perform
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
perform/pəˈfɔːm/
▶verb
- 1 carry out, accomplish, or fulfil (an action, task, or function).
- 2 work, function, or do something to a specified standard: the car performs well at low speeds.
■ (of an investment) yield a profitable return.
- 3 present (a form of entertainment) to an audience.
– derivatives
performability noun,
performable adjective,
performer noun.
performability noun,
performable adjective,
performer noun.
– origin ME: from Anglo-Norman Fr. parfourmer, alt. (by assoc. with forme ‘form’) of OFr. parfournir, from par ‘through, to completion’ + fournir ‘furnish, provide’.
'perform' also found in these Oxford entries:
acalculia
- acquit
- act
- ad-lib
- administer
- afford
- appliance
- apraxia
- attachment
- autopsy
- barratry
- base jump
- beat
- begin
- bellyflop
- bourrée
- buck
- caracole
- carry
- cartwheel
- celebrate
- chassé
- cheerleader
- command
- commission
- community order
- community sentence
- company
- conation
- conga
- cook
- copyright
- cottage
- cover
- curtsy
- curvet
- dance
- deejay
- defence
- depute
- discharge
- DJ
- do
- duet
- duress
- end
- energy
- ensemble
- excel
- execute
