Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To begin and carry through to completion; do.
- intransitive verb To take action in accordance with the requirements of; fulfill.
- intransitive verb To enact (a feat or role) before an audience.
- intransitive verb To give a public presentation of; present.
- intransitive verb To function or accomplish something as expected or required.
- intransitive verb To yield a return on investment.
- intransitive verb To portray a role or demonstrate a skill before an audience.
- intransitive verb To present a dramatic or musical work or other entertainment before an audience.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To effect; execute; accomplish; achieve; carry on or out; do: as, to
perform , an act of kindness or a deed of daring; to perform a day's labor; to perform an operation in surgery or in arithmetic. - To carry out or do whatever is demanded or required by (duty, a vow, etc.); execute the provisions, commands, or requirements of; put in execution; discharge; fulfil: as, to
perform one's duty; to perform a vow; to perform a covenant. - To render; do.
- To act or represent on or as on the stage: as, to
perform the part of Hamlet. - To make up; constitute; complete.
- To afford; furnish.
- To sing, or render on a musical instrument.
- To act; do or execute something.
- To act a part; go through or complete any work; especially, to sing or play on a musical instrument, represent a character on the stage, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To carry through; to bring to completion; to achieve; to accomplish; to execute; to do.
- transitive verb To discharge; to fulfill; to act up to
- transitive verb To represent; to act; to play; as in drama.
- intransitive verb To do, execute, or accomplish something; to acquit one's self in any business; esp., to represent sometimes by action; to act a part; to play on a musical instrument
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
do something; toexecute . - verb To do something in front of an audience, often in order to entertain it.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb carry out or perform an action
- verb give a performance (of something)
- verb get (something) done
- verb perform a function
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Getting up early is one of the intelligent daily practices that Leaders Without a Title perform with acute consistency.
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They spent the fall touring behind their election-themed single "All Good Reasons" and were asked to play the Obama campaign official pre-debate rally in New York; it's not often a band of 20-somethings without a label perform on a main stage sandwiched between sets by
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Attentive teachers realize that one of the best predictors of how their students will perform is what they had for breakfast, if anything at all.
Rothstein: Why teacher quality can't be only centerpiece of reform
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The only other launch vehicle activity NASA needs to perform is the remaining Shuttle flights.
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But seeing them perform is incredible, if not just for their music, but for the audience's reaction when they cut loose.
Shannon Galpin: Progress in Afghanistan? The Youth Movement in Kabul
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They once again perform the story of a man and a woman who, after stepping into a time machine, are unable to hear a Black Eyed Peas song playing, and decide to ignore the music altogether and foxtrot to an entirely different rhythm while waiting in line for a midnight showing of "Rocky Horror Picture Show."
Margaret Cho is out on 'Dancing with the Stars' while Michael Bolton comes back to sing
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We saw George Carlin perform what would later become his last HBO special.
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Accordingly, the question whether the actual mortgages are likely to perform is relevant, and the mortgage documents are relevant.
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I constantly make the argument on my blog that almost all work we now perform is unnecessary, but it never occurred to me, until that discussion, that this also means there a few consequences to a withdrawal from work entirely.
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Afterwards, however, I drove up to Boston to have dinner with was06066 and his husband, who are so delightful they also make my heart hurt a little, and then was06066 and I abandoned poor Chris and took off to see Buddy Miller, Emmylou Harris, Shawn Colvin, and Patty Griffin perform at the Orpheum.
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