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Definition of Perform
1. Verb. Carry out or perform an action. "She did a little dance"
Specialized synonyms: Click Off, Carry, Pipe Up, Declaim, Recite, Serenade, Cut Corners, Stunt, Cut, Blaze Away, Scamp, Churn Out, Premier, Premiere, Star, Appear, Practice, Practise, Rehearse, Ad-lib, Extemporise, Extemporize, Improvise, Improvize, Interpret, Render, Conduct, Direct, Lead, Make
Derivative terms: Doer, Executant, Execution, Performance
2. Verb. Perform a function. "Who will perform the wedding?"
3. Verb. Give a performance (of something). "Did he perform his major works over a short period of time?"; "We performed a popular Gilbert and Sullivan opera"
Specialized synonyms: Barnstorm, Barnstorm, Interlude, Grandstand, Solo, Play Out, Underperform, Sight-read, Sightread, Rap, Give, Concertise, Concertize, Play, Debut, Audition, Try Out, Act, Play, Playact, Roleplay, Play, Conduct
Generic synonyms: Re-create
Derivative terms: Performance, Performer, Performing
4. Verb. Get (something) done. "I did my job"
Generic synonyms: Accomplish, Action, Carry Out, Carry Through, Execute, Fulfil, Fulfill
Specialized synonyms: Overachieve, Turn, Underachieve, Underperform, Misdo, Do One's Best, Give Full Measure, Give One's Best, Go All Out, Ply
Derivative terms: Doer
Definition of Perform
1. v. t. To carry through; to bring to completion; to achieve; to accomplish; to execute; to do.
2. 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.
Definition of Perform
1. Verb. To do something; to execute. ¹
2. Verb. To do something in front of an audience, often in order to entertain it. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Perform
1. to begin and carry through to completion [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Perform
Literary usage of Perform
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come by John Bunyan (1879)
"And I believe this upon a double account: First, because God has promised it;
secondly, because he is able to perform it. ..."
2. The Law of Personal Injuries in Mines: Including All Character of Personal by Edward Joseph White (1905)
"Selecting more dangerous way to perform duty. — An employee who has the choice
of two or more ways of doing a given piece of work the one safe and the other ..."
3. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1887)
"And if the party who is to perform his promise first wholly fail to perform, the
other is discharged.1 1. People ?'. Glann, 70 111. 232. ..."
4. The Republic of Plato by Plato (1909)
"... then at length should they range at will and perform no other service, save
as a pastime, those, I mean, who are to live happily and who, after death, ..."
5. The Federalist, on the New Constitution by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1857)
"concession, that " the legislature is free to perform its duties according " to
its own sense of them." He must show that the legislature is, ..."
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