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Actual and perceived similarity for each pair were calculated from questionnaire responses assessed before the event and after each date. Data revealed that perceived, but not actual, similarity significantly predicted romantic liking in this speed-dating context. Furthermore, perceived similarity was a far weaker predictor of attraction. Actual: adjective existing in fact or reality. Not false or apparent. Actual and actually - English Grammar Today - a reference to written and spoken English grammar and usage - Cambridge Dictionary. Another way to say No Actual? Synonyms for No Actual (other words and phrases for No Actual).

Not Actual (N)– The exact distance the vehicle has traveled is unknown. The reading that displays on the odometer does not reflect the actual mileage and should not be relied on. The title issued in the new customer’s name will show an odometer brand of “NOT ACTUAL”.

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ac·tu·al

(ăk′cho͞o-əl)adj.1.

actual

(ˈæktʃʊəl) adj

ac•tu•al

(ˈæk tʃu əl)
adj.

actual

1. 'actual'

You use actual to emphasize that the place, object, or person you are talking about is the real or genuine one.

Be Careful!
You only use actual in front of a noun. You do not say that something 'is actual'.

2. 'current' and 'present'

You do not use 'actual' to describe something that is happening, being done, or being used at the present time. Instead you use current or present.

Adj.	1.	actual - presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible; 'the predicted temperature and the actual temperature were markedly different'; 'actual and imagined conditions' potential, possible - existing in possibility; 'a potential problem'; 'possible uses of nuclear power'
2.	actual - taking place in reality; not pretended or imitated; 'we saw the actual wedding on television'; 'filmed the actual beating' real, existent - being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory; 'real objects'; 'real people; not ghosts'; 'a film based on real life'; 'a real illness'; 'real humility'; 'Life is real! Life is earnest!'- Longfellow
3.	actual - being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something; 'her actual motive'; 'a literal solitude like a desert'- G.K.Chesterton; 'a genuine dilemma' true - consistent with fact or reality; not false; 'the story is true'; 'it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true'- B. Russell; 'the true meaning of the statement'
4.	actual - existing in act or fact; 'rocks and trees...the actual world'; 'actual heroism'; 'the actual things that produced the emotion you experienced' real, existent - being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory; 'real objects'; 'real people; not ghosts'; 'a film based on real life'; 'a real illness'; 'real humility'; 'Life is real! Life is earnest!'- Longfellow
5.	actual - being or existing at the present moment; 'the ship's actual position is 22 miles due south of Key West' current - occurring in or belonging to the present time; 'current events'; 'the current topic'; 'current negotiations'; 'current psychoanalytic theories'; 'the ship's current position'

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adjective

actual

adjective2. Not counterfeit or copied:

actual

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actual

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actual

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actual

[ˈæktjʊəl]adj (amount, result) → reale, vero/a, effettivo/a; (example) → concreto/a
in actual fact → in realtà

Not Actual Mileage

what were his actual words? → cosa ha dettoesattamente?

actual

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Not Actual Size

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There’s an entire subgenre of American humor derived from carefully placing the punchline into the question itself. For example, the answer to the legendary not-joke “Who’s buried at Grant’s Tomb?” is, quite obviously, “Grant.”

You’d be forgiven, then, for answering the question “What size is a 2-by-4?” with “2 inches by 4 inches.” But it turns out, you’d be answering this particular riddle wrong. Two-by-fours are actually 1.5-by-3.5s. The same is true for most other wood cuts, which are all systematically smaller than their names would suggest. Here’s why.

“Two by four is a colloquialism,” says Mark Stephens, the vice president of Woodworkers Source, an Arizona-based company. The phrase 2-by-4 “rolls off your tongue a helluva lot easier” than the truth, he says. But the origins of the 2-by-4 are more complicated than an old-timey lumberjack deciding to round up.

To create a beam or plank of wood, one must start by chopping down a tree. “And then you cut that tree up into chunks” called cants, according to Stephens. “[A tree] is round, but saws cut straight,” Stephens continues. “A cant is the biggest piece you can get out of a log.”

Those cants, just moments ago part of a living tree, are moist. And moist wood—called “green lumber”—is prone to bending and warping. It’s also likely full of bugs. So lumber producers season their wood. A typical plank is air dried on site, cut up into boards, and dried again. Sometimes, the material is run through a wood kiln. Softwoods like pine, which is common for beams and planks, are baked below 240 degrees.

This drying effect isn’t permanent. Wood is hygroscopic, so it adjusts its internal moisture to match the external moisture of its environment. But, Stephens says, “drying gets a lot of those problems out of the way.” By speeding up the process, manufacturers cut down the time it takes to turn a tree into a plank. What’s more, by accelerating a piece of wood’s natural warping process, the lumber industry can deal with any inconsistencies before it gets to you, the consumer. Additionally, heating helps remove bugs and other detritus.

Through the drying process, the boards naturally shrink, as moisture leaves the beams. The real shrinkage, however, comes when the “rough-sawn material” is sent to a planer, which rubs the surface of the wood down into the smooth shapes you can purchase at a hardware store. Without the rough edges, what went in as a 2-by-4 planks of rough-sawn wood is now a tongue-tripping 1.5-by-3.5, having lost approximately ¼-inch on all sides to the planer and drying processes. “Once upon a time, 2-by-4s really were 2 inches by 4 inches,” Stephens says. But these days, the blocks are smaller, prettier, and hopefully a little more environmentally resilient by the time they’re up for sale.

The 2-by-4 moniker is certainly a misnomer, but the implications are negligible. While our popular lexicon hasn’t caught up (and probably never will), the legislation regulating wood certainly has.

Back in the 1920s, then-Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover began pushing for the first American wood sizing regulations. Previously, wood sizes were determined locally, so the mishmash of rules meant a builder might not be purchasing the same length plank if one batch came from Maine, another from Minnesota. But Hoover’s standards were enacted nearly a century ago and refined over the intervening decades. Plus, it’s certainly in the best interest of large companies like Home Depot and Lowe’s to maintain standards across their stores.

So don’t fret. The next bundle of 2-by-4s you pick up in the hardware store are certain to be the exact same size: 1.5-by-3.5 inches.