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# performance

«performance» in Mova's school dictionary: **a show of acting, music or dance in front of an audience** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a performance, performances; performance, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A performance is a show of acting, music or dance in front of an audience. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/performance/#m1)

2) Performance is how well someone or something does a job or task. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/performance/#m2)

3) A performance is the act of doing something. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/performance/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In school, there are performances of plays, concerts and dance shows. In sport and schoolwork, teachers talk about your performance in a test or a match. In everyday life, a car's or computer's performance is how fast and well it works. Phrases: "give a performance", "school performance", "good performance".

### examples

- Our school performance was a big success. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/performance/#x1)
- Tickets for the evening performance are sold out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/performance/#x2)
- Her performance in the test was excellent. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/performance/#x3)
- The team's performance improved after training. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/performance/#x4)
- The new computer has better performance. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/performance/#x5)
- He gave a brilliant performance as the wolf. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/performance/#x6)
- Before starting your performance, salute your audience!” [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/performance/#x7)

### note

Countable for shows ("three performances"), uncountable for how well something works. Ends in -ance, not -ence.

### In the corpora

- [A rehearsal is a practice session for a performance; a band cannot rehearse full songs if people do not turn up.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/4-starting-a-band/10/)
- [Feelings after a performance can be big and mixed, and feeling bad does not prove you sang badly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/8-singing-choirs-and-talent-shows/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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