performper‧form /pəˈfɔːm $ pərˈfɔːrm/ ●●● S3 W2 verb 
Chenier and the band are performing at the Silver Palace tomorrow. The children perform two plays each school year. ► Do not use perform to say what person an actor pretends to be in a play, film etc. Use play: John Wayne played (NOT performed) a Roman soldier in the film.2[transitive] to do something, especially something difficult or useful SYN carry out: Surgeons performed an emergency operation. The official opening ceremony was performed by Princess Margaret.perform a study/experiment/analysis etc An analysis of the survey data was performed.perform a task/job/duty She was fired for not performing the duties outlined in her contract.perform a function/role software that performs a specific function The leadership cannot be expected to perform miracles (=improve a situation in a way that seems impossible).RegisterIn everyday English, people usually say that someone carries out an operation, a study etc rather than use perform:· The operation was carried out by a team of surgeons.3perform well/badly etc a)to work or do something well, badly etc: Many religious schools perform well academically. The team performed poorly on Saturday. b)if a product, business etc performs well or badly, it makes a lot of money or very little money: The economy is performing well.COLLOCATIONS– Meaning 2nounsperform a task/job/duty etc· What skills do you need to perform this task?perform work· Over 6,000 people in our community of 100,000 perform volunteer work.perform an experiment/study etc· Part of the Chemistry exam involves performing an experiment.perform an operation· The surgeon who performed the operation said it had gone well.perform a ceremony· At 3 o'clock, the opening ceremony was performed by the Queen.perform a service· Our troops are performing a remarkable service and a terribly important mission.perform a function/role· The two organizations perform similar functions.perform an action· The children sing and perform the actions to nursery songs.perform miracles (=do things that seem impossible)· I'm prepared to work hard to get the job done but I can't perform miracles.
WORD ORIGINperform
Origin:
1300-1400 Anglo-French performer, from Old French perfournir, from fournir ‘to complete’VERB TABLE
perform
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | perform |
| he, she, it | performs | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | performed |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have performed |
| he, she, it | has performed | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had performed |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will perform |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have performed |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am performing |
| he, she, it | is performing | |
| you, we, they | are performing | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was performing |
| you, we, they | were performing | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been performing |
| he, she, it | has been performing | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been performing |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be performing |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been performing |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Before every concert, she worries about how well she will perform.
- Perez is currently performing in "The Nutcracker."
- Rubin says he will resign when he is no longer able to perform his duties.
- Russell's one-woman show, Shirley Valentine, was first performed by Pauline Collins.
- She still gets very nervous about performing in public.
- Students perform increasingly difficult tasks as the course continues.
- Surgery was performed Friday to correct the heart defects.
- The children perform a Christmas pantomime every year.
- The opera was performed in over 100 cities.
- The operation was performed by a team of surgeons at Addenbrookes Hospital.
- The orchestra will be at the Festival Hall tonight, performing a selection of works by Russian composers.
- The ship's captain performed the wedding ceremony.
- Finally, the trio hits the stage tomorrow night to perform Sun, Moon and Feather.
- In Dianetics, a workmanlike job of clearing away the debris in and around the machine is performed.
- One of the most demanding things for this choir is the physical stamina required to perform for an hour.
- She performed her share of administrative duties efficiently.
- That language can perform varied functions or communicative roles is a commonplace of linguistic thought.
- Whenever a member of her household became ill, she called a medicine woman to perform a magical rite.
- While we aren't ruled by the charts, we do want our songs performed by the right people.
THESAURUS
to do something – used in the following phrases: do your work/homework etc: · It usually takes me a couple of hours to do my homework.do the shopping/cooking/washing etc: · She’s gone to the supermarket to do the shopping.do a test/experiment/some research: · The doctor did some tests.· Fraser spent some time in Egypt doing some archaeological research.· Scientists are doing research on two types of vaccine.do a course: · Have you decided which course you want to do at university?
to do something – used in the following phrases: make a speech: · The prince made a short speech.make a comment/suggestion/joke: · Can I make a suggestion?make a decision: · The committee will meet to make their final decision.make a mistake: · I think someone has made a mistake.
to do something – used in the following phrases: give a talk/speech/lecture: · They’ve asked him to give a talk.give a performance: · The band gave a brilliant performance.
to do something – used in the following phrases: take a test/exam: · Kate’s taking her driving test tomorrow.take a bath/shower: · I think I’ll go and take a shower.take a walk: · Normally, he took a walk in the evenings.
to do something that is a crime, especially a serious crime: commit a crime: · The crime was committed in the early hours of the morning.commit a robbery/murder etc: · Dixon later admitted committing the robbery.
