A dramatic or musical entertainment:
— They listened to ten different performances.
— The play ran for 100 performances.
— The frequent performances of the symphony testify to its popularity.

synoniem: public presentation.

Roget 161: production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture; building, architecture, erection, edification; coinage; diaster^†; organization; nisus formativus [Lat.]; putting together etc. v.; establishment; workmanship, performance; achievement etc. (completion) 729.    flowering, fructification; inflorescence.    bringing forth etc. v.; parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics; geniture^†; gestation etc. (maturation) 673; assimilation; evolution, development, growth; entelechy [Phil.]; fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy [Biol.], genesis, generation, epigenesis^†, procreation, progeneration^†, propagation; fecundation, impregnation; albumen etc. 357.    spontaneous generation; archegenesis^†, archebiosis^†; biogenesis, abiogenesis^†, digenesis^†, dysmerogenesis^†, eumerogenesis^†, heterogenesis^†, oogenesis, merogenesis^†, metogenesis^†, monogenesis^†, parthenogenesis, homogenesis^†, xenogenesis1^†; authorship, publication; works, opus, oeuvre.    biogeny^†