näytellä — meaning in English

English meaning

• act verb To do something; to take action.
• enact verb To officially pass a bill into law.
• perform verb To carry out an action or task.
• play verb To engage in an activity purely for fun or recreation.
• sell verb To hand over goods or services to someone in exchange for money.

Senses

näytellä is used for these senses in English:

• act (intransitive, mathematics, construed with on or upon, of an algebraic structure) To possess an action onto (some other structure). Examples include the group action of a group on a set, the action of a ring on a module by scalar multiplication, and the action of a group or algebra on a vector space via a representation.
• perform (by extension, transitive) To behave theatrically so as to give the impression of (a quality, character trait, etc.); to feign.
• play (transitive, intransitive) To perform in (a sport); to participate in (a game).
• sell (transitive, professional wrestling, slang) To pretend that an opponent's blows or maneuvers are causing legitimate injury; to act.

act — full definition

1. verb To do something; to take action.
2. verb To perform a role in a play, film, or show.
3. verb To behave in a particular way.
4. noun Something done; a deed.
5. noun A law passed by a legislative body.

enact — full definition

1. verb To officially pass a bill into law.
2. verb To perform or act out a role or scene.

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