to do something – used in the following phrases: carry out your work: · The violence is making it difficult for firefighters to carry out their work.carry out a task/duty: · He still managed to carry out his duties.carry out a survey/test/some research: · The hospital carries out research into skin diseases.carry out an operation: · The operation was carried out at a hospital in Paris.carry out a threat/promise: · They didn’t carry out their threat to kill the hostages.carry out somebody’s orders/instructions/wishes: · I’m sure I can rely on you to carry out my instructions.
to do something. Perform is more formal than carry out, and is used in the following phrases: perform a task/duty: · The job mostly involves performing administrative tasks.perform an operation: · A team of surgeons performed the operation.
to do something – used in the following phrases: conduct a survey/study/experiment: · They conducted a survey of approximately 2,000 people living in the area.conduct an inquiry/investigation: · The police are conducting an investigation into the cause of the fire.conduct an interview: · Knowing how to conduct a successful interview is a skill.conduct a campaign: · People were unimpressed by the way in which the election campaign was conducted.
to do your work or the things that you usually do, especially when something serious has happened: go about your work/business: · The next day she went about her business as if nothing had happened.
spoken especially British English to start doing something that you should have started already or to continue doing something that you stopped doing for a short time: · I need to get on with my homework.
spoken to be doing something that you think is probably bad, although you do not know exactly what it is: · I’m sure they’re up to something.· What’s Jake up to? He’s been upstairs in his room all day.
Longman Language Activatorto take part in a show, concert, play etc to perform in a play or show: · Before every concert, she worries about how well she will perform.perform a play/show/song etc: · The children perform a Christmas pantomime every year.· Russell's one-woman show, Shirley Valentine, was first performed by Pauline Collins.
to be one of the actors, singers, dancers etc that can be seen performing in a film, play, or show: appear in: · Pavarotti will be appearing in a number of concerts over the summer.· The American actors' union threatened to prevent her from appearing in the New York version of the show.appear as somebody (=play a particular character): · Hopkins will be appearing as Willie Lomax in next week's production.
especially spoken to act in a particular play, film, or television show: · Do you remember Larry Hagman? He used to be in "Dallas".· It's my ambition to be in a film.
to perform without having planned or practised something to play music, give a speech, act on stage etc without having planned or practised what you are going to do: · Modern jazz players like to take a theme and improvise around it.· It was difficult to believe that the whole sketch was improvised.
to say or sing something as part of a public performance or speech without having planned or practised it: · No one could remember the song very well, so we had to ad-lib.· The other actors were thrown into confusion when she started ad-libbing her final speech.
someone who performs in a show, concert, play etc someone who performs in a show, concert etc: · Enrico is impressive both as a performer and a choreographer.· As a jazz performer she is astounding, capable of expressing a broad range of feeling and expression.a seasoned performer (=someone who has been performing for a long time): · Tara is a seasoned performer who started acting at the age of 10.
a professional performer, especially in music, dance, or the theatre: · Many of the artists in the show donated their fees to charity.a recording artist: · The band are not just successful recording artists - they are constantly touring and playing live to sell-out crowds.
to arrange and perform a show, concert, play etc to arrange and perform in a show, concert, play etc: put on something: · The students are putting on an end of term concert.· A special show is being put on to raise money for famine victims in Africa.
to arrange and perform a show, concert, play etc especially one that needs a lot of planning and organization and costs a lot of money: · It cost thousands of pounds to stage the concert, including performers' fees and the hire of equipment.· They staged a magnificent production of "Aida" in the amphitheatre.
informal to arrange and perform a show, concert, play etc: · We're doing "The Merchant of Venice' at the local theater for two weeks.· I've done dozens of shows in the north of England, and the audiences were great!
if an organization such as a theatre presents a show, concert, play etc it provides the money and arranges for it to be performed: · The National Theatre is presenting "King Lear' later this month.· This evening PBS presents the first part of a six-part historical drama about the Civil War.
an occasion on which a play, piece of music etc is performed · The evening performance will begin at 8:00 pm.performance of · There was a performance of "Giselle" in the San Diego State Open Air Theatre.
something that is performed in public to entertain people something that is performed in public to entertain people, usually with music, songs, and dancing: · We went to see a show on Broadway when we were in New York.put on a show: · Every year the theatre puts on a show that runs until the end of January.a one-man show: · Cowan's one-man show opens on April 16th.
a play, film, television programme etc which has been prepared to be performed to the public: · Have you seen the new Shakespeare production at the Arts Center?production of: · He will star in the Los Angeles production of "Phantom of the Opera' this year.put on a production/stage a production: · The Riverside Theatre is used to staging major productions.
a short performance as part of a show which has several different performances in it: · We used to do a comedy act together.· Part of his act involves dressing up as a woman.a circus/mime/juggling act: · He was injured in a circus act that went wrong.
the business of entertaining people with shows, plays, films etc the business of entertaining people with shows, plays, films etc: · Blackpool was where I got my first taste of the world of entertainment.· Frankie is known throughout the entertainment business as an energetic performer.
