Perform

Definition: Perform

Perform

Verb

1. To act or perform an action; "John did the painting, the weeding, and he cleaned out the gutters".

2. Perform a function; "Who will perform the wedding?".

3. Give a performance (of something); "Horowitz is performing at Carnegie Hall tonight"; "We performed a popular Gilbert and Sullivan opera".

4. Get (something) done; "I did my job".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "perform" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Note: Perform \Per*form"\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Performed; Performing.]. (references)

Computing

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Perform

Action

Verb: do, perform, execute; achieve; (complete); transact, enact; commit, perpetrate, inflict; exercise, prosecute, carry on, work, practice, play.

Be an actor; take a part in, act a part in, play a part in, perform a part in; participate in; have a hand in, have a finger in the pie; have to do with; be a party to, be a participator in; bear a hand, lend a hand; pull an oar, run in a race; mix oneself up with; (meddle).

Agency

Verb: be -in action; Adjective: operate, work; act, act upon; perform, play, support, sustain, strain, maintain, take effect, quicken, strike.

Business

Officiate, serve, act; act one's part, play one's part; do duty; serve the office of, discharge the office of, perform the office of, perform the duties of, perform the functions of; hold an office, fill an office, fill a place, fill a situation; hold a portfolio, hold a place, hold a situation.

Circuit

Verb: perform a circuit; go round about, go out of one's way; make a detour; meander; (deviate).

Completion

Despatch, dispatch; knock off, finish off, polish off; make short work of; dispose of, set at rest; perform, discharge, fulfill, realize; put in practice, put in force; carry out, carry into effect, carry into execution; make good; be as good as one's word.

Duty

Enter upon a duty, perform a duty, observe a duty, fulfill a duty, discharge a duty, adhere to a duty, acquit oneself of a duty, satisfy a duty, enter upon an obligation, perform an obligation, observe an obligation, fulfill an obligation, discharge an obligation, adhere to an obligation, acquit oneself of an obligation, satisfy an obligation; act one's part, redeem one's pledge, do justice to, be at one's post; do duty; do one's duty; (be virtuous).

Interment

Verb: inter, bury; lay in the grave, consign to the grave, lay in the tomb, entomb, in tomb; inhume; lay out, perform a funeral, embalm, mummify; toll the knell; put to bed with a shovel; inurn.

Observance

Verb: observe, comply with, respect, acknowledge, abide by; cling to, adhere to, be faithful to, act up to; meet, fulfill; carry out, carry into execution; execute, perform, keep, satisfy, discharge; do one's office.

Perform an obligation, fulfill an obligation, discharge an obligation, acquit oneself of an obligation; make good; make good one's word, make good one's promise, keep one's word, keep one's promise; redeem one's pledge; keep faith with, stand to one's engagement.

Production

Verb: produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture; weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel; build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up; establish, compose, organize, institute; achieve, accomplish; (complete).

Rite

Verb: perform service, do duty, minister, officiate, baptize, dip, sprinkle; anoint, confirm, lay hands on; give the sacrament, administer the sacrament; administer extreme unction; hear confession, administer holy penance, shrive; excommunicate, ban with bell book and candle.

The Drama

Verb: act, play, perform; put on the stage; personate; mimic; (imitate); enact; play a part, act a part, go through a part, perform a part; rehearse, spout, gag, rant; "strut and fret one's hour upon a stage"; tread the boards, tread the stage; come out; star it.

Utility

Act a part; (action); perform a function, discharge a function; render a service, render good service, render yeoman's service; bestead, stand one in good stead be the making of; help.

Virtue

Verb: be virtuous; Adjective: practice virtue;Noun: do one's duty, fulfill one's duty, perform one's duty, discharge one's duty; redeem one's pledge, keep one's promise; act well, act one's part; fight the good fight; acquit oneself well; command one's passions, master one's passions; keep in the right path.

