performed
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’.
'performed' also found in these Oxford entries:
acciaccatura
- accolade
- aerobatics
- aquarobics
- associative
- backstroke
- ballet
- belly dance
- berserk
- Bikram yoga
- bimanual
- bondager
- boogaloo
- bourrée
- brace
- buck
- cabaret
- cachucha
- cancan
- capriole
- ceremony
- cha-cha
- chaconne
- charivari
- chuppah
- circuit
- conga
- corybantic
- country dance
- craniotomy
- curtain-raiser
- dash
- data
- dilatation and curettage
- distributive
- dobby
- drape
- duplet
- efficiency
- Eleusinian mysteries
- entr'acte
- execution
- extravehicular
- extreme
- fatigue
- fertility cult
- flamenco
- fluidics
- footer
- fouetté
