythology . a brother of King Augeas, sometimes believed to be the father, by Molione, of Eurytus and Cteatus.

Compare Moliones .

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A theatrical performer.
One who takes part; a participant: "France, Britain . . . and any other external actors now involved . . . in the affairs of the continent" (Helen Kitchen).
Law One, such as the manager of a business, who acts for another.

[Middle English actour , doer , probably from Latin āctor , from āctus , past participle of agere , to drive, do ; see ag- in Indo-European roots.]

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actor  
1382, "an overseer, a plaintiff," from L. actor "an agent or doer," from stem of agere (see act ). Sense of "one who performs in plays" is 1581, originally applied to both men and women. Actress "female stage player" is from 1700.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper

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actor noun 1.  a theatrical performer  2.  a person who acts and gets things done; "he's a principal actor in this affair"; "when you want something done get a doer"; "he's a miracle worker" 

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ˈactor noun — feminine also ˈactress
a performer in a play

Arabic: مُمَـثِّـل مَسْرَحِي
Chinese (Simplified): 演员
Chinese (Traditional): 演員
Czech: herec
Danish: skuespiller
Dutch: acteur
Estonian: näitleja
Finnish: näyttelijä
French: acteur, *-trice
German: der, *die Schauspieler(in)
Greek: ηθοποιός
Hungarian: színész
Icelandic: leikari, leikkona
Indonesian: pemain, aktor, aktris
Italian: attore, attrice

Japanese: 俳優
Latvian: aktieris
Lithuanian: aktorius
Norwegian: skuespiller
Polish: aktor
Portuguese (Brazil): ator
Portuguese (Portugal): actor
Romanian: actor, actriţă
Russian: актёр
Slovak: herec, herečka
Slovenian: igralec
Spanish: actor; actriz
Swedish: skådespelare
Turkish: aktör

See also: act , act as , act on , act on behalf of / act for , acting , in the act (of) , put on an act

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Actor language An object-oriented language for Microsoft Windows written by Charles Duff of the Whitewater Group ca. 1986. It has Pascal /C -like syntax . Uses a token-threaded interpreter . Early binding is an option. ["Actor Does More than Windows", E.R. Tello, Dr Dobb's J 13(1):114-125 (Jan 1988)]. (1994-11-08)

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actor 1. In object-oriented programming, an object which exists as a concurrent process. 2. In Chorus , the unit of resource allocation. (1994-11-08)

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Actor Ac"tor\, n. [L. actor, fr. agere to act.] 1. One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer. 2. A theatrical performer; a stageplayer. After a well graced actor leaves the stage. --Shak. 3. (Law) (a) An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes. --Jacobs. (b) One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or complainant.

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An 'actor' or 'actress' (see terminology) is a person who acts in a dramatic
production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that
capacity. The ancient Greek word for an actor, (hypokrites), means literally
"one who interprets";Hypokrites (related to our word for
hypocrite) also means, less often, "to answer" the tragic chorus. See Weimann
(1978, 2).
in this sense, an actor is one who interprets a dramatic
character.This is true whether the character than an actor
plays is based on a real person or a fictional one, even themselves (when the
actor is 'playing themselves,' as in some forms of experimental performance art,
or, more commonly, as in John Malkovich's performance in the film [[Being John
Malkovich]]); to act is to create a character in performance: "The dramatic
world can be extended to include the 'author', the 'audience' and even the
'theatre'; but these remain 'possible' surrogates, not the 'actual' referents as
such" (Elam 1980, 110).

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Weight Loss And Its Effect On Ovarian Cysts

Generally if you have weight loss - unexplained weight loss is always a problem and should be looked into by a doctor. It doesnt necessarily mean that its ovary cancer. But a benign cyst, a functional cyst, any of these cysts that we talked about with the exception of the cancerous cysts which are rare, will not be associated with a weight loss. Obviously if we have pain or anxiety about a tumor or cyst often times thats the cause of the weight loss. As far as weight gain, the weight gain is not because of a cyst. However, in the case of the polycystic ovary its a condition thats sort of related. The cyst doesnt cause the obesity but they seem to be related. And the reason for polycystic ovary disease is unknown. Its multi-factor but again one of the treatments I mentioned was to try to get the patient to loose weight and it often helps the other symptoms.

A lot of women have been sending in questions to obstetrician Christopher Freville in relation to their nutrition and can eating certain types of food or avoiding other types of food have a, any affects on the cysts within their ovaries?

Lets talk nutrition and perhaps we should mention certain types of drugs and what drugs might have an effect.

First of all as far as lets talk about food. Will nutrition help? Nutritions always good. Anybody that says good nutrition is not going to help the body is wrong. However, good nutrition per say is not going to resolve a cyst; its not going to prevent a cyst. Most of these cysts cannot be prevented because theyre functional or theyre the types of tumors or conditions that weve talked about and theyre totally unrelated to diet. The only condition it might be able to help would be the polycystic ovary thats associated with diabetes and obesity, and by proper nutrition, proper diet, eliminate the obesity, decrease the tendency toward diabetes and therefore, hopefully the other symptoms might resolve as well. That would be the only case, I say that nutrition

Now there are, and I will mention one thing because you kindly provided me with a list of questions that youve received from various people. And one, some health food, and this is interesting. I call it health food; well call it health pills. One was Noni- Tahitian. Noni-Tahitian is the Indian mulberry plant. It grows in the South Pacific and like a lot of the natural foods theres a lot of claims around all of these. In fact Noni-Tahitian, this is just an example. One company called Morinda, Inc. was pretty well known. It was 1998. And these can feel like a giant cystic mass, a giant sausage like soft balloon, but these are benign. But sometimes we dont have a way of knowing until we actually get in at the time of surgery. Or, we actually can image it on ultrasound. And most of the time youre going to go in and relieve that hydrosalpinx.

Tubal pregnancies - this is called an ectopic. Once in a while the pregnancy develops in the tube before it makes it down and these conditions are life threatening. Most of them are not, but in the process the tube can fill up with blood and before it ruptures. And this can also appear on ultrasound as a cyst and it can feel like a cyst. Most of the time a pregnancy test will be positive, and when you combine that with the enlarged tube, well youve got your diagnosis and saved an emergency.

Weve talked about endometriosis, that which can be a cyst. Theyre rare types of colon tumors, most of these are solid bowel abscesses, can be sometimes diverticulosis, diverticulitis. You can have abscesses that can feel - most of these, well they can feel, or present like a cyst, and theyre going to be painful. Most ovary cysts in and of themselves are not going to be causing a problem. And there are a couple of other conditions that can be mistaken for a pelvic tumor. Theyre not cysts but Im going to mention them; uterus fibroids or uterine myomas, and pelvic kidneys. The kidney actually migrates during development. A lot of strange stuff happens to us. Were lucky that so many of us are normal. The pelvic kidney sometimes remains in the pelvis and can feel like a tumor until the proper tests are done to identify it as a kidney. So, during the work up process all these things are considered. But, the important thing here, is that cysts themselves, in and of themselves are not going to be a problem or life threatening problem.



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