act as

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
act as
    v 1: function as or act like; "This heap of stones will act as a
         barrier"
    2: pretend to have certain qualities or state of mind; "He acted
       the idiot"; "She plays deaf when the news are bad" [syn:
       {act}, {play}, {act as}]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
27 Moby Thesaurus words for "act as":
      act, act a part, act out, ape, copy, do, do duty, enact, function,
      function as, impersonate, masquerade as, mime, mimic, officiate,
      pantomime, pass for, perform, perform as, personate, play,
      play a part, pose as, pretend to be, serve, take off, work as
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