also showbiz informal the entertainment industry, for example film, television, and popular theatre: · Famous sportsmen and people from the world of showbusiness are among their clients.· Here's Sarah with the latest showbiz gossip.in showbusiness/showbiz: · What made you decide on a career in showbusiness?
when a play, film etc has a particular actor in it if an actor stars in a play or film, he or she is one of the most important actors in it; if a play or film stars an actor, he or she plays one of the most important characters in it: · The film stars Patricia Arquette and is directed by Steven Brill.· Director Jane Campion's latest film, which stars Kate Winslet and Harvey Keitel, was one of the highlights of the New York Film Festival.star in: · Danny Aiello stars in this comedy about New York's first big lottery winner. · Hollywood heart-throb Keanu Reeves is set to star in a true story based on a newspaper article from the Times.
if two or more actors co-star in a play or film, they are equally important actors in it; if a play or film co-stars two or more people, they play the most important characters in it : · The movie co-stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Elle Macpherson and Ben Stiller.co-star in: · Annette Bening co-starred in movies such as 'Valmont', 'Postcards from the Edge' and 'Regarding Henry'.
to act the most important part in a play or film: · Calloway played the lead in the New Federal Theater's production of 'The Louis Armstrong Story'.· He got an unexpected chance to play the lead after the film's original star fell ill.
to act in a film or play, especially as one of the most important actors: · More than 60 youngsters will perform in the play at Old Town Theater in Los Gatos.· Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh appeared together in 'Gone with the Wind'.
if a play or film features an actor, they are in it: · The play features two young actresses.· The original 'Star Trek' series, featuring William Shatner as Capt. Kirk and Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock, lasted three years.
used when saying who is in a play, film etc: · Have you seen 'The Sixth Sense' with Bruce Willis?· Dawson is now producing a stage version of the story with a cast of young actors from New York.
if someone is in a play or film as a particular character, they act the part of that character: · Clint Eastwood was excellent as the strong, silent hero in his many westerns.· Paul McGann will star as a middle-class Jewish lawyer in a new BBC drama called 'Fish'.
to do something · I do half an hour of exercises every morning.· What is Carla doing? She's been in the garage for a half an hour.· Howard did some rapid calculations on the back of an envelope.· Listen, I'm only trying to do my job - don't yell at me.do work/housework/homework etc · She does a lot of work for charity.· I want you to do your homework before you start watching TV.do the washing/cooking/shopping etc · You wash the dishes, and I'll do the drying.do a test/exam/course etc British · He's doing an art course at Wrexham College.
to do something - use this with these words: make an effort/decision/start: · We can't wait any longer. You need to make a decision now.· Archie doesn't even make an effort to help out around the house.make a speech/suggestion/remark/complaint/joke: · At school the other kids always made jokes about my name.· I'd like to make a suggestion if that's all right.· The governor will be making a speech here next week.
: give a talk/speech/performance etc talk, speak, sing, perform etc in front of a group of people: · Mr Banks gave a short talk about his travels in Africa.· Professor Williams will be giving a series of lectures on environmental pollution.· Davis gives a wonderful performance as an 81-year-old man.
to start or continue doing a job - use this when someone does a job in their usual way, or when you are talking about the way they do it: · The old man hummed to himself as he went about his gardening.· I'm thinking about changing careers, but I don't quite know how to go about it.go about doing something: · How would you go about reorganizing the kitchen?go about your business (=continue doing what you were doing or always do): · The next morning, she went about her business as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened.
: perform a duty/operation/task etc to do a duty, operation, or piece of work: · The ship's captain performed the wedding ceremony.· The operation was performed by a team of surgeons at Addenbrookes Hospital.· Students perform increasingly difficult tasks as the course continues.
: conduct an experiment/survey/inquiry etc to do something, especially in order to find out or prove something: · All the children in the class have to conduct their own science experiments.· The committee will conduct a thorough investigation of the bribery charges.· The data comes from a survey conducted by the company last fall.
to do something that you are interested in or enjoy, but not very often or regularly, or not in a very serious way: · When he was younger he used to dabble in astronomy.· Beck has dabbled in poetry over the years, but this is her first published book of poems.
to play music to make music on a musical instrument: · Do you play in an orchestra?· Charles likes to play Celtic music on his flute.play the piano/trumpet/drums etc: · I didn't know you could play the violin.
formal to sing or play music in front of people who have come to listen: · She still gets very nervous about performing in public.· The orchestra will be at the Festival Hall tonight, performing a selection of works by Russian composers.
playing a particular instrument in a band: · When they perform, Barbara sings and her older sister Suzie is on drums.· The recording features Norman Simmons on piano and Henry Johnson on guitar.
to perform music by creating it from your imagination while you play or sing: · You can't play jazz unless you can improvise.· Mike improvised a little farewell song at the end of the evening.
to play jazz or rock music with other people in an informal way, without planning what you are going to play: · Some guys are getting together tonight at Scott's to jam.jam with: · Matthews used to jam with drummer Carter Beauford and saxophonist LeRoi Moore.jam session (=an occasion when a group of musicians jam): · All-night jam sessions were common in Kansas City jazz clubs of the 1930s.
to play a song or piece of music from memory without reading the written music: · He never took piano lessons - he just plays by ear.· With the Suzuki method, a child is trained to play by ear at an early age without any written music.
