performance

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  1. noun The act of performing or the state of being performed.
  2. noun The act or style of performing a work or role before an audience.
  3. noun The way in which someone or something functions: The pilot rated the airplane's performance in high winds.
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  • The only negative in the performance was the red card issued to Michael Bradley, the coach's son, for a late, two-footed tackle. —  AroundTheCapitol.com
  • Online discussing problems, participation in online conferences and discussion, regular monitoring and assessment of their performance are the prerequisite features of online mathematics tutorials. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Essentially we're claiming the performance is the prop. No, the prop simply facilitates the performance if you have the ability, the intellectual ability, to step beyond the banal. —  LT Saloon
  • At the other end, Connection coach Stuart Charles-Fevrier and owner David John Williams have regularly sung the praises of versatile, attacking midfielder Hughton Hector and his performance was a useful cocktail of incisive, diagonal passes and sharp pivots around opponents. —  TrinidadExpress Today's News
  • Playing the daughter of one of the trapped miners, sophomore Lauren Hunt agreed that her performance was also demanding. —  The Gazette-Enterprise: News
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/pərˈfɔrməns/
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