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▪ I. interact, n.|ˈɪntərˌækt|
[f. inter- 3 + act n., after F. entr'acte in same sense.]
The interval between two acts of a play; a short performance between two acts, an interlude; hence, an intermediate employment. attrib.
1750Chesterfield Lett. (1774) I. clxxxvii. 563 Play..is only the ‘inter-acts’ of other amusements. 1831Soc. Life Eng. & For. 181 The Aminta of Tasso, a complete pastoral drama, accompanied by choruses and interacts of music. 1873E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 360 The Choruses..still serving to carry on the Subject of the Story in the way of Inter-act. 1908Daily Chron. 3 July 3/5 At the ‘private’ or roofed theatres, the performance of interact music was the rule. 1909Morning Leader 29 May 4/6 At the ‘private theatres’, such as the Blackfriars, they not only had interacts but interact music.
▪ II. interact, v.|ɪntərˈækt|
[inter- 1 b.]
intr. To act reciprocally, to act on each other.
1839Bailey Festus xviii. (1852) 238 Is it not a fact That saints and demons ofttimes interact? 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Lit. Wks. (Bohn) II. 115 The two..styles of mind..are ever in counterpoise, interacting mutually. 1871Tyndall Fragm. Sc. (1879) II. vi. 83 The grain and the substances which surround it interact. 1967M. Argyle Psychol. Interpersonal Behaviour viii. 144 Children and adolescents are very limited in their social techniques, and may be able to interact with other children, and parents, but not with other adults... Most mental patients apart from schizophrenics are able to interact, but are much less successful in forming permanent relationships. 1972Jrnl. Social Psychol. LXXXVII. 7 Very few Ss [sc. subjects] left their chair in order to interact with E [sc. the examiner]; those who did were ignored.
Hence interˈacting ppl. a., acting reciprocally.
1851–5G. Brimley Ess., Tennyson 63 A more complex machinery of interacting events. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets ix. 295 A play of Shakspere or Goethe overwhelms us by the force and frequence of combined and interacting motives. |