WORD SETSacrobat, nounact, verbacting, nounactor, nounactress, nounagent, nounarena, nounbig name, nounbill, nounblack comedy, nounbook, verbcast, nouncasting, nounclown, nouncomedian, nouncomedienne, nouncomedy, nouncomic, nouncompany, nounconcert hall, nounconjure, verbconjurer, nounconjuring, nounconservatoire, nounconservatory, nouncontortionist, noundisplay, noundouble act, nounduo, nounemcee, nounenact, verbencore, nounentertainer, nounentertainment, nounfestival, nounfinale, nounfirst night, nounfool, noungala, noungrand finale, nounguest, nounham, nounheadline, verbheartthrob, nounhigh wire, nounhypnotist, nounimpersonator, nounimpresario, nouninterlude, nounintermission, nouninterpret, verbinterpretation, nounintro, nounlive, adjectivemagic, nounmagician, nounmagic wand, nounmajorette, nounmanager, nounmask, nounmatinée, nounmatinée idol, nounmegastar, nounmime, nounminstrel, nounnarration, nounopening night, nounPA, nounpart, nounperform, verbperformance, nounperformer, nounpresentation, nounprincipal, nounproducer, nounprogramme, nounprompt, verbprompt, nounpublic, nounpunchline, nounraconteur, nounrecast, verbrecitation, nounrehearsal, nounrehearse, verbrepertoire, nounreprise, nounringside, nounroadshow, nounrole-play, nounsafety net, nounshow business, nounshowgirl, nounshow-stopping, adjectivesketch, nounslapstick, nounsleight of hand, nounsmash hit, nounsnake charmer, nounsold out, adjectiveson et lumière, nounstand-up, adjectivestand-up, nounstar, verbstooge, nounstraight man, nounstripper, nounstriptease, nounsuperstar, nountattoo, nountightrope, nountour, nountroubadour, nountroupe, nountumbler, nounventriloquist, nounvirtuoso, nounwooden, adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Meaning 2nouns the woman who performed the feat of sailing around the world alone In your new job you will perform a variety of functions. The church fulfils a valuable social function. I love their music, but I’ve never seen them perform live. They will perform a short mime later. We prayed and did penance together. These traditional rites are performed only by the women of the village. The lady of the house performs the sacred ritual of lighting two candles.
· What skills do you need to perform this task?
· Over 6,000 people in our community of 100,000 perform volunteer work.
· Part of the Chemistry exam involves performing an experiment.
· The surgeon who performed the operation said it had gone well.
· At 3 o'clock, the opening ceremony was performed by the Queen.
· Our troops are performing a remarkable service and a terribly important mission.
· The two organizations perform similar functions.
· The children sing and perform the actions to nursery songs.
(=do things that seem impossible)· I'm prepared to work hard to get the job done but I can't perform miracles.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES (=do something, especially something difficult or useful)· The nurses performed many small acts of kindness.
· No similar analysis has been done in this country.
· The band played to huge audiences in Mexico City and Buenos Aires.
· The band is performing live on Saturday night.
formal (=do one)· Computers can perform calculations very quickly.
· The Bishop of Louisiana performed the ceremony.
formal (=do a chore)· It's good for kids to learn how to perform household chores.
· I'm playing in a jazz concert on Saturday night.
· We watched the group perform some traditional Spanish dances.
· Antibiotics play an essential role in controlling infection.
· The doctor will perform an examination in order to assess the problem.
formal (=do an experiment)· The laboratory began conducting experiments on rats.
the woman who performed the feat of sailing around the world alone In your new job you will perform a variety of functions. The church fulfils a valuable social function. I love their music, but I’ve never seen them perform live. They will perform a short mime later. (=achieve something very good which no one thought was possible)· The new coach has worked miracles, and the team have won their last four games.
We prayed and did penance together.· The play was performed by Brighton Youth Theatre.
· She acted in many plays on the London stage.
These traditional rites are performed only by the women of the village. The lady of the house performs the sacred ritual of lighting two candles. (=in public)· He doesn’t like performing his songs live.
