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How to pronounce perform in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms do, execute
Has types rehearse, scamp, serenade, conduct, cut, star, stunt, cut corners, declaim, direct, extemporise, extemporize, blaze away, improvise, improvize, carry, interpret, lead, make, pipe up, churn out, click off, practice, practise, premier, premiere, ad-lib, recite, render, appear
Derivation performance
Type Words
Synonyms do
Type of action, execute, carry through, accomplish, carry out, fulfil, fulfill
Has types underachieve, turn, underperform, give one's best, go all out, ply, overachieve, misdo, do one's best, give full measure
Type Words
Type of re-create
Has types underperform, act, audition, barnstorm, concertise, concertize, conduct, debut, give, grandstand, interlude, play, play out, playact, rap, roleplay, sight-read, sightread, solo, try out
Derivation performance, performer, performing


Horowitz is performing at Carnegie Hall tonight.
We performed a popular Gilbert and Sullivan opera.
Type Words
Type of move, act
Has types officiate, church


Who will perform the wedding?.

Examples of perform

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He fondly recalls sitting in the audience and watching the elder Kahane perform.
From the denverpost.com
The six musicians in the Colorado-based ensemble will perform an original score.
From the online.wsj.com
Prior to each performance, the MTGlee choir will perform in the Playhouse lobby.
From the timesunion.com
Chances are the Perrys will perform the beautiful ballad for many years to come.
From the kentucky.com
With large comfortable areas, we can perform proper physical and mental therapy.
From the kentucky.com
That will be the trim instrumental format that Sanborn will perform in Saturday.
From the kentucky.com
We'll continue to work to get better so that we can perform better under stress.
From the dailyherald.com
Hussein would often beat Iraqi athletes who did not perform to his expectations.
From the time.com
In episode three, five women perform in a fashion show alongside working models.
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More examples
  • Carry out or perform an action; "John did the painting, the weeding, and he cleaned out the gutters"; "the skater executed a triple pirouette"; "she did a little dance"
  • Perform a function; "Who will perform the wedding?"
  • Give a performance (of something); "Horowitz is performing at Carnegie Hall tonight"; "We performed a popular Gilbert and Sullivan opera"
  • Do: get (something) done; "I did my job"
  • PerForm and PerForm PRO were electronic forms program, initially designed to work under GEM in DOS. Later versions of this program were designed to work on Windows 3.1, at which point it was succeeded in its product line by FormFlow.
  • To do something; to execute; To do something in front of an audience in order to entertain it
  • (Performed) by generally younger musicians and inspired by traditional country performers and the country reactionaries, it shunned the Nashville-dominated sound of mainstream country and borrowed more from punk and rock groups than the watered-down, pop-oriented sound of Nashville.
  • (performing) The fourth stage of group development when the group is fully functional.
  • (Performing) The fourth and final stage of the team process, in which teams work toward accomplishing their goals.