Crosswords: Perform

We are going to perform an electronic cerebractomy (The Muppet Movie; writing credit: Jack Burns and Jerry Juhl)

Aren't you going to perform the last rites (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Hunt people down to perform amateur dental surgery (Dark Angel; writing credit: Ben Aaronovitch; Mark Ezra)

Perform a lobotomy, fine (The Christine Jorgensen Story; writing credit: Christine Jorgensen; Robert E. Kent)

Did you perform a ritual to promote growth (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay)

You're waiting for someone to perform with (Hey Jude (Lennon/McCartney); performing artist: The Beatles)

A child will perform from their mind for their coach teacher, but for a parent they perform from their heart. (references; author: unknown)

Forced to Perform (1992)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Baby E.R. : The Heroic Doctors and Nurses Who Perform Medicine's Tiniest Miracles (reference)

• Molly's Theater Kit: A Play About Molly for You and Your Friends to Perform (The American Girls Collection) (reference)

• The Gooch Machine: Poems for Children to Perform (reference)

• What a World!: A Musical for You and Your Friends to Perform (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Learn to Read Series W/Public Perform (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Neveu and Barbirolli Perform Sibelius (reference)

• Solitaire Perform the Carprenters: Greatest Hits (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Adtran T1 Esf Csu (Smart 16) Full Esf Perform Info For Smart16 S (reference)

• Smart & Friendly CDR 650MB 74Min For 1X To 6X Green with S&F Logo High Perform (reference)

• JBUILDER 8 PERFORM BNDL UPG FRM (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Illustration of prototype machine to perform mammography by Positron Emission Tomography (PET Scan). Since this machine is used solely for mammography, it is called Positron Emission Mammography (PEM). Credit: Joseph Frank, NIH Diagnostic Imaging.

Test chemicals from all sources are prepared in a series of dilutions, and the assay procedures are carried out by the technical staff. Robots, as seen in the photo, are used to perform some of the more routine and highly repetitious chores. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Post restoration, this image shows the cell that did not perform well after being planted with Spartina alterniflora. The platform was considered too high to promote colonization of Spartina. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The Thunderbirds, the U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Team, perform their famous diamond formation as they pass in review. (P.; photo by Staff Sgt. Kevin Gruenwald)..

Secretary of the Air Force, F. Whitten Peters hosted a group of educators recently and gave them an up-close look at the Air Force and the men and women behind the scenes who perform its mission day-to-day. (P.; photo by Staff Sgt. Angela Stafford)..

The U.S. Air Force Tops in Blue perform at the NFL Players Huddle Party at MacDill AFB, Fla., Jan. 23, 2001. People and aircraft from various bases around the nation to include a Charleston based C-17 "Globemaster" and the Thunderbird Aerodynami.

Earth Team Volunteers from Emory and Henry College in Virginia perform biological sampling as part of water quality testing techniques. Credit: Jeff Vanuga.

Dancers perform during an Hispanic Heritage activity at BLM's Eastern States Officer. Credit: Unknown.

Biologists perform fish inventory in Douglas Creek, Washington. Credit: Neal Hedges.

Students try to perform an activity with simulated impaired vision. Credit: National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

No constable shall compel any knight to give money in lieu of castle-guard, when he is willing to perform it in his own person, or (if he himself cannot do it from any reasonable cause) then by another responsible man. (reference)

The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as Congress may direct: A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a State; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment. (reference)

But when the legislature proceeds to impose on that officer other duties; when he is directed peremptorily to perform certain acts; when the rights of individuals are dependent on the performance of those acts; he is so far the officer of the law; is amenable to the laws for his conduct; and cannot at his discretion sport away the vested rights of others. (reference)

Such local Clearing Offices may perform all the functions of a central Clearing Office in their respective districts, except that all transactions with the Clearing Office in the Opposing State must be effected through the central Clearing Office. (reference)

Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I have a well-deserved reputation for being something of a gadget freak, and am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand

In this manner, Hester Prynne came to have a part to perform in the world

Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

Perform overview of margins and risk of relapse. (references)

Their lungs are therefore unable to perform gas exchange. (references)

Resist encouraging the child to perform verbally for people. (references)

Business

Duke Engineering & Services was selected to perform the feasibility study. (references)

Contracts can be terminated if the contractor fails to perform according to the terms. (references)

Testing centers accredited by the Ministry of Health perform technical and toxicology tests. (references)

Children

Angola

On August 7, the Ministry of Justice launched an 18-month campaign to register and provide identity papers to minors up to the age of 17 and announced that churches would be allowed to perform civil registration. (references)

Uganda

Boys also are more likely to finish primary school and perform better on the PLE. (references)

