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Actual

adjective

Presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible. Synonym: existent. "Actual and imagined conditions" Antonym: potential.

Taking place in reality; not pretended or imitated. "Filmed the actual beating"

Being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something. Synonyms: genuine, literal, real. "A literal solitude like a desert" , "A genuine dilemma"

Existing in act or fact. Synonym: factual. "Actual heroism" , "The actual things that produced the emotion you experienced"

Being or existing at the present moment.

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... perfected the plan in 1912. At the same time the actual work of preparing the site was completed with the filling of the tide-land portions by hydraulic dredgers and the removal of the standing buildings. In the same year the department chiefs were named and began their work. John McLaren, for many years Superintendent ...

— The Jewel City • Ben Macomber

... all his life!" said Peg fiercely. "To write me mother that—and she dyin'! Faith I'd like to see him some day—just meet him—and tell him—" she stopped, her little fingers clenched into a miniature fist. The hot colour was in her cheeks and she stamped her small foot in actual rage. "I'd like to meet him some ...

— Peg O' My Heart • J. Hartley Manners

... was limping, that he seemed in actual pain; he was anxious to know how this was, yet he did not say so. He asked rather if Robert thought that the old man had consciously awakened from his trance of expectation, and they both, in spite of all that pressed, stooped with a lantern some one had lit to look again at the dead face. ...

— What Necessity Knows • Lily Dougall

... used for the test. Take 50 c.c. of it; tint faintly yellow with methyl-orange and titrate with normal acid till the liquor acquires a permanent reddish tint. In the case of the purer samples of cyanide the quantity of acid used will correspond exactly with that required to neutralise the actual quantity of cyanide present as determined by the assay with nitrate of silver. The less pure samples will show an excess of alkalinity because of the presence of sodium carbonate or of ...

— A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. • Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob Beringer

... self-fertilised. The self-fertilised plants had smaller and paler green leaves than the crossed. All the plants in the two rows were afterwards cut down and weighed. The twenty crossed plants weighed 65 ounces, and twenty self-fertilised (by calculation from the actual weight of the thirty-two self-fertilised plants) weighed 26.25 ounces; or as 100 to 40. Therefore the crossed plants did not exceed in weight the self-fertilised plants in nearly so great a degree as those growing in the pots, owing probably to ...

— The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom • Charles Darwin

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