Perform
[pə'fɔːm] or [pɚ'fɔrm]
Definition
(verb.) carry out or perform an action; 'John did the painting, the weeding, and he cleaned out the gutters'; 'the skater executed a triple pirouette'; 'she did a little dance'.
(verb.) give a performance (of something); 'Horowitz is performing at Carnegie Hall tonight'; 'We performed a popular Gilbert and Sullivan opera'.
(verb.) perform a function; 'Who will perform the wedding?'.
Checked by Giselle--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To carry through; to bring to completion; to achieve; to accomplish; to execute; to do.
(v. t.) To discharge; to fulfill; to act up to; as, to perform a duty; to perform a promise or a vow.
(v. t.) To represent; to act; to play; as in drama.
(v. i.) 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; as, the players perform poorly; the musician performs on the organ.
Edited by Everett
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Do, execute, effect, accomplish, achieve, compass, bring about, bring to pass, work out.[2]. Observe, fulfil, meet, discharge, satisfy, complete, adhere to, be faithful to, comply with.
Inputed by Elliot
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Accomplish,[See DO], act, transact, achieve, execute, discharge, fulfil,effect, complete, consummate, enact
ANT:Miss, mar, misperform, misexecute, botch, misenact, misconduct, spoil
Checked by Cindy
Definition
v.t. to do thoroughly: to carry out: to achieve: to act as on the stage.—v.i. to do: to act a part: to play as on a musical instrument.—adj. Perfor′mable capable of being performed: practicable.—ns. Perfor′mance act of performing: a carrying out of something: something done esp. of a public character: a piece of work: an exhibition in a theatre or a place of amusement: an act or action; Perfor′mer one who performs esp. one who makes a public exhibition of his skill: an actor an actress &c.—adj. Perfor′ming doing: trained to perform tricks.
Typist: Phil
Examples
- You must therefore allow me to follow the dictates of my conscience on this occasion, which leads me to perform what I look on as a point of duty. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- As it has a double task to perform, it must be endowed with double force and energy. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- And how do people perform that ceremony of parting, Jane? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- She was only too glad, however, to perform this office for herself. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- There was, in fact, no very hard duty to perform; but a hireling might have found it hard. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It lasted now over a year, and, while it did not keep me in the house, it did interfere greatly with the amount of work I was able to perform. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She had not rummaged her drawers for a month past, and the impulse to perform that operation was now become resistless. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- In the second method both operations are performed on a single machine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- This is only another effect of nature's distillery, and might be performed various ways. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- She performed her promise of being discreet, to admiration. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- But we learn only because after the act is performed we note results which we had not noted before. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Their surgeons understood the use of an?sthetics, and performed some of the most difficult operations known. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He says no more until he has performed his task, which he achieves as Messrs. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And the promise has been performed. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- According to that doctrine, motives deprive us not of free-will, nor take away our power of performing or forbearing any action. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The important feature of this boat was a diver’s compartment, enabling divers to leave the vessel when submerged, for the purpose of operating on wrecks or performing other undersea duties. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Only the most powerful electric furnaces are capable of performing this work. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Holmes stood before us with the air of a conjurer who is performing a trick. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Nowhere was there evidence of a man tilling the fields or performing any of the homely duties of the village. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Neither must they represent slaves, male or female, performing the offices of slaves? Plato. The Republic.
- From the treating and cutting of the raw material, from the outer bound edge, and the band about the body, to the tip of the crown, a machine may be found for performing each separate step. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It is also said that one man to-day, with the aid of a steam engine, performs the work of 120 men in the last century. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- It is used by food manufacturers and performs highly important functions in certain commercial fields. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- By this system each assembler, or operator, performs one operation only, and repeats this operation on every unit passing through the department. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Only a fool performs any act without reason. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- It performs automatically fifteen-sixteenths of the various movements which ordinarily would be performed by hand on a hand machine. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Within certain limits, it performs this function successfully. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Time performs wonders. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
Checker: Osbert