Cyprus

In the Greek Cypriot community, persons with disabilities who apply for a public sector position are entitled to preference if they are deemed able to perform the required duties and their qualifications equal those of other applicants. (references)

Civil Liberties

Kazakhstan

The prosecutor's appeal, aimed at only one of the seven area congregations, alleged that Jehovah's Witnesses had violated the constitution by such actions as calling on members to refuse to perform military service or honor national symbols. (references)

Oman

Four NGO's, all related to persons with disabilities, have been registered; government-sponsored women's associations perform some associative functions, but are completely dependent on government funding. (references)

Georgia

Religious groups that perform humanitarian services may be registered as charitable organizations, although religious and other organizations may perform humanitarian services without registration. (references)

Economic History

Russia

The result is that the Russian banking system largely fails to perform the basic role of financial intermediator, taking deposits and lending to business and individuals. (references)

Netherlands

In the case of staff personnel, however, Dutch nationals must be employed unless firms can demonstrate that a Dutch national cannot perform the job in question. (references)

Morocco

All potential investors in Morocco, exporters of goods, and service providers are strongly recommended to perform due diligence on, and check the "bona/fides" of their Moroccan agents, partners and customers (when extending credit). (references)

Human Rights

Colombia

Some perform administrative functions while in detention. (references)

Botswana

The bill also granted the Commissioner authority to allow citizen prisoners with sentences of 12 months or less to perform "extramural" labor. (references)

Kenya

In 2000 the Government instituted the Community Service Order (CSO), a program whereby petty offenders perform community service rather than serve a custodial sentence. (references)

Minorities

India

By custom Dalits may be required to perform tasks for upper caste Hindus without remuneration. (references)

Uruguay

The National Institute of Statistics found that blacks earn an average of 20 percent less than whites who perform the same job. (references)

Togo

Many citizens believe that Nigerian Ibos kill young women, drain their blood, and steal their sex organs to perform voodoo to accumulate wealth, health, or protection. (references)

Political Economy

Burundi

Soldiers required persons, including children, mostly Hutus, to perform forced labor. (references)

Vietnam

At their brief meetings, which occur only several days a year, the Councils perform nominal legislative functions at the local level and provide a forum for local concerns to be expressed. (references)

BELGIUM

Sectors that are expected to perform relatively well in this downturn of the business cycle are energy, pharmaceuticals, and distribution. (references)

Political Rights

Burkina Faso

Despite some allegations of fraud, the vote was held without disruption and the CENI generally had adequate staff and personnel to perform its duties. (references)

Kenya

Most councils lack sufficient financial autonomy and revenues to perform adequately even these limited functions. (references)

Turkey

Elected HADEP officials were able to perform their duties during the year. (references)

Trade

Georgia

The on-going customs reform implemented with assistance of western consultants is expected to bring customs operation in compliance with the Customs Code of 1997 and Law on Customs Tariffs of 1998. Pre-import certification was introduced in mid-1999 by the British firm contracted to perform this function. (references)

Guatemala

All institutions that perform intermediary functions must be authorized by the Superintendence of Banks, but compliance has been irregular. (references)

Dominican Rep

The revision would remove the restrictions for the incorporation of foreign capital banks and will allow the incorporation of a Dominican company wholly owned by foreign investors as well as the opening of branches of foreign banks to perform banking operations or simply to serve as agencies for the purposes of information or placement of funds. (references)

Travel

Colombia

There are an increasing number of "cajeros automaticos" (automatic teller machines) which accept international credit cards (such as Visa, MasterCard, and American Express, among others), and perform exchange transactions to provide Colombian pesos. (references)

Uk

Entry may be denied to those who intend to perform productive services unless a work permit has been issued in advance to their employer. (references)

Australia

In major cities, opera, ballet, and theater companies perform throughout the year. (references)

Women

New Zealand

In 1996 the Government made it illegal to perform FGM or to remove a child from the country to carry out the procedure; it is punishable by up to 7 years in prison. (references)

Russia

Women continue to report cases in which they are paid less for the same work that male colleagues perform. (references)

Rwanda

Women traditionally perform most of the subsistence farming. (references)

Worker Rights

Philippines

In February a court in Quezon City convicted a bar owner of employing minors to perform lewd shows. (references)

