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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
actually
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
really/actually exist
▪ Do you think ghosts really exist?
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
do
▪ Which one actually did the job once rested on speculation.
▪ Often, it happens because good ideas bubble up from employees who actually do the work and deal with the customers.
▪ I'd paint like a zoologist, catching the animals doing things they actually do.
▪ He forces the eye into a double take: did that man actually do that just now?
▪ You do an estimate, and then it might cost a little bit more when you actually do the job.
▪ What he actually does, no one can really define.
▪ We actually did some batches with bad dirt.
exist
▪ This has nothing to do with reference to any particular dog, or even whether dogs actually exist at all.
▪ Does such a thing actually exist?
▪ Spinnys examine the job opportunities that actually exist and the benefits they have to offer.
▪ In the first place, Handy attributes more permanence to the professional core than actually exists.
▪ The car with those number plates actually exists.
▪ The approach to development is dictated by paperwork requirements as opposed to the needs and opportunities which actually exist.
▪ The hierarchy which actually exists bears little resemblance to the way in which the thing actually works.
▪ In Brouwerian logic, one can not deduce from the falsity of the non-existence of some object that the object actually exists!
get
▪ Secondly, fewer players will actually get involved in the rucks and mauls.
▪ Washington, is the kind of place that can actually get you excited about pottery.
▪ Because she has already got £70 of her own money, she will actually get £42.55 income support.
▪ At a couple of points that year, the project actually got axed, and Raskin had to beg more indulgence.
▪ He actually got the adrenalin going, forced the pendulum which had almost stopped to swing again.
▪ In fact, a Longevity magazine survey finds some things actually get better with age.
▪ As a result, the people whose financial position makes it easiest to pay bills actually get the lowest-cost credit.
▪ Then I actually got a job using the law.
go
▪ There was a rather pleasant man, called Chaudhry, who showed worrying signs of having actually gone to Oxford.
▪ Then they roused themselves, surprised that some one was actually going to use the microphone.
▪ For most Atlantans, actually going to the Olympic Games is out of the question.
▪ If memory serves, we actually went into the hall and flipped a coin.
▪ Has anyone ever actually gone over there and had a look at them?
▪ How does the value actually go up or down?
▪ Are we actually going to learn anything from this recent disastrous period?
▪ Two more sections, Trondur said, had broken free in the night and actually gone adrift.
happen
▪ This, surely, was what had actually happened to Adam Verne-Smith.
▪ Like most mythic events, the Six-Day War actually happened, but not quite the way people remember it.
▪ If you are curious about the bombardier beetle, by the way, what actually happens is as follows.
▪ It was an anxiety so consuming that it overshadowed what actually happened once the war came.
▪ They couldn't believe it was all real - that the nightmare was actually happening to them.
▪ What is actually happening is that the United States is being isolated, which is not the same thing.
▪ What people are reporting is not what is actually happening.
make
▪ The prisoners were actually making complete items of furniture, doors, window frames, pottery and jewellery.
▪ For without such a team, it will be hard-if not impossible-to actually make any money.
▪ You must include all payments actually made in those eight calendar weeks.
▪ Most class analysts do not explain in detail how policy decisions are actually made.
▪ In 1959 Navarro Rubio had not only not immediately fallen under suspicion of disloyalty, but had actually made Franco back down.
▪ For now though, all that matters is they got it done, a deal that for both sides actually makes sense.
▪ Pedagogy in this case actually makes the learning task more difficult.
▪ But the company that had actually made and sold the flag was a one-man operation with no resources.
mean
▪ The operation-the abortion-would actually mean killing my child, my new son or daughter.
▪ But the comprehension of what that actually meant was slim.
▪ What it would actually mean is lives that would be-as Hobbes put it-nasty, brutish and short.
▪ Less clear is what the change actually means.
▪ If anything, the more people talk, the less it actually means.
▪ This time he may actually mean it.
▪ What is actually meant by intention is more problematic, and will be approached in stages.
▪ The managers did come to see that acquiring managerial competence actually meant sacrificing some of their technical competence.
see
▪ To actually see crabs scuttling across the floor and live sponges and even real live fish was astonishing.
▪ They looked at the sketch and asked her if she had actually seen the man reach for her purse.
▪ Sometimes I thought they could actually see these people, as they talked.
▪ He had no idea what he would do when he actually saw Tony, but he knew he had to confront him.
▪ You can't actually see the house quite.
▪ You could actually see what was going on.
▪ We can follow gastrulation in the early development of the sea-urchin and actually see the gut forming.
▪ None actually saw the entry of the bolide, but all saw the flash of the explosion.
use
▪ However, problems arise when the author describes how to actually use the gear.
▪ Gore actually used a card issued by the Clinton-Gore campaign, she said.
▪ You could actually use purple, alizarin crimson, you see incredibly pallid complexions with red bits.
▪ The extent to which cells actually use such mechanisms is still being investigated.
▪ Hearers actually use this unclarity as a clue to the speaker's intentions.
▪ Having actually used the booklet reinforces this positive attitude.
▪ It is a genuine two-plus-two, with a set of rear seats you can actually use.
▪ This saves a bit of space and avoids giving a whole profile where only one characteristic is actually used.
want
▪ One thing you might have noticed, though, is that there is only Heather who actually wants to sit next to Gowie.
▪ Jeff Groscost actually wanted the Legislature to determine whether a species was truly endangered before the state enforced federal protections.
▪ The truth is that neither applicant actually wants to issue Switch cards, though Barclays says it is prepared to consider it.
▪ We are willing to eat garbage for lunch because the larder is always empty of foods we actually want.
▪ But what users actually want are reliable electricity services.
▪ Also, it dawned on me, I actually wanted to drive.
▪ It was a delicious fantasy and whatever Ocker actually wanted him for would not spoil it.
work
▪ None of these more ambitious weapons actually work very well and they are sensibly avoided by the military.
▪ Ironically, corporate downsizing may actually work to your advantage.
▪ How do the units actually work?
▪ And that romantic idea had to sustain me through the realities of actually working on the 128K Mac....
▪ Of course it doesn't actually work.
▪ If you actually worked for Jobs, he took time out from preaching the Mac gospel to meddle in your life.
▪ You never know, it may actually work better than you think.
▪ Many actually work in community service projects, which most journalists only write about.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Actually, that was the best part of the whole trip.
▪ Did he actually hit you or just threaten you?
▪ He may look 30, but he's actually 45.
▪ I don't actually remember it all that well.
▪ It turns out that one of the children I thought was a girl was actually a boy.
▪ Unemployment has actually fallen for the past two months.
▪ Well, actually, you still owe me $200.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But don't forget that you only pay interest on the amount you actually borrow.
▪ Consequently these areas are the first to exhibit extra fat and the last to actually reduce.
▪ Of these, only four were actually put on trial by the army, and three were acquitted by military judges.
▪ The little-known sea wasp, in spite of its name, is actually a jellyfish.
▪ The Washington summit actually eliminated major causes of tension, and promised to inaugurate a new world structure.
▪ What actually happened eight thousand to ten thousand years ago to end the hunter-gatherer chapter in human history?
▪ Whether they are actually his desires, or those of the devil, must remain speculation.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Actually