· I don't think we have enough resources to carry out this task.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADVERB· When faced with familiar letter-strings in novel combinations, skilled readers perform better than less skilled readers.· They tended to come from a slightly less disadvantaged background and to have performed better, often much better, in school.· Quality networks within the hotels encourage employees to make suggestions which will help them perform better.· The study claimed that the same applications performed better in the Macintosh models and that Macintosh offered better price performance.· We do know that at present males perform better than females at spatial visualisation tests.· But just because a flour is organically grown does not guarantee that it will perform better.· As would be expected, own solicitors are less available than duty solicitors and rota schemes perform better than panels.· Klatsky found that some subjects preferred trackballs or Glidepoint pads even though they actually performed better with mice.
· I told him that he had six months and if he performed well I'd buy him a company car.· Yet these stocks performed well in both.· Anthony Record, Britannia's chairman, said Actron had overcome its problems and was performing well.· On top of her usual lack of self-confidence, Eddie feels more than usual pressure to perform well during this game.· In comparison to those sectors, supermarkets performed well year on year.· On winding grades, it also performed well.· Britain had always performed well in this competition and we had a strong team once again.· As an adult, you know that self-consciousness only inhibits your ability to perform well.
NOUN· Whiners are pretty insecure about their ability to perform, Rhoads said.· Trans World's ability to perform so well during this period raised eyebrows.· The comedian expressed doubts about his ability to perform without a live audience, but agreed to do it.· Play instinct is redirected into working ability and willingness to perform tasks.· Another big difference has to do with speed and the ability to perform in real time.· I would say always remember that what is on show is oneself, not necessarily the ability to perform brilliant characterisations.· A few years after revealing her diagnosis, Collyar said, she became aware of rumors questioning her ability to perform.
· Boro have been involved in photo-finishes since the 1986 liquidation crisis, while Lawrence performed a permanent highwire act at Charlton Athletic.· He was like a robot kitchen helper, he sometimes thought, who performed acts without understanding what he was doing.· There's always a reason why a person performs the murder act.· The Goddess who performs this act is Kubaba, the Hittite name for Cybele.· Instead he will, in best bib and tucker, be performing his last official act as the Masters champion.· Kronos performs an equally strange act.· It is used in respect of sacred trees, shrines, etc., and is performed as an act of reverence or respect.· I never saw any one perform an act of cruelty.
· To perform higher actions, to serve the imagination with special distinction, it seems essential to be histrionic.· Many of these songs give opportunity for pupils to mime or perform actions while seated at their desks.· In young children, construction occurs almost exclusively when they perform actions on objects.· If state officials perform a particular action, the elite must have had a goal which that action helps.· First, highlight the text, then perform the action.· In active clauses, the subject is the agent responsible for performing the action.· The children are required to perform these actions as they hear the teacher's instructions.
· A person may be unable to perform a major life activity which an average person could perform.· Design and perform some activity that uses the instrument.· In complex learning such as problem-solving, it can mean having the opportunity to perform further activities within a particular class of problems.· It does, however, provide an excellent centrepiece for performing all those other activities which are so useful for coronary patients.· We begin to perform activities with greater efficiency and therefore have much more energy at the end of the day.· The ability of members successfully to perform practical activities in collaboration with others is what makes the social world possible.· Getting Up From a Chair Most people expend tremendous amounts of energy when performing this simple activity.
· Does she perform several different speech acts with the word, questioning, commanding, wishing, stating?· He was like a robot kitchen helper, he sometimes thought, who performed acts without understanding what he was doing.· The hygienic bee performs two acts.· Scrapbooks and bottles of paste and cutout articles of the young Dove braving gales in canoes, performing heroic acts.· In many areas, the state has stepped in to perform such acts.· Just in case, Thérèse performed as many acts of mortification daily as she could think of.
· To explore the mode of inheritance further we performed a complex segregation analysis.· A major problem with the approach adopted is that there is not enough detail to allow you to actually perform the analysis.· The first approach is to perform syntactic analysis first then have a second pass convert the syntactic tree to a semantic representation.· It is therefore important to be able to perform discrete sensitivity analysis and to handle lower bounds.· Moreover, to be able to perform a reliable statistical analysis the sample size must be considerably larger.· Unfortunately this method has a number of drawbacks, notably the time taken to perform the analysis.· I Charreau, who prepared the randomisation list and performed the intermediate analysis.
· Read in studio A bishop has performed the opening ceremony at a pub which is owned by the church.· I stood in back of Polly and Eddie while the minister performed the marriage ceremony.· Besides, Mait has decided to perform his ceremony tonight.· He also has written a piece that 100 percussionists will perform at the opening ceremonies for the summer Olympic Games.· The teenage boy sits in silence, without anaesthetic, as the elders perform the ceremony.· Baroness Masham of Ilton, a member of all-party committees on the disabled, will perform the opening ceremony.