Russia

Reportedly military officers have sent soldiers under their charge to work on farms to gather food for their units or perform work for private citizens or organizations. (references)

Tunisia

Nonetheless, young children often perform agricultural work in rural areas and work as vendors in urban areas, primarily during the summer vacation from school. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "perform": failure to perform sex ♦ it is one thing to promise and another to perform ♦ perform a circuit ♦ perform a funeral service ♦ perform a part ♦ perform a postmortem on ♦ perform an evil deed ♦ perform an experiment ♦ perform an operation ♦ perform as an encore ♦ perform in a play ♦ perform magic ♦ perform official duties ♦ perform on the flute ♦ perform one's duty ♦ perform operation ♦ perform perfunctorily ♦ perform quickly ♦ perform the last offices ♦ perform tricks ♦ perform well ♦ perform wonders. Additional references.

Beginning with "perform": perform-ance.

Ending with "perform": out-perform.

Afrikaans

vervaardig (achieve, act, carry out, do, fabricate, make, manufacture), verskyn (appear, emerge), pleeg (achieve, act, carry out, do, make), maak (achieve, act, carry out, do, make), doen (achieve, act, carry out, do, make, to do), begaan (accomplish, achieve, act, carry out, do, keep, make, observe, tread, walk, walk upon), bedrywe (accomplish, achieve, act, carry out, do, keep, make, observe), bedryf (accomplish, achieve, act, carry out, certificate, diploma, do, document, enterprise, handicraft, keep, make, observe, occupation, profession, trade). (various references)

Albanian

plotësoj (amplify, appease, complement, complete, consummate, draw, fill, fill in, fill up, flesh, fulfil, fulfill, grant, gratify, indulge, make good, make out, make up, meet, perfect, process, realize, refill, replenish, satisfy, supplement, supply), përmbush (accomplish, consummate, execute, fill, fulfil, fulfill, gratify), sillem (behave, comport, conduct oneself, demean, deport, deport oneself, do, handle, move about, Potter, quit, walk), mbaj (attach, Bate, bear, breed, carry, deduct, enshrine, force upon, get off, give, have, have smth. on, hold, keep, keep on, maintain, man, pitch, preserve, refrain, respect, retain, save, support, sustain, wear, withhold), luaj (act, come, enact, fidget with, fool about, fool around, game, interpret, palter, personate, play, playact, toy, twiddle, wiggle, wriggle), kryej (accomplish, achieve, act, carry out, carry through, commit, despatch, discharge, dispatch, do, effect, effectuate, execute, face it out, fill, fulfil, fulfill, perfect, process, prosecute, put through, wage), interpretoj (construe, explain, interpret, personate, play, portray, read, take), hyj (come, come in, enter, get in, go, go in, penetrate, shrink, soak, turn in), funksionon, ekzekutoj (execute), bëj (achieve, act, beget, carry into effect, carry on, carry out, carry through, catch, cause, commit, create, do, effect, effectuate, fabricate, grow, have, make, make up, navigate, pay, perpetrate, proceed, render, study, transact, wage, wreak), aderoj (adhere, associate, come together, enter, go in, join, pool). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مارس (carry out, engage in, execute, exercise, fulfil, fulfill, march, operate, practice, pursue, set one's hand to), ‏مثل دور في مسرحية, ‏مثل (act, adage, aphorism, appear, as, be a symbol for, be typical of, byword, case, depict, describe, example, exemplify, gnome, illustrate, illustration, instance, like, like this, maxim, play, play act, portray, proverb, represent, saying, sculpt, show, stand before, stand for, such, such as, symbolize, typify), ‏نفذ (act, activate, be executed, carry into effect, carry out, come true, commit, computerize, do, effect, effectuate, enforce, execute, fill, fulfil, fulfill, honor, honour, implement, invoke, penetrate, percolate, permeate, petering, pierce, practise, proceed, pursue, put into effect, realize, transfix, traverse), ‏نجز (accomplish, achieve, be executed, compass, complete, do, encompass, execute, finalize, finish, fulfil, fulfill, gain, get hold of, get on, implement, negotiate, perfect, polish off, pull off, put across, realize), ‏غنى (affluence, chant, croon, enrich, make money, opulence, render, riches, richness, sang, sing, sung, warble, wealth), ‏عزف (execute, fiddle, lute, pick, play, play away, render, set a piano, strike), ‏أدى (bring, bring about, conduct, do, execute, fulfil, fulfill, function, give rise to, go, put on, result), ‏رقص (choreography, dance, dancing, dandle, foot, frisk, hop, limbo, trip). (various references)

