Definition of Performing

1. Noun. The performance of a part or role in a drama.


Definition of Performing

1. Verb. (present participle of perform) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Performing

1. perform [v] - See also: perform

Lexicographical Neighbors of Performing

performant
performantly
performative
performative utterance
performatives
performativities
performativity
performatory
performaunce
performed
performer
performers
performic
performic acid
performic acid reaction
performing (current term)
performing art
performing artist
performing arts
performs
perfrigeration
perfumatory
perfume
perfumed
perfumeless
perfumelike
perfumer
perfumeries
perfumers
perfumery

Literary usage of Performing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Race Distinctions in American Law by Gilbert Thomas Stephenson (1910)
"PUNISHMENT FOR performing THE CEREMONY A heavy penalty is laid also upon one who ... Arkansas makes anyone performing such a ceremony guilty of a high ..."

2. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1907)
"The view as taken by the Supreme Court that the permission of the performing artist is not required for the broadcasting of gramophone records through the ..."

3. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1920)
"It sometimes happens that one excused by impossibility from performing his promise, especially when the impossibility is due to act of the law, ..."

4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"They represented to Constantine, that, not contented with performing all the duties of a commander, he bad exposed his own person with an excess of valour ..."

5. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1890)
"... or professional use in the arts are such as are more usually employed in the trades and professions for performing the operations incidental thereto. ..."

6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1907)
"Bacteriological and Clinical Examinations to Determine the Value of Modern Procedures in performing Aseptic Gynecological Laparotomies. ..."

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