Actually \Ac"tu*al*ly\, adv.

  1. Actively. [Obs.] ``Neither actually . . . nor passively.''
    --Fuller.

  2. In act or in fact; really; in truth; positively.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
actually

early 15c., "in fact, in reality" (as opposed to in possibility), from actual + -ly (2). Meaning "actively, vigorously" is from mid-15c.; that of "at this time, at present" is from 1660s. As an intensive added to a statement and suggesting "as a matter of fact, really, in truth" it is attested from 1762.\n

Wiktionary
actually

adv. 1 (context modal English) In act or in fact; really; in truth; positively. 2 (context obsolete English) actively

WordNet
actually

  1. adv. in actual fact; "to be nominally but not actually independent"; "no one actually saw the shark"; "large meteorites actually come from the asteroid belt" [syn: really]

  2. used to imply that one would expect the fact to be the opposite of that stated; surprisingly; "you may actually be doing the right thing by walking out"; "she actually spoke Latin"; "they thought they made the rules but in reality they were only puppets"; "people who seem stand-offish are in reality often simply nervous" [syn: in reality]

  3. as a sentence modifier to add slight emphasis; "actually, we all help clear up after a meal"; "actually, I haven't seen the film"; "I'm not all that surprised actually"; "she hasn't proved to be too satisfactory, actually"

  4. at the present moment; "the transmission screen shows the picture that is actually on the air"

Wikipedia
Actually

Actually (stylised as Pet Shop Boys, actually.) is the second studio album by English pop duo Pet Shop Boys, released in 1987 by record labels Parlophone (UK) and EMI Manhattan (US and Canada).

Usage examples of "actually".

It is therefore clear that matter had been absorbed which was either actually poisonous or of too stimulating a nature.

Here he reared a continuous rampart with a ditch in front of it, fair-sized forts, probably a dozen in number, built either close behind it or actually abutting on it, and a connecting road running from end to end.

Right now the only one of us tars actually working was Halle, who was chasing down a pool of vomit sicked up by Pael, the Academician, the only non-Navy personnel on the bridge.

Einstein significantly extended this symmetry by showing that the laws of physics are actually identical for all observers, even if they are undergoing complicated accelerated motion.

Intellectual-Principle which actually is the primals and is always self-present and is in its nature an Act, never by any want forced to seek, never acquiring or traversing the remote--for all such experience belongs to soul--but always self-gathered, the very Being of the collective total, not an extern creating things by the act of knowing them.

Karl Acton, rather than simply disappearing, was actually killed by an erupting smoker.

Clarke and Brander about this, neither could remember Acton actually using the machine.

For if it were actually something, that actualized something would not be Matter, or at least not Matter out and out, but merely Matter in the limited sense in which bronze is the matter of the statue.

Another subtle aspect of addiction is that, although it is the first dose that hooks us, the whole process is usually so subtle and gradual that it can take years for us to realize that we are actually hooked.

Actually, as little as I liked the idea of being beholden to Aden at this particular moment, it struck me as a great idea.

The reply of those who opposed the adjournment was that the condition of public affairs did actually tend to revolution, and that instead of fanning the popular excitement by remaining in session, Congress would be thus most wisely allaying the fears which had entered the minds of so large a number of the people.

On February 5th the line was advancing, and on the 6th it was known that De Wet was actually within the angle, the mouth of which was spanned by the British line.

Likewise, a rebate is offered if the advertiser contracts for 12 issues and actually runs advertisements in 14 issues.

Actually the money was in bills, Imperial credits as well as Aenean libras, most of it given him in a wad by Sergeant Astaff before he left Windhome.

The Pope would die and the circus would actually begin with the tawdry tinkle of the hurdy-gurdy and monkeys on chains, the trumpet fanfare of a Fellini movie and the clowns and all the freaks and aerialists joining hands, dancing, capering across the screen.