perform

«perform» in Mova's school dictionary: to act, sing, dance or play music for an audience — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

verb (perform, performs, performed, performing)

meaning for a pupil

1) To perform is to act, sing, dance or play music for an audience. tree →

2) To perform a task is to do it, especially a difficult or exact one. tree →

3) To perform well or badly is to work or do well or badly. tree →

sense in the lessons

In school, pupils perform in plays, concerts and assemblies. In maths, you perform calculations; in science, you perform experiments; doctors perform operations. In sport, players perform well in a match. Phrases: "perform on stage", "perform an experiment", "perform a task".

examples

• Our class will perform a play at assembly. tree →
• The band performed three songs. tree →
• Perform the calculation carefully. tree →
• We performed an experiment with magnets. tree →
• The surgeon performed the operation. tree →
• She performed well in her test. tree →
• The car performs well on snow. tree →
• Do not promise more than you can perform. tree →

note

Regular: performed, performing. Nouns: performance, performer. Spelled per-form (not "preform", which means to shape in advance).

In the corpora

• The Māori are the first people of New Zealand, and the New Zealand rugby team performs a haka before matches.
• When someone performs, you listen quietly and clap at the end, because it shows respect for their effort.
• As the crowd thinned, the two boys had no one to perform for, and the shoving slowed.
• The Greeks invented theatre, with comedies and tragedies performed in great open-air theatres by actors wearing masks.
• Doping means athletes taking banned drugs to perform better; it cheats honest competitors and can badly harm health.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «perform» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.