Meaning of PERFORMANCE
| Pronunciation: | | pur'formuns
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- [n] any recognized accomplishment; "they admired his performance under stress"; "when Roger Maris powered four home runs in one game his performance merits awe"
- [n] the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it; "they criticised his performance as mayor"; "experience generally improves performance"
- [n] the act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment; "we congratulated him on his performance at the rehearsal"; "an inspired performance of Mozart's C minor concerto"
- [n] a dramatic or musical entertainment; "they listened to ten different performances"; "the play ran for 100 performances"; "the frequent performances of the symphony testify to its popularity"
- [n] process or manner of functioning or operating; "the power of its engine determine its 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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| | Synonyms: | | carrying into action, carrying out, execution, functioning, operation, public presentation |
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| | See Also: | | accomplishment, achievement, act, acting, action, benefit, bit, coda, concert, conjuration, conjuring trick, deception, demonstration, dramatic performance, dramatic production, encore, extemporisation, extemporization, finale, histrionics, illusion, improvisation, interpretation, juggle, juggling, last hurrah, legerdemain, magic, magic trick, mechanics, mechanism, musical performance, number, officiation, one-night stand, overachievement, performing, pianism, play reading, playacting, playing, premiere, presentation, presentment, process, program, programme, recital, rendering, rendering, rendition, rendition, representation, routine, show, song and dance, specific performance, spectacular, swan song, theatrical, theatrical performance, trick, turn, underachievement, world premiere | |
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| | Definition: | | Performance
This Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell classic, starring Mick Jagger, James Fox, and Anita Pallenberg was made in 1968, but not released until 1970. When the backers saw the directors` cut, they were so shocked by its sexual explicitness and formal radicalism that attempts were made to destroy the negative. Performance melds the worlds of rock music and street violence, reality and fantasy, politics and art. Having conducted extensive interviews with surviving participants, Colin MacCabe presents the definitive history of the making of Performance as well as a new interpretation of its consummate artistry. more details ... |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Per*form"ance\, n.
The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action;
execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by
action; as, the performance of an undertaking of a duty.
Promises are not binding where the performance is
impossible. --Paley.
2. That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or
carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat;
esp., an action of an elaborate or public character. ``Her
walking and other actual performances.'' --Shak. ``His
musical performances.'' --Macaulay.
Syn: Completion; consummation; execution; accomplishment;
achievement; production; work; act; action; deed;
exploit; feat.
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| | Related Terms: | | accomplished fact, accomplishment, accordance, achievement, acquittal, acquittance, act, acta, acting, action, adherence, administration, adventure, agency, aping, appearance, attainment, baccalaureate service, band concert, behavior, benefit, bill, blow, bringing to fruition, buffoonery, business, cantando, care, carrying out, celebration, ceremonial, ceremony, chamber concert, characterization, commencement, commission, completion, compliance, concert, conduct, conformance, conformity, consummation, convocation, coup, dealings, debut, deed, demeanor, demilegato, demonstration, deportment, direction, discharge, dispatch, display, doing, doings, driving, dumb show, effectiveness, effectuation, efficacy, effort, embodiment, empty formality, enacting, enactment, endeavor, engagement, enterprise, entertainment, execution, exercise, exercises, exhibit, exhibition, exploit, exposition, exposure, expression, fait accompli, farewell performance, feat, fingering, flesh show, formal, formality, fruition, fulfillment, function, functioning, gag, gest, gig, glissando, go, graduation, graduation exercises, ham, hammy acting, hand, handiwork, handling, heed, heeding, hoke, hokum, imitation, impersonation, implementation, inaugural, inauguration, incarnation, initiation, interpretation, intonation, job, keeping, legato, liturgy, management, maneuver, manipulation, masquerade, measure, mezzo staccato, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, mission accomplished, move, mummery, musical performance, musical program, music-making, observance, observation, occupation, office, opening, operancy, operation, ostentation, overacting, overproduction, overt act, pantomime, pantomiming, parlando, passage, patter, performing, perpetration, personation, personification, philharmonic, Philharmonic concert, pianism, pizzicato, play, playacting, playing, pop concert, pops, popular concert, portrayal, posing, practice, premiere, presentation, presentment, proceeding, production, productiveness, program, program of music, projection, prom, promenade concert, realization, recital, religious ceremony, rendering, rendition, repercussion, representation, res gestae, respect, responsibility, retrospective, rite, rite de passage, rite of passage, ritual, rubato, running, satisfaction, scene, service, service of music, show, showing, slapstick, slur, solemnity, solemnization, spiccato, staccato, stage business, stage directions, stage presence, stage presentation, steering, step, stroke, stunt, success, swan song, symphony concert, taking a role, theatrical performance, thing, thing done, touch, tour de force, transaction, tryout, turn, undertaking, unfolding, unfoldment, unveiling, varnishing day, vernissage, work, working, workings, works |
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