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faciō — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • act verb To do something; to take action.
  • celebrate verb To mark a special event or achievement with enjoyment, often through some kind of gathering or ritual.
  • do verb To perform or carry out an action or task.
  • go verb To move or travel from one place toward another.
  • guess verb To form an answer or opinion without being sure it's correct.
  • have verb To own or possess something.
  • make verb To create, produce, or build something.

Senses

faciō is used for these senses in English:

  • ize Used to form verbs from nouns or adjectives, especially similative verbs
  • act (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
  • 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.
  • celebrate (transitive) To honour by rites, by ceremonies of joy and respect, or by refraining from ordinary business; to observe duly.
  • do (transitive) To perform; to execute.
  • guess (chiefly, US) to suppose, to imagine (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
  • make (obsolete) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; often in the phrase to meddle or make.

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.

celebrate — full definition

  1. verb To mark a special event or achievement with enjoyment, often through some kind of gathering or ritual.
  2. verb To honour someone or something publicly, often through a formal or ceremonial act.

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