Performance

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Performance \Per*form"ance\, n.
     The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action;
     execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by
     action; as, the performance of an undertaking of a duty.
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           Promises are not binding where the performance is
           impossible.                              --Paley.
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     2. That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or
        carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat;
        esp., an action of an elaborate or public character. "Her
        walking and other actual performances." --Shak. "His
        musical performances." --Macaulay.
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     Syn: Completion; consummation; execution; accomplishment;
          achievement; production; work; act; action; deed;
          exploit; feat.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  performance
       n 1: a dramatic or musical entertainment; "they listened to ten
            different performances"; "the play ran for 100
            performances"; "the frequent performances of the
            symphony testify to its popularity" [syn: {public
            presentation}]
       2: the act of performing; of doing something successfully;
          using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing
          it; "they criticised his performance as mayor";
          "experience generally improves performance" [syn: {execution},
           {carrying out}, {carrying into action}]
       3: the act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other
          entertainment; "we congratulated him on his performance at
          the rehearsal"; "an inspired performance of Mozart's C
          minor concerto"
       4: process or manner of functioning or operating; "the power of
          its engine determine its operation"; "the plane's
          operation in high winds"; "they compared the cooking
          performance of each oven"; "the jet's performance
          conformed to high standards" [syn: {operation}, {functioning}]
       5: any recognized accomplishment; "they admired his performance
          under stress"; "when Roger Maris powered four home runs in
          one game his performance merits awe"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  240 Moby Thesaurus words for "performance":
     Philharmonic concert, accomplished fact, accomplishment,
     accordance, achievement, acquittal, acquittance, act, acta, acting,
     action, adherence, administration, adventure, agency, aping,
     appearance, attainment, baccalaureate service, band concert,
     behavior, benefit, bill, blow, bringing to fruition, buffoonery,
     business, cantando, care, carrying out, celebration, ceremonial,
     ceremony, chamber concert, characterization, commencement,
     commission, completion, compliance, concert, conduct, conformance,
     conformity, consummation, convocation, coup, dealings, debut, deed,
     demeanor, demilegato, demonstration, deportment, direction,
     discharge, dispatch, display, doing, doings, driving, dumb show,
     effectiveness, effectuation, efficacy, effort, embodiment,
     empty formality, enacting, enactment, endeavor, engagement,
     enterprise, entertainment, execution, exercise, exercises, exhibit,
     exhibition, exploit, exposition, exposure, expression,
     fait accompli, farewell performance, feat, fingering, flesh show,
     formal, formality, fruition, fulfillment, function, functioning,
     gag, gest, gig, glissando, go, graduation, graduation exercises,
     ham, hammy acting, hand, handiwork, handling, heed, heeding, hoke,
     hokum, imitation, impersonation, implementation, inaugural,
     inauguration, incarnation, initiation, interpretation, intonation,
     job, keeping, legato, liturgy, management, maneuver, manipulation,
     masquerade, measure, mezzo staccato, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry,
     miming, mission accomplished, move, mummery, music-making,
     musical performance, musical program, observance, observation,
     occupation, office, opening, operancy, operation, ostentation,
     overacting, overproduction, overt act, pantomime, pantomiming,
     parlando, passage, patter, performing, perpetration, personation,
     personification, philharmonic, pianism, pizzicato, play,
     playacting, playing, pop concert, pops, popular concert, portrayal,
     posing, practice, premiere, presentation, presentment, proceeding,
     production, productiveness, program, program of music, projection,
     prom, promenade concert, realization, recital, religious ceremony,
     rendering, rendition, repercussion, representation, res gestae,
     respect, responsibility, retrospective, rite, rite de passage,
     rite of passage, ritual, rubato, running, satisfaction, scene,
     service, service of music, show, showing, slapstick, slur,
     solemnity, solemnization, spiccato, staccato, stage business,
     stage directions, stage presence, stage presentation, steering,
     step, stroke, stunt, success, swan song, symphony concert,
     taking a role, theatrical performance, thing, thing done, touch,
     tour de force, transaction, tryout, turn, undertaking, unfolding,
     unfoldment, unveiling, varnishing day, vernissage, work, working,
     workings, works
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  PERFORMANCE. The act of doing something; the thing done is also called a 
  performance; as, Paul is exonerated from the obligation of his contract by 
  its performance. 
       2. When it contract has been made by parol, which, under the statute of 
  frauds and perjuries, could not be enforced, because it was not in writing, 
  and the party seeking to avoid it, has received the whole or a part 
  performance of such agreement, he cannot afterwards avoid it; 14 John. 15; 
  S. C. 1 John. Ch. R. 273; and such part performance will enable the other 
  party to prove it aliunde. 1 Pet. C. C. R. 380; 1 Rand. R. 165; 1 Blackf. R. 
  58; 2 Day, R. 255; 1 Desaus. R. 350; 5 Day, R. 67; 1 Binn. R. 218; 3 Paige, 
  R. 545; 1 John. Ch. R. 131, 146. Vide Specific performance.