Bulgarian 

свиря (blare, chime, finger, grind, pipe, play, sing, tune), работя (operate, run, serve, work), функционирам (function, functionate, operate, tick), отслужвам (hold), представям (deliver, depicture, deputize, exhibit, image, impersonate, introduce, offer, present, project, put in, recommend, represent, show, stage, typify), пея (chant, descant, jug, pipe, sing, vocalize), играя (act, dance, disport oneself, do, enact, lead, play, present, represent, run about, shoot, sport, support, twitch, wanton, waver), извършвам (achieve, act, bring about, effect, execute, pull, put through, transact, turn off), изпълнявам (accomplish, accord, act up to, carry into effect, carry out, complete, effectuate, execute, exercise, fill, fulfil, fulfill, handle, implement, make up, play, practise, pursue, put into effect, put through, redeem, satisfy, verify). (various references)

Catalan

fer (achieve, act, carry out, do, make, to do, to make). (various references)

Chinese 

表演 (act, demonstrate, exhibition, performance, play, show), 演出 (play), 执行 (Administer, Administered, Administering, Enforcement, execute, Executed, Executing, Performed, Performing). (various references)

Czech

provést (accomplish, carry out, effect, execute, exercise, finish, make, realize, render, ride out, see it through, show, undertake), pracovat (act, engage in, function, go out to work, labor, labour, operate, work, work at), přednést (execute, refer, report, state), vykonat (accomplish, carry out, discharge, effectuate, execute, implement, mete out, push through, render), splnit (accomplish, carry out, discharge, fulfil, fulfill, implement, keep, redeem, satisfy), hrát (act, appear, play), fungovat (behave, function, functionate, go, operate, run, work). (various references)

Danish

gøre (achieve, act, carry out, do, make). (various references)

Dutch

opdraven (appear, emerge), opdagen (appear, emerge). (various references)

Esperanto

prezenti (introduce, present), plenumi (accomplish, achieve, keep, observe), fari (act, do, make), eniri (enter, go in), aperi (appear, emerge). (various references)

Faeroese

koma (appear, appearance, arrive, come, emerge, end up, get), gera (achieve, act, activate, build, carry out, cause, construct, do, form, get, give rise to, make, shape, take action), fullføra (accomplish, achieve, keep, observe), fara inn (enter, go in). (various references)

Farsi 

نمایش دادن (Act, Display, Enact, Execute, Exhibit, Expose, Represent), کردن (Braid, Do, Fold, Gig, Grade, Ground, Hatch, Have, Hinder, Joint, List, Lob, Pass, Peer, Pickup, Poop, Ramble, Rest, Set, Settle, Stick, Tag, Thread, Tip), ایفاکردن , انجام دادن (Accomplish, Achieve, Administer, Complete, Consummate, Do, Implement, Pay), اجراکردن (Administer, Apply, Effect, Enforce, Execute, Exert), بجااوردن (Pay), بازی کردن 2 (Foul, Move, Play, Sport, Toy, Twiddle). (various references)

Finnish

tehdä (accomplish, achieve, act, carry out, cause, commit, do, draw up, execute, get, make). (various references)

French

faire, effectuer, réaliser, construire, accomplir. (various references)

Frisian

oanmeitsje (achieve, act, carry out, do, make), ferskine (appear, emerge), dwaen (achieve, act, carry out, do, make). (various references)

