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Performance   /pərfˈɔrməns/   Listen
Performance

noun
1.
A dramatic or musical entertainment.  Synonym: public presentation.  "The play ran for 100 performances" , "The frequent performances of the symphony testify to its popularity"
2.
The act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment.  "An inspired performance of Mozart's C minor concerto"
3.
The act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it.  Synonyms: carrying into action, carrying out, execution.  "Experience generally improves performance"
4.
Any recognized accomplishment.  "When Roger Maris powered four home runs in one game his performance merits awe"
5.
Process or manner of functioning or operating.  Synonyms: functioning, operation.  "The plane's operation in high winds" , "They compared the cooking performance of each oven" , "The jet's performance conformed to high standards"



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"Performance" Quotes from Famous Books



... exempt you from the performance of this sacred duty, Josepha," replied the empress firmly. "It is a time-honored custom of our family, that the princesses of Austria, who marry kings, should take leave of the graves of their ancestors. I cannot release the Queen of Naples from her duty. ...
— Joseph II. and His Court • L. Muhlbach
... Peasley," as he was called in Swan Creek, an incurable practical joker, loved and shunned by all who knew him. He asked me as he came up if I were "going to the show." Thinking it was best to dissemble, I told him I was, but said nothing of my intention to stop the performance; I thought it would be a lesson to That Jim to let him walk fifteen miles for nothing, for it was clear that he was going, too. Still, I wished he would go on ahead or drop behind. But he could not very well ...
— The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8 - Epigrams, On With the Dance, Negligible Tales • Ambrose Bierce
... peculiar uplifting of the brows which spoke a brittle humor, she looked at the floor as if selecting a place for the performance. ...
— The Last Shot • Frederick Palmer
... to be throwing her very soul into the performance. Passers- by in Crane Court paused, regarded the first-floor windows of the publishing and editorial offices of Good Humour with troubled ...
— Tommy and Co. • Jerome K. Jerome
... been allotted to Writers who seem very little acquainted with the Nature of their Task, or very negligent about the Performance. They rarely afford any other Account than might be collected from publick Papers, and imagine themselves writing a Life when they exhibit a chronological Series of Actions or Preferments; and so ...
— The Vanity of Human Wishes (1749) and Two Rambler papers (1750) • Samuel Johnson


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