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    [Performance]

    ** English

    [performance (disambiguation)]

    *** Alternative forms

    - [en] [obsolete]

    *** Etymology

    From [en]; equivalent to [en].[1]

    *** Pronunciation

    - [pər-fôrʹ-məns] - [en] - [en] - [en] - [en] - [en]

    *** Noun

    [~]

    1. The act of performing ; carrying into execution or action ; execution; achievement ; accomplishment ; representation by action. 2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1959 | author=w:Georgette Heyer | title=w:The Unknown Ajax | chapter=1 |passage=Charles had not been employed above six months at Darracott Place, but he was not such a whopstraw as to make the least noise in the PERFORMANCE of his duties when his lordship was out of humour.}}

    1. * [en] 2. That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or carried through; an achievement; a deed ; an act ; a feat ; especially, an action of an elaborate or public character. 3. [en] A live show or concert . 4. The amount of useful work accomplished estimated in terms of time needed, resources used, etc. 5. [en] The actual use of language in concrete situations by native speakers of a language, as opposed to the system of linguistic knowledge they possess ( [en] ), cf. 吴语: linguistic performance .

    **** Hyponyms

    {{col4|en|title=Hyponyms of _performance_ (arts) |command performance |concert |movie |play |show }}

    **** Derived terms

    [en]

    **** Related terms

    - [en]

    **** Collocations

    [2]

    - Adjectives often applied to "performance": < !-- by magnitude -->high, poor, improved, superior, excellent, good, peak, top, optimal, low, < !-- by area--> economic, academic, financial, musical, human, environmental, vocal, cognitive, dynamic, organizational, historical, physical, social, mechanical, electrical, mental, macroeconomic. [col-bottom]

    **** Descendants

    [top3]

    - [sq] - [ca] - [da] - [fr] - [de] - [it] - [ja] - [pt] - [es] - [sv] [bottom]

    **** Translations

    [the act of performing; carrying into execution or action; accomplishment]

    - Albanian: [sq] - Arabic: [ar] - Belarusian: [be] , [be] - Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg] - Catalan: [ca] , [ca] - Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs] - Dutch: [nl] - Esperanto: [eo] - Finnish: [fi] - French: [fr] , [fr] - Georgian: [ka] , [ka] , [ka] , [ka] , [ka] - German: [de] , [de] - Greek: [el] , [el] [of an obligation or duty] , [el] [of an athlete, performer, etc.] - Hungarian: [hu] , [hu] , [hu] - Italian: [it] , [it] - Latin: [la] , [la] - Polish: [pl] - Portuguese: [pt] - Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro] , [ro] - Russian: [ru] , [ru] - Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] - Swedish: [sv] , [sv] - Turkish: [tr] - Ukrainian: [uk] [trans-bottom]

    [that which is performed or accomplished]

    - Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg] - Catalan: [ca] , [ca] - Czech: [cs] - Finnish: [fi] , [fi] - French: [fr] , [fr] - German: [de] - Greek: [el] - Hungarian: [hu] , [informal] [hu] - Indonesian: [id] , [id] , [id] - Italian: [it] , [it] - Malay: [ms] - Portuguese: [pt] - Romanian: [ro] , [ro] , [ro] , [ro] - Russian: [ru] , [ru] - Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] [trans-bottom]

    [live show or concert]

    - Albanian: [sq] - Arabic: [ar] - Armenian: [hy] - Belarusian: [be] , [be] - Bulgarian: [bg] - Catalan: [ca] , [ca] , [ca] - Chinese: - Czech: [cs] , [cs] - Dutch: [nl] - Esperanto: [eo] - Estonian: [et] - Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi] , [fi] - French: [fr] , [fr] - Georgian: [ka] , [ka] , [ka] [colloquial] - German: [de] , [de] , [de] - Greek: [el] - Hebrew: [he] - Hungarian: [hu] - Indonesian: [id] , [id] - Italian: [it] , [it] - Japanese: [ja] , [ja] - Korean: [ko] , [ko] - Macedonian: [mk] , [mk] , [mk] - Malay: [ms] - Norwegian: [no] , [no] , [no] - Ottoman Turkish: [ota] - Polish: [pl] , [pl] - Portuguese: [pt] - Russian: [ru] , [ru] , [ru] - Serbo-Croatian: - Slovak: [sk] - Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] , [es] [masculine form used in the United States] - Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv] - Turkish: [tr] - Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] [trans-bottom]

    [amount of useful work accomplished]

    - Belarusian: [be] - Bulgarian: [bg] - Catalan: [ca] - Czech: [cs] , [cs] - Finnish: [fi] - French: [fr] - Georgian: [ka] , [ka] , [ka] , [ka] , [ka] - German: [de] , [de] - Greek: [el] - Hungarian: [hu] - Macedonian: [mk] - Polish: [pl] - Portuguese: [pt] , [pt] - Russian: [ru] , [ru] - Serbo-Croatian: - Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] [Latin America] - Swedish: [sv] - Ukrainian: [uk] , [uk] , [uk] [trans-bottom]

    [checktrans-top]

    - Irish: [ga] [trans-bottom]

    **** See also

    {{col|en|sort=0 |preformance<qq:common misspelling of _performance_> |preform<qq:common misspelling of _perform_> }}

    *** References

    - [R:OneLook] - [R:Keywords 21st] - [R:Century 1911]

    References: [1]. [pos=n] [en]

    ** Catalan

    *** Etymology

    [ca].

    *** Pronunciation

    - [ca]

    *** Noun

    [f]

    1. [en] [a live show or concert]

    *** References

    References: [1]. [pos=n]

    *** Further reading

    - [R:ca:GDLC]

    ** Dutch

    *** Etymology

    [nl].

    *** Pronunciation

    - [nl] - [nl] - [nl]

    *** Noun

    [f]

    1. [en] (act of performing) 2. [en] (that which is performed or accomplished) 3. [en] (live show) 4. [en] (amount of useful work accomplished)

    ** French

    *** Etymology

    [fr].

    *** Pronunciation

    - [fr-IPA] - [fr] - [fr] - [fr] - [fr]

    *** Noun

    [f]

    1. [fr] [en]

    **** Descendants

    - [tr]

    *** Further reading

    - [R:fr:TLFi]

    ** Italian

    [lang=it]

    *** Etymology

    [it].

    *** Pronunciation

    [perfòrmans < r:DiPI>]

    *** Noun

    [f]

    1. [en]

    **** Synonyms

    - [the act of performing] [it] - [accomplishment] [it] , [it] - [show] [it]

    *** References

    References: [1]. [pos=n]

    *** Further reading

    - [R:it:Treccani]

    ** Portuguese

    *** Alternative forms

    - [pt]

    *** Etymology

    [pt].

    *** Pronunciation

    [br=perfórmance]

    - [pt] - [pt]

    *** Noun

    [f]

    1. acting [en] 2. realization 3. feat 4. [pt] [en] [artistic manifestation based on staging that can combine dance, music, audiovisual media] 5. [pt] [en] [ manifestation of a speaker's linguistic competence]

    *** Further reading

    - [R:pt:Infopédia] - [R:pt:Priberam]

    ** Spanish

    *** Etymology

    [es].

    *** Pronunciation

    [perfórmans]

    *** Noun

    [mfequiv]

    1. performance art 2. [en] [amount of useful work accomplished]

    **** Usage notes

    [es-unadapted]

    *** Further reading

    - [R:es:DRAE] - [R:es:DAMER] - Diccionario de anglicismos del español estadounidense (see https://www.anle.us/noticias/publicaciones/diccionario-de-anglicismos-del-espanol-estadounidense/) [es]