· He began to run about in front of her, to turn, to perform grotesque dance movements that were not without some grace.· Hopis perform their Snake Dance surrounded by Anglos armed with tripods, in 1897.· Bunched tightly together by older men in animal skins and carrying spears, they perform a ceremonial dance to insistent drumming.· In the procession from Athens, as the mystae came over a bridge, people impersonating BAubo performed lewd dances before them.· Martina and I performed the uncertain dance of people parting, with its limited steps.· The female of the species performs her mating dance.· She performs a ritualised dance that tells the other bees the distance, direction, and quality of the food.· Verrucas Children now perform dance and gymnastics lessons in bare feet.
· But, as hostess, she had duties to perform.· Its duties are performed without executive leave and, in the contemplation of the statute, must be free from executive control.· The chapel had important liturgical and ceremonial duties to perform.· One of the instruments by which this duty may be peaceably performed, is the judicial department.· But he knew that he had one more duty to perform before he allowed himself to succumb to his craving for rest.· They each had their own duties to perform to keep their household running smoothly.· The duty to perform a contract can not be derived from the principle of respect for autonomy.· Later Justices of the Peace were appointed and as time passed they were given administrative as well as judicial duties to perform.
· Originally this means of disposal was performed as an experiment to assess what happened to the radioactive material.· In other words, Heisenberg pointed out that bodies, not detached minds, perform experiments.· Cairns-Smith invites us to perform the following experiment.· We will perform the experiment as before, but this time in pitch darkness.· We design and perform an experiment, or make observations, according to a preformed set of ideas or concepts in our mind.· I merely want you to perform an experiment.· She performs unnatural experiments on prisoners in the concentration camps.· Contrary to the popular myth, Galileo seems to have performed few experiments in mechanics.
· Crawford was still in camp during the 1918 season, and was able to perform great feats for Wellington.· The traders performed astonishing feats of gluttony never before seen at Salomon.· After all, here was a company that had just performed unparalleled feats.· The sports literature suggests that a few individuals who are able to perform extraordinary feats view reality in this way.· In 1882 and in 1883 he performed the feat of taking the half-mile, one-mile, four-mile, and ten-mile championships.· Latterly Dad had sobered much when he was no longer able to perform his old feats of strength and daring.· How they perform such amazing navigational feats is unknown.· And it may perform this stupendous reproductive feat annually for thirty or forty years.
· Sometimes this function was performed by castle towns, but some centres of the commodity economy were separate from domain administration.· These and other functions not performed by doctors are carried out by people trained or supervised by doctors, the lawsuit alleges.· However, before going to Budapest I had one more evangelical function to perform.· Their conceptual framework is based on two central questions: What functions must be performed if the state is to persist?· What role will the human resources function perform?· Here total income is distributed according to the function performed by the income receiver.· Ministry seems to have grown up in a haphazard manner, basically in response to the need that various functions be performed.· In most contemporary states, virtually every political function is performed by a variety of political structures.
· His doubts only increased when he performed another job, midway to finally making up his mind about the Bolt play.· Under such a system, workers have the opportunity to increase their base pay by learning to perform a variety of jobs.· Ultra-violet light sterilisers perform a similar job to ozone without so many possible side effects.· Since they learn to perform more jobs, they are more valuable to their company because they are more flexible.· His wife was the chairman of a health authority and she performed that job excellently for many years.· Everyone seems to know how to perform every job and is willing to do so.· The computer revolution may have a significant effect upon the way in which you are able to perform your job.· They were anxious about how much they would like and how well they would perform the new job.
· Having performed a healing miracle, she is packed off to a remote convent.· Tony Freeman prays that he can perform a miracle.· Cloughie has performed miracles with limited resources at his disposal.· People actually believe he performs miracles.· Stalls were out and there were mummers performing miracle plays.· She had the gift of prophecy, performed many miracles and is known to have mysteriously supplied food for the convent.· Such an accusation is hardly likely to have been invented by his enemies if he had not performed miracles.· He even performed a miracle to prove his innocence.
· She performed her hit Music, looking more muscular than ever.· Meanwhile, he obtained a medical degree, but has been performing music exclusively since 1978.· Unfortunately, slow music and fast music altered how they performed the tests so music is now forbidden during testing sessions.· It will be always a great pleasure to remain in contact with the spirit of Olivier Messiaen every time I perform his music.· Mr Gregory will also perform harpsichord music of the baroque period.· The Gabrielis specialize in performing music in historic churches, compiling actual or possible programs originally heard in those venues.
· Two surgeons will perform all the operations.· You can sort these tables and even perform mathematical operations on them.· There are instructions to move strings, to compare them, and to perform the usual logical operations.· My doctors performed a bypass operation to clear away a blockage in the blood vessels that supply my heart.· They had to perform a tracheotomy throat operation to aid his breathing.· To prevent certain paralysis they needed to perform a series of operations to graft a spinal vertebra.· A hospital in Buckinghamshire is one of only two in the country performing the new operation.· Now and then, as a favor to highly placed people, Papa performed operations.
