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# perform

«perform» in Mova's school dictionary: **to act, sing, dance or play music for an audience** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (perform, performs, performed, performing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To perform is to act, sing, dance or play music for an audience. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perform/#m1)

2) To perform a task is to do it, especially a difficult or exact one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perform/#m2)

3) To perform well or badly is to work or do well or badly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perform/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school, pupils perform in plays, concerts and assemblies. In maths, you perform calculations; in science, you perform experiments; doctors perform operations. In sport, players perform well in a match. Phrases: "perform on stage", "perform an experiment", "perform a task".

### examples

- Our class will perform a play at assembly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perform/#x1)
- The band performed three songs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perform/#x2)
- Perform the calculation carefully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perform/#x3)
- We performed an experiment with magnets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perform/#x4)
- The surgeon performed the operation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perform/#x5)
- She performed well in her test. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perform/#x6)
- The car performs well on snow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perform/#x7)
- Do not promise more than you can perform. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perform/#x8)

### note

Regular: performed, performing. Nouns: performance, performer. Spelled per-form (not "preform", which means to shape in advance).

### In the corpora

- [The Māori are the first people of New Zealand, and the New Zealand rugby team performs a haka before matches.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/30-dances-of-the-world-and-dancing-at-parties/9/)
- [When someone performs, you listen quietly and clap at the end, because it shows respect for their effort.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/246-music-practice-and-ball-safety/10/)
- [As the crowd thinned, the two boys had no one to perform for, and the shoving slowed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/393-bystanders/6/)
- [The Greeks invented theatre, with comedies and tragedies performed in great open-air theatres by actors wearing masks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/12-ancient-greece-democracy-olympics-myths-and-thinkers/14/)
- [Doping means athletes taking banned drugs to perform better; it cheats honest competitors and can badly harm health.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/44-cheating-rules-and-games/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «perform» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/perform/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.