German

vollbringen (accomplish, achieve, to accomplish, work), verrichten (carry out, do), leisten (accomplish, achieve, afford, do, effect, goof, groins, inguinal, keep, last, ledges, manage, observe, put out, render, to achieve, to afford), funktionieren (act, function, operate, operation, tick, to work, work, work out, wrought), erfüllen (accomplish, achieve, carry out, carry through, come up to, comply, comply with, discharge, fill, fill in, fill up, fulfil, fulfill, imbue, implement, impregnate, inform, keep, make, meet, observe, pervade, preoccupy, prepossess, redeem, satisfy, serve, to comply, transfuse), ausführen (accomplish, achieve, act out, argue, carry out, carry through, do, execute, executing, expedite, explain, explicate, export, go through with, handle, implement, instrument, keep, obey, observe, parade, performing, set out, take for a walk, to accomplish, to achieve, to effect, to expedite, to export, to realize, undertake, walk), aufführen (cite, enact, introduce, list, offer, present, put on, schedule, stage, tender, urge). (various references)

Greek 

εκτελώ (carry out, do, enact, execute, implement, put through, transact, wreak). (various references)

Hawaiian

hyj (enter, go in), aderoj (associate, come together, enter, go in, join, pool). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפעול (accomplish, achieve, act, do, function, influence, make, work), להוציא לפועל (accomplish, carry into effect, effectuate, execute, implement, manage, put into effect, put into practice), לבצע תפקיד (impersonate, render), לבצע (achieve, act, carry out, commit, do, drive, execute, render). (various references)

Hungarian

teljesít (accomplish, achieve, comply, consummate, fulfil, fulfill, implement, keep, observe, satisfy, to accomplish, to carry out, to comply with, to deliver the goods, to follow the sea, to fulfil, to get through, to implement, to make good, to perform, to vouchsafe, vouchsafe). (various references)

Icelandic

koma í ljós (appear, emerge), gera (achieve, act, carry out, do, make). (various references)

Indonesian

memperdengarkan, melakukan (bring about, carry out, commit, make, perpetrate, undertake), main, gebyak (stage). (various references)

Irish

taispeÚin (appear, emerge), taibhsigh (appear, emerge), nocht (appear, emerge), lÚithrigh (appear, emerge), déantús (achieve, act, make), déanamh (achieve, act, make). (various references)

Italian

fare (achieve, act, be, build, carry out, construct, do, execute, fashion, get, go in for, have, kind, make, manner, produce, put in, shall, should, sort, species, to do, to make, type), eseguire (accomplish, achieve, act, carry out, do, execute, fulfil, fulfill, give, keep, observe), compiere (accomplish, achieve, carry out, carry through, come true, complete, discharge, do, effect, encompass, end, exert, fill, finish, fulfil, fulfill, have, implement, keep, make, observe), apparire (appear, dawn, emerge, look, manifest, pop up, show), entrare (come in, enter, entry, espousal, eventuate, eventuation, get in, go, go in, go out, join, occur, soak in, step in, to enter, walk in), commettere (achieve, act, carry out, commit, do, make). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

行う (to carry out, to conduct oneself, to do, to perform), 施す (to apply, to conduct, to donate, to give, to perform), 成す (to accomplish, to perform). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おこなう (to carry out, to conduct oneself, to do, to perform), なす (aubergine, eggplant, to accomplish, to do, to make, to perform), そせんのれいをまつる (to perform religious services for the departed souls of one's ancestors), まいをまう (to dance, to perform a dance), つるぎのやまをのぼる (to perform a hazardous deed), ほどこす (to apply, to conduct, to donate, to give, to perform), あげる (to admit, to advance, to arrange, to arrest, to bear, to do up, to elevate, to engage, to finish, to fly, to fry, to give, to improve, to increase, to leave with, to lift, to mention, to observe, to offer, to perform, to praise, to present, to promote, to quote, to raise, to send, to stop, to usher in, to vomit), あとをとむらう (to perform religious rites for the repose of a soul), らいえん (assistance, come to perform, support), やる (to dispatch, to do, to give, to have, to have sexual intercourse, to kill, to perform, to play, to row, to run or operate, to send, to study), げきをえんじる (to perform a play), えんずる (to perform, to play), えんじる (to act, to commit, to perform, to play). (various references)

Korean 

실행하십시요 (Practise). (various references)

Malay

masuk (enter, go in). (various references)

Manx

jannoo (accomplish, accomplishment, act, build, cast, coalesce, commit, committal, compose, conferment, conformation, construct, construction, create, deal, deed, do, effect, execute, fabricate, fashion, fend, fill, follow out, formation, goings on, keep, make, manufacture, performance, performing, perpetrate, perpetration, persuance, practise, produce, production, render; doing, structure, style, transact, transaction, transactions), cloie (act, boil, bubble, charade, enact, event, extemporise, game, match, monkey, performance, play, represent, skylark, sport). (various references)