· Preoperative radiotherapy with 30 Gy was performed in 52 patients.· The operation has been performed on 10 patients so far, with inconclusive results.· Intestinal resection was performed in 36 patients during the period of follow up.· Most of the time, x-rays are performed to reassure patients or doctors, according to the researchers.· The procedure, Incidentally, can and has been performed on patients undergoing brain surgery.· Endoscopic sphincterotomy was performed in 16 patients with successful removal of all calculi in seven.· Intervention trials were performed in normotensive patients with insulin-dependent diabetes and microalbuminuria.· Exhaustive microbiological analysis were performed in order to exclude patients with gastrointestinal infection.
· Now, some children are performing plays with very different themes.· The actors perform scenes from the play both in costume and in informal attire.· By his retirement in 1955 he had performed in over 200 plays.· There was a youth group being set up to perform a play which was about teenage gay men and lesbians and their experiences.· I got involved in that so that by mid-1977 I was performing in a play which was actually saying that I was gay.· If you think your acting is good enough, perform the play for your Pack.· The performed plays, and the acting, were in conscious competition for prizes.· The craftsmen of the local Guilds had been performing a play on the Feast of Corpus Christi for eighty years.
· Anthropometry is the most frequently performed child health screening procedure.· I performed 39 procedures without diathermy, and contamination occurred in four.
· They leave their mundane business and material world outside the garden, and perform the rites of the perception of beauty.· I imagined a sorceress inside performing her rites behind the window, with a red kerchief.· Upstream and downstream, and on the far bank other villages were performing the same rites.· She spoke for me: No one performed the proper rites of the dead.· Finally, they perform rites to obtain children, preferably male, and for the safety and health of their children.· Whenever a member of her household became ill, she called a medicine woman to perform a magical rite.· Mme Guérigny insisted that I watch closely while she performed this rite.
· For a few hours the Tea Master and his guests perform an artistic ritual in which the mundane is washed from their minds.· Throughout the day the grouse drums in the woods, and the woodcock performs its exuberant ritual at dawn and dusk.· The enigma of the stones draws druids to perform their weird rituals.· He had seen the etchings of it one evening after performing a ritual of weed-pulling from the tombs behind the abandoned pagoda.· So wife Raine asked a clergyman to perform an ancient exorcism ritual at Althorp House, near Northampton.· My only recourse was to perform the Elimination Ritual.· Squatting, she performed the familiar ritual of menstruation.· It says he apparently performed some ritual and gave the girl a cake with her name on it.
· Men perform an instrumental role, women an expressive one.· After they had performed well in the role, these women made prestigious marriages, as does Cinderella.· He performed that unglamorous role for Cleveland early in 1998, then was traded to San Francisco in mid-season.· Procedural rights perform an instrumental role in the sense of helping to attain an accurate decision on the substance of the case.· On your behalf they may perform: 1 a role, or 2 a task.· They were trying to learn to perform a role whose meaning and importance they could not grasp ahead of time.
· In October 1990 he pleaded guilty in the Crown Court to handling, and was ordered to perform 90 hours community service.· He was fined $ 250 and required to perform community service.· And the generals who had grown too popular had been commanded to perform one last service by falling upon their swords.· Trappers perform a service that very few urbanites are aware of.· Ewias had performed that service for Osbern, and he did not forget it.· United Behavioral Health began performing administrative services for King County in the spring of 1995.· The number of serfs performing labour services, always a minority, fell.· Furthermore, he does not feel that he has performed a great service to humanity.
· Studies which address such complexities tend to be performed in women's studies rather than within feminist psychology.· Individual characteristics that have been investigated are as varied as the researchers performing the studies.· Genomecenter officials investigated, and found that Hughes was using government resources to perform genetic studies on test-tube embryos.· An analysis of clinical parameters was not performed in either study.· Wright and Burton performed a crossover study of evening primrose oil and placebo in 99 adults and children with atopic eczema.
· Women had many tasks to perform in the fields and in the home.· In these classes there are multiple tasks to be performed, and they require the multiple talents children bring to school.· When a brownie adopts a house he happily takes responsibility for many household tasks, which he performs at night.· You can create similar macros to accomplish any task performed by a sequence of keystrokes.· Baldwin had two immediate tasks to perform in opposition.· In the course of designing work, the tasks to be performed would be broken down to their most fundamental level.· It was just a difficult, demanding task to perform.· In terms of the specific tasks he performs, he still is.
· In simulations, the teams perform similarly to their real counterparts.· Akinbiyi and his team-mates then performed a strange goal celebration.· The teams are performing as self managed units although the manager will agree clear objectives with the team.· So there's no way of telling how team members are performing.· And finally the Red Arrows, one of fifteen air display teams performing at Fairford.We asked which plane do they fly?
