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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)

 

Specialty Definition: Perform

DomainDefinition

Computing

PERFORM A COBOL statement used for executing "paragraphs". [What's a paragraph?] (1997-06-10). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.

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

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Specialty Definition: Performance

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

A performance is an event in which generally one group of people (the performer or performers) behave in a particular way for the benefit of another group of people (the viewer or viewers, or audience). Sometimes the dividing line between performer and audience is blurred, as in the example of "participatory theatre" where audience members might be involved in the theatrical event.

Examples of perfomance genres include:

Performances might take place daily, or at some other regular interval.

Similar activties can take place in a religious or occult setting whereby the performance becomes a ritual. In a scientific setting, the carrying out of predetermined actions in a controlled environment is the performance of an experiment.

A music performance is called a concert or a recital. It may be indoors in a concert hall or outdoors in a field, and people may be required to be very quiet, or they may be able to sing and dance along with the music. In a street concert by one or more street musicians, often the public consists of people who happen to pass by; paying is not compulsory, but welcomed.

Similarly street performances are carried out by other street artists, e.g. performing acrobatics. The same applies in other public places.

The word is also used to describe the 'performance' of an actor(ess), or artiste in such a production. Or in a solo capacity; such as a mime artist, comedian, conjurer, etc.

See also Performance art.

Some special concerts:

Performance, in a business context, refers to the activity of a unit (be it individual, team, department, or division) of an organization intended to accomplish some desired result.

Also see

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Synonyms: Perform

Synonyms: do (v), execute (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Perform

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

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.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Perform

Etymologies containing "perform": Vivisect. (references)

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Modern Usage: Perform

DomainUsage

Screenplays

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)

Lyrics

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

Clever

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

Movie/TV Titles

Forced to Perform (1992)

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

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Commercial Usage: Perform

DomainTitle

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

  

High Tech

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

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Image Slideshow: Perform

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Photo Album: Perform

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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.

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Digital Photo Gallery: Perform
 

"Gig shots 10" by Guiga Müller
Commentary: "Lead singer wearing a wig and a feather boah to perform "I will survive"!!! I wish you could see this live...it's hilarious!."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: Perform

AuthorQuotation

Benjamin Franklin

Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.

Cato

Attempt only what you are able to perform.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Trust in the person's promise, who dares to refuse what they fear they cannot perform.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Wise to resolve, patient to perform.
He who considers too much will perform little.

Martin Luther

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Publilius Syrus

Never promise more than you can perform.

The Koran

God obligeth no man to more than he hath given him ability to perform.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Perform

AuthorDateQuotation

Magna Carta

1215

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)

Amendment to US Constitution

1795-2016

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)

Marbury v. Madison

1803

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)

Treaty of Versailles

1919

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)

United Nations

1948

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.

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Use in Literature: Perform

TitleAuthorQuote

Last Chance To See

Douglas Adams

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

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

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

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Perform

SubjectTopicQuote

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)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition. "I was in the drawing-room, enjoying my dinner," said Brillat- Savarin, beginning an anecdote. "What!" interrupted Rochebriant; "eating dinner in a drawing-room?" "I must beg you to observe, monsieur," explained the great gastronome, "that I did not say I was eating my dinner, but enjoying it. I had dined an hour before."

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

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Spoken Usage: Perform

SpeakerPhrase(s)

David Gest

I think if we could have shown our reality, Liza with Ray Charles. Even Liza with Kelly. Anybody, because she did want to perform, and said she would come back, it would have been so much fun for the viewers to watch.

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

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Speeches: Perform

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

John Quincy Adams

1825-1829During the last summer a detachment of the Army has been usefully and successfully called to perform their appropriate duties.

Andrew Jackson

1829-1837Experience continues to realize the expectations entertained as to the capacity of the State banks to perform the duties of fiscal agents for the Government at the time of the removal of the deposits.

Abraham Lincoln

1861-1865Doing this I deem to be only a simple duty on my part, and I shall perform it so far as practicable unless my rightful masters, the American people, shall withhold the requisite means or in some authoritative manner direct the contrary.

Ulysses S. Grant

1869-1877I did not ask for place or position, and was entirely without influence or the acquaintance of persons of influence, but was resolved to perform my part in a struggle threatening the very existence of the nation.

Woodrow Wilson

1913-1921United alike in the conception of our duty and in the high resolve to perform it in the face of all men, let us dedicate ourselves to the great task to which we must now set our hand.

Dwight Eisenhower

1953-1961Only as we show willingness and wisdom in giving counsel--in receiving counsel--and in sharing burdens, will we wisely perform the work of peace.

Gerald Ford

1974-1977Our survival as a free and independent people requires, above all, strong military forces that are well equipped and highly trained to perform their assigned mission.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981Recent agreement to increase quotas by fifty percent will ensure the IMF has sufficient resources to perform its central role in promoting adjustment and financing payments imbalances.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989With faith and courage, we can perform great deeds and take freedom's next step.

George W. Bush

2001-2005Schools that perform poorly will be noticeable and given time, and given incentives, and given resources to improve.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Perform

"Perform" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 75.68% of the time. "Perform" is used about 3,159 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)75.68%2,3903,739
Lexical Verb (base form)24.32%7688,957
                    Total100.00%3,159N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Perform

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.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "perform": perform-ance.

Ending with "perform": out-perform.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Perform

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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ExpressionFrequency
per Day

perform

156

perform salat

6

perform oral sex

130

perform hypnosis

5

perform cunnilingus

49

14551 cannot dml inside operation ora perform query

5

perform better

38

marriage perform

4

perform fellatio

36

cunninglus perform

4

perform anal sex

20

inc perform

4

perform oral sex on a woman

20

could endtrack not perform

4

ensure laboratory material perform services will

17

current does perform site

4

perform cpr

17

craft perform witch

4

could fixation not perform

15

could fixation nero not perform

4

perform pro

9

child perform play

4

does filing perform present system

9

530 authentication before identifying must perform user

4

perform oral sex on a man

9

dance lap perform

4

filler perform pro

9

perform wall

4

perform sex

8

anchor bass best boat opinion perform recommend

3

perform a wedding

8

perform telekinesis

3

perform serve

8

auto fellatio perform

3

perform blow job

7

equipment needed pasteurization perform

3

ceremony perform wedding

6

badly optimizations perform poor regardless site

3

perform oral sex on a female

6

exorcism perform

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Perform

Language Translations for "perform"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

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</