PERFORMING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does performing mean? 

• PERFORMING (noun)
  The noun PERFORMING has 1 sense:

1. the performance of a part or role in a drama

  Familiarity information: PERFORMING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERFORMING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The performance of a part or role in a drama

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

acting; performing; playacting; playing

Hypernyms ("performing" is a kind of...):

activity (any specific behavior)

performing arts (arts or skills that require public performance)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "performing"):

characterization; enactment; personation; portrayal (acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture)

impersonation; personation (imitating the mannerisms of another person)

method; method acting (an acting technique introduced by Stanislavsky in which the actor recalls emotions or reactions from his or her own life and uses them to identify with the character being portrayed)

dumb show; mime; pantomime (a performance using gestures and body movements without words)

business; byplay; stage business (incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect)

skit (a short theatrical episode)

hamming; overacting (poor acting by a ham actor)

heroics (ostentatious or vainglorious or extravagant or melodramatic conduct)

reenactment (performing a role in an event that occurred at an earlier time)

roleplaying (acting a particular role (as in psychotherapy))

Holonyms ("performing" is a part of...):

performance (the act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment)

Derivation:

perform (give a performance (of something))

 Context examples 

And I really believe he HAS the most delicate conscience in the world; the most scrupulous in performing every engagement, however minute, and however it may make against his interest or pleasure.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Performing the work required a spectrum-spanning raman-atomic force microspectrometric system.

(Cell chemistry illuminated by laser light, National Science Foundation)

Performing a review of the records and processes used to render a product free from viable microorganisms.

(Device Sterilization Process Review Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

Leonov was famous for performing the first human spacewalk as part of the Soviet Union's Voskhod 2 mission.

(Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov dies at age 85, Wikinews)

The Microarray Shared Resource supports Cancer Center research activity performing gene expression profiling in which the activity of many thousands of genes is measured simultaneously.

(Microarray Shared Resource, NCI Thesaurus)

A 13-item, symptom-specific subscale of the FACIT scales that uses a 5-point Likert scale to measure a person's self-reported fatigue while performing normal daily activities.

(FACIT Fatigue Scale, NCI Thesaurus)

A numeric scale to assess the severity of an individual's fatigue over the past week while performing a variety of usual tasks.

(Fatigue Severity Scale, NCI Thesaurus)

Actions that render a patient unconscious for the purpose of performing a diagnostic or interventional procedure.

(General Anesthesia Procedure, NCI Thesaurus)

Performing a review of the storage and shipping processes and requirements.

(Device Storage and Shipment Review Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)

Performing a review the technical and corresponding administrative actions and records intended to retain an item in, or restore it to, a state in which it can perform its required function.

(Device Maintenance Review Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)