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noun

Performance 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."

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." "His musical performances."

Synonyms: Completion; consummation; execution; accomplishment; achievement; production; work; act; action; deed; exploit; feat.

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Etymology of 'Performance'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Performance" Quotes from Famous Books

... weaklunged performance—not altogether harmonious, but vastly sweeter than a war-whoop; certainly hearty and sincere and doubtless an acceptable offering of praise. The Rev. John Baptiste Renville was the preacher. His theme was Ezekiel's ...

— Among the Sioux - A Story of the Twin Cities and the Two Dakotas • R. J. Creswell

... democracy so unaffectedly sincere, that it flavored his whole personality with a pleasing distinctiveness. The British do not expect their very young men to be too knowing or too fatally bright; they mark the promise rather than the performance of youth, and spaciously allow time for the process of development. And so Peter Champneys found himself curiously at home ...

— The Purple Heights • Marie Conway Oemler

... improve educational facilities, to face up to environmental problems, to deal with the rapidly growing problem of HIV/AIDS, and to satisfy foreign donors that fiscal discipline is being tightened. The performance of the tobacco sector is key to short-term growth as tobacco accounts ...

— The 2003 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... of poetic harmony. He had not even sufficient ear to feel the rhythm, of poetry, and he never could recite a verse without violating the metre; yet the grand ideas of poetry charmed him. He absolutely worshipped Corneille; and, one day, after having witnessed a performance of 'Cinna', he said to me, "If a man like Corneille were living in my time I would make him my Prime Minister. It is not his poetry that I most admire; it is his powerful understanding, his vast knowledge of the human heart, and his profound policy!" At St. Helena he said ...

— Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Complete • Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne

... who happily describes himself as "a dormant volcano" has of late found an agreeable stimulant in the performance of solos on the muted ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 153, Aug. 22, 1917 • Various

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