· Comparisons between groups were performed with the Wilcoxon test for unpaired data and the Fisher test.· Economists can not so easily divide the country into two districts to perform similar tests.· Howard University will perform two sorts of tests.· The patient performed the tests with no other comment-until the temporal lobe site was stimulated again without warning.· Statistical analysis was performed using the Mann-Whitney test and Spearman's rank correlation test as appropriate.· They performed a series of tests and took an identical snack every 3 hours throughout the study.· They also checked for a history of asthma or related allergies, and performed immune-system tests.
· But ministers want to tighten the rules to ensure only people unable to perform any sort of work would qualify for payment.· He independently performed work that required about two minutes of his time.· In return he performed clerical work for the secretaries themselves.· Women have long performed police work.· There are more awards for people who have performed charitable or voluntary work.· Exodus also prescribes death for those who defile the Sabbath or perform any work on that day.· Exercise and its physical demands Can the body perform physical work equally well at all times of the 24 hours?· They learned from their experiments that performing the actual work took in total only 90 minutes.
VERB· The guardian must continue to perform his other duties but can not give instructions to the child's solicitor.· His music will continue to be performed for a very long time.· Our life operations also continue to perform strongly.· The pressure on Sainsbury will continue if it performs poorly, he said.· Nowadays, apart from continuing to direct and perform, he heads the drama school of the Moscow Art Theatre.· Alvin relented, however, and Moore continued to perform with the company through the tour.· Cruises had continued to perform well.· As might be expected, both films continue to perform well at the box office.
· The simplest involves racing down a mountain, while the most complicated requires you to perform tricks on an obstacle course.· This is a different basic assumption than what is required for a peak performing team.· Stamina, flexibility, sharp reflexes and general physical fitness are required to perform the fighting movements with ease.· Then, the skills required to perform these tasks are identified.· Timber cladding also requires the householder to perform regular maintenance, as described above.· Finally, the Pennsylvania statute requires every facility performing abortions to report its activities to the Commonwealth.· The children are required to perform these actions as they hear the teacher's instructions.· They seemed to require favorable weather to perform faithfully.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► the performing arts
- After they had performed well in the role, these women made prestigious marriages, as does Cinderella.
- All this works only if Hanson's headquarters performs well in its non-executive role.
- Anthony Record, Britannia's chairman, said Actron had overcome its problems and was performing well.
- Is a nominated subcontractor really likely to perform better than the subcontractor's own subcontractor?
- Organizations need some degree of structure to perform well.
- This propellant combination performs well and permits a fairly compact vehicle design.
- To perform well a team needs a range of roles in its make-up.
- Yet these stocks performed well in both.
- We're relying on Foster performing miracles out on the football field today.
- A hired hand who worked miracles and shared what little he had with those few who were less fortunate.
- And she has already been known, you tell me, to work miracles.
- Cloughie has performed miracles with limited resources at his disposal.
- Even if animosity worked miracles in bringing about good grades, would it be worth it?
- If he can work miracles in me, you have no problem.
- People actually believe he performs miracles.
- Whereas for me she works miracles.
- Why should anyone mind a person working miracles?
WORD FAMILYnounperformanceperformeradjectiveperformingverbperform
1[intransitive, transitive] to do something to entertain people, for example by acting a play or playing a piece of music: Chenier and the band are performing at the Silver Palace tomorrow. The children perform two plays each school year. ► Do not use perform to say what person an actor pretends to be in a play, film etc. Use play: John Wayne played (NOT performed) a Roman soldier in the film.2[transitive] to do something, especially something difficult or useful SYN carry out: Surgeons performed an emergency operation. The official opening ceremony was performed by Princess Margaret.perform a study/experiment/analysis etc An analysis of the survey data was performed.perform a task/job/duty She was fired for not performing the duties outlined in her contract.perform a function/role software that performs a specific function The leadership cannot be expected to perform miracles (=improve a situation in a way that seems impossible).RegisterIn everyday English, people usually say that someone carries out an operation, a study etc rather than use perform:· The operation was carried out by a team of surgeons.3perform well/badly etc a)to work or do something well, badly etc: Many religious schools perform well academically. The team performed poorly on Saturday. b)if a product, business etc performs well or badly, it makes a lot of money or very little money: The economy is performing well.COLLOCATIONS– Meaning 2nounsperform a task/job/duty etc· What skills do you need to perform this task?perform work· Over 6,000 people in our community of 100,000 perform volunteer work.perform an experiment/study etc· Part of the Chemistry exam involves performing an experiment.perform an operation· The surgeon who performed the operation said it had gone well.perform a ceremony· At 3 o'clock, the opening ceremony was performed by the Queen.perform a service· Our troops are performing a remarkable service and a terribly important mission.perform a function/role· The two organizations perform similar functions.perform an action· The children sing and perform the actions to nursery songs.perform miracles (=do things that seem impossible)· I'm prepared to work hard to get the job done but I can't perform miracles.