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noun
1.
a musical, dramatic, or other entertainment presented before an audience.
2.
the act of performing a ceremony, play, piece of music, etc.
3.
the execution or accomplishment of work, acts, feats, etc.
4.
a particular action, deed, or proceeding.
5.
EXPANDan action or proceeding of an unusual or spectacular kind: His temper tantrum was quite a performance.
6.
the act of performing.
7.
the manner in which or the efficiency with which something reacts or fulfills its intended purpose.
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COLLAPSELinguistics. 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.
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Performance
is always a great word to know.
So is meaning. Does it mean:
| the cultural correlate, reference, or denotation of an expression separate from linguistic content |
| the spoken form a word has when produced in isolation, such as for illustration, as distinguished from the form it would have when produced in the normal stream of speech |
Example Sentences
- Goffman's point: Weddings make the performance part of social life obvious.
- The former was a genuinely cathartic performance following a shocking event.
- Hard-training athletes boost their performance with a variety of popular sports drinks.
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World English Dictionary
| performance (pəˈfɔːməns) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the act, process, or art of performing |
| 2. | an artistic or dramatic production: last night's performance was terrible |
| 3. | manner or quality of functioning: a machine's performance |
| 4. | informal mode of conduct or behaviour, esp when distasteful or irregular: what did you mean by that performance at the restaurant? |
| 5. | informal any tiresome procedure: what a performance dressing the children to play in the snow! |
| 6. | any accomplishment |
| 7. | linguistics competence langue Compare parole (in transformational grammar) the form of the human language faculty, viewed as concretely embodied in speakers |
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