a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
the act of performing a ceremony, play, piece of music, etc.
the execution or accomplishment of work, acts, feats, etc.
a particular action, deed, or proceeding.
an action or proceeding of an unusual or spectacular kind: His temper tantrum was quite a performance.
the act of performing.
the manner in which or the efficiency with which something reacts or fulfills its intended purpose.
Linguistics. the actual use of language in real situations, which may or may not fully reflect a speaker's competence, being subject to such nonlinguistic factors as inattention, distraction, memory lapses, fatigue, or emotional state.Compare competence (def. 6).
So if I was able to come in there and be treated so respectfully and so beautifully that I was able to give a great performance, that’s the win.
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The account performance report should include data from all search queries, whereas the search query report now only includes data for search queries that made it past Google’s new filters.
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Thanks to that redesigned silicon, the device’s CPU performance beats out the previous iPad Air by 40% and its graphics speed is twice as fast.
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The hope was that greater transparency about performance would drive results.
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Tony Shalhoub, Act One Sometimes you realize the power of a performance only when it remains in your mind many months later.
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Having graduated Juilliard last spring, Alex Sharp is too young to have given the performance of a lifetime.
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Worse still is how much of this is being made into performance.
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Her very first performance onstage came at the age of 4, when she cameoed as a dancing flower in the musical Bye Bye Birdie.
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This was Madame Malibran, under the effect of my father's performance of the Gamester, which she had just witnessed.
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Whatever you may think of my economical measures, the deed is done, and my honour is now pledged for the performance.
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The good- humoured Italians did not even resent the fellows having thus disturbed and interrupted the performance.
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The report of the new piece is often written and set up before the performance takes place.
Hence, the performance of every function is, in a sense, a moral obligation.
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British Dictionary definitions for performance
performance
/ (pəˈfɔːməns) /
noun
the act, process, or art of performing
an artistic or dramatic productionlast night's performance was terrible
manner or quality of functioninga machine's performance
informalmode of conduct or behaviour, esp when distasteful or irregularwhat did you mean by that performance at the restaurant?
informalany tiresome procedurewhat a performance dressing the children to play in the snow!
any accomplishment
linguistics(in transformational grammar) the form of the human language faculty, viewed as concretely embodied in speakersCompare competence (def. 5), langue, parole (def. 5)