performance

«performance» in Mova's school dictionary: a show of acting, music or dance in front of an audience — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a performance, performances; performance, uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) A performance is a show of acting, music or dance in front of an audience. tree →

2) Performance is how well someone or something does a job or task. tree →

3) A performance is the act of doing something. tree →

sense in the lessons

In school, there are performances of plays, concerts and dance shows. In sport and schoolwork, teachers talk about your performance in a test or a match. In everyday life, a car's or computer's performance is how fast and well it works. Phrases: "give a performance", "school performance", "good performance".

examples

• Our school performance was a big success. tree →
• Tickets for the evening performance are sold out. tree →
• Her performance in the test was excellent. tree →
• The team's performance improved after training. tree →
• The new computer has better performance. tree →
• He gave a brilliant performance as the wolf. tree →
• Before starting your performance, salute your audience!” tree →

note

Countable for shows ("three performances"), uncountable for how well something works. Ends in -ance, not -ence.

In the corpora

• A rehearsal is a practice session for a performance; a band cannot rehearse full songs if people do not turn up.
• Feelings after a performance can be big and mixed, and feeling bad does not prove you sang badly.

Trees and pragmatics

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