Norwegian

gjøre (achieve, act, carry out, do, make). (various references)

Papiamen

hasi (achieve, act, carry out, do, make), drenta (come into, enter, go in), cumpli (accomplish, achieve, keep, observe), aparesé (appear, emerge). (various references)

Pidgin English

sabi (can, to perform). (various references)

Pig Latin

erformpay.(various references)

Polish

pojawiać się (appear, emerge), wykonać (accomplish, achieve, keep, observe), wejść (enter, go in), spełnić (accomplish, achieve, keep, observe), robić (achieve, act, carry out, do, make), czynić (achieve, act, carry out, do, make). (various references)

Portuguese

fazer (achieve, act, bows, cause, create, do, effect, fulfil, fulfill, make, making, manufacture, produce, render, to do, to make, wage), cumprir (abide by, accomplish, achieve, carry out, comply with, fulfil, fulfill, implement, keep, obey, observe, satisfy), apresentar (announce, bring forward, bring out, bring up, come up with, demonstrate, exhibit, give, herald, introduce, lodge, preface, prefer, present, produce, proffer, propone, propound, put, put on the stage, render, represent, serve, show, tender, to present, turn in, wear), aparecer (appear, be published, come on, come to light, emerge, hang out, rise, show, show up, to appear, turn up). (various references)

Romanian

face (achieve, act, anoint, appoint, be, be up to smth., bear, build, carry out, commit, compose, conclude, cook, cost, create, cut, dispense, do, does, draw, drive, effect, form, give, give forth, grow, happen, have, hold, induce, it does, keep, lead, leave, let, make, move, perpetrate, persuade, prepare, produce, prompt, render, say, scoop in, strike, work, write, yield). (various references)

Russian 

выполнять (accomplish, achieve, carry out, do, effect, execute, fulfil, fulfill, honor, honour, outputs, performed, put through, redeem, satisfy, transact). (various references)

Scottish

dèan (achieve, act, carry out, do, make). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vršiti (administer, do, exert, practice, practise, pursue), učiniti (act for, make, render), svirati (play), raditi (do, labor, labour, operate, practise, work), ostvariti (accomplish, achieve, actualize, bring about, carry out, compass, cotton on, effect, effectuate, materialize, objectify, realize), izvršiti (accomplish, carry out, carry through, commit, execute, implement, perpetrate), izvoditi, izvesti (bring out, derive, embroider, export, present, realize, stage, take out), igrati (act, dance, personate, play, play at, take, twitch), dejstvovati (act, enure, take effect). (various references)

Spanish

hacer (accomplish, achieve, act, administer, advance, ask, be, bestow, bind, bring, bring in, build, carry out, cause, come, commit, compose, compound, create, cut, cut out, do, draw, drive, drop, effect, emit, enter into, enter up, fabricate, force, form, generate, get, get out, give, go at, hole, keep, knock out, lay, lean, level, light, live, live through, lumber, lure on, make, make into, make up, making, observe, offer, pack, pass, pay, perpetrate, place, poke, prosecute, pull, punch, put, put forward, put out, put up, render, set off, tackle, take, take on, think up, throw, throw in, throw out, throw up, tie, to do, to make, to make into, travel, turn out, wet, work, work out), entrar (access, approach, attack, bob in, bring in, call in, capture, come in, draw in, enter, fit, get at, get in, go in, go up, input, introduce, invade, march in, pass in, pull in, put in, rise, sail in, show in, step in, tackle, to enter, wade in, walk in), ejecutar (accomplish, carry through, discharge, enforce, execute, implement, knock off, live up, run). (various references)

Sranan

meki (achieve, act, carry out, do, make), du (achieve, act, carry out, do, make). (various references)

Swedish

utföra (accomplish, achieve, bring to pass, carry into effect, do, execute, export, fulfil, fulfill, implement), uppträda (act, appear, bear, behave, go, play), uppfylla (answer, carry out, comply with, discharge, fill, fill in, fill up, fulfil, fulfill, imbue, live up to, meet, satisfy), uppföra (act, behave, build, do, enact, enter, erect, put down, raise, set up), förrätta (conduct, execute, hold, officiate). (various references)

Tagalog

gawín (achieve, act, carry out, do, make). (various references)

Turkish

yapmak (accomplish, achieve, acquit oneself, act, architect, build, carry out, carve out, contrive, create, do, engineer, establish, execute, fashion, father, fulfil, fulfill, get, go over, go through, have, implement, land, make, perpetrate, ply, practice, practise, produce, profess, put on, put through, set, take, transact, turn out, weave). (various references)

Turkmen 

зykyюetmek (make a speech). (various references)

Ukrainian

грати (bar, bars, blow, grating, lattice, play), виконувати (administer, administrate, answer, carry out, comply, dispense, do, effect, effectuate, execute, fulfil, full, implement, obey, play, put into effect, render, solve, tender). (various references)

Welsh

gwneud (achieve, act, do, make), cywiro (amend, correct, make good), cyflawni (accomplish, achieve, commit, fulfill). (various references)

Yucatec

okol (enter, go in), metik (achieve, act, carry out, do, make), mentik (achieve, act, carry out, do, make), hook'ol (appear, emerge), beetik (achieve, act, carry out, do, make). (various references)

Zulu

-ngena (enter, go in), -enza (achieve, act, carry out, do, make). (various references)

adimpleo, apparere, comparere, confecta, confectaeque, confectum, confectus, confici, conficiat, conficiente, conficiet, eice, eicere, eicerent, eiceret, eiciam, eiciant, eiciat, eiciebant, eiciebat, eiciens, eicient, eicientem, eicientes, eicientur, eiciet, eicio, eicis, eicit, eicite, eicitur, eiciunt, exsecuti, exsecutores, exsequeretur, exsequimur, exsolvistis, facere, facio, functique, functus, fungantur, fungaris, fungatur, fungebantur, fungebatur, fungens, fungerentur, fungeretur, fungi, fungimur, fungor, fungor, fungi, functus, fungor; fungi; functus, impleo, inoperantur, operabantur, operaberis, operabitur, operabor, operabuntur, operamini, operando, operandum, operans, operantem, operantes, operanti, operantibus, operantium, operantur, operare, operarentur, operaretur, operari, operaris, operata, operati, operator, operatorem, operatum, operatur, operatus, operatusque, operemini, operemur, operetur, operor, patro, perfungar, perpetro, praesta, praestabant, praestabat, praestabit, praestabo, praestans, praestant, praestare, praestares, praestaret, praestas, praestat, praestate, praestatis, praestatur, praestes, praestet, praestiterit, praestiterunt, praestiti, praestitisset, praestitisti, praestitit, praestititque, praesto, praesto presto, praestoque, tractare. (various references)

varez-. (various references)

began, dreogan. (various references)

practicare. (various references)

parfornir. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "perform": performabilities, performability, performable, performance, performances, performative, performatives, performatory, performed, performer, performers, performing, performs. (additional references)

Words ending with "perform": outperform. (additional references)

Words containing "perform": nonperformance, nonperformances, nonperformer, nonperformers, nonperforming, outperformed, outperforming, outperforms, preperformance, preperformances, unperformable, unperformed. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Perform" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: peform, Perdomo, perfo, perfomr, perfor, performa, performe, perforn, Perfrx, perfury, perom, Peurorum, prefor, preform, puerorum, Pyrford. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: preform.

-1 letter: former, reform, romper.

-2 letters: forme, frore, moper, ormer, proem, repro, roper.

-3 letters: fore, form, froe, from, mope, more, omer, perm, poem, pome, pore, prof, prom, repo, romp, rope.

-4 letters: emf, err, fem, fer, foe, fop, for, fro, mop, mor, ope, ore, per, pom, pro, ref, rem, rep, roe, rom.

-5 letters: ef, em, er, me, mo.

+1 letter: performs, preforms.

+2 letters: germproof, performed, performer, preformat, preformed.

+3 letters: outperform, performers, performing, permafrost, preformats, preforming.

+4 letters: imperforate, mothproofer, outperforms, performable, performance, permafrosts, tamperproof, unperformed.

+5 letters: flameproofer, mothproofers, nonperformer, outperformed, performances, performative, performatory, preformation, preformatted, preformulate.