Meaning of Interact | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A short act or piece between others, as in a play; a break between acts.
   dated
2. Intermediate employment or time.
   obsolete
3. A pair or series of acts involving more than one person.

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Examples

“1912, William Archer, London: Chapman & Hall, Chapter 8, pp. 108-109, […] the flight of time is best indicated by an interact. When the curtain is down, the action on the stage⟳ remains, as it were, in suspense. The audience lets its attention revert to the affairs of real life; and it is quite willing, when the mimic world is once more revealed, to suppose⟳ that any reasonable space of time has elapsed […]”

“The play⟳ gives detailed descriptions of the instruments used in the interact music […]”

“1750, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Letters Written […] to His Son, London: P. Dodsley, 10th edition, 1792, Volume 2, Letter 219, p. 344, Play⟳, in good company, is only play⟳, and not gaming; not deep, and consequently not dangerous nor dishonourable. It is only the inter-acts of other amusements.”

“Inasmuch as it is impossible to analyze the contents of an entire interpersonal relationship, it is helpful to conceptualize a given communication event as consisting of a series of subevents. Any one subevent may be pulled out as a basic unit for analysis in the study⟳ of interpersonal communication; this basic unit may then be called an interact. […] each interact is a distinctive attempt⟳ to conceal, repeat⟳, or disclose information and/or to influence⟳ the relationship.”

“As they listened to groups communicate, Fisher and his coworkers noted what each group member said (labeled a speech act) and how the next person responded. This pairing of speech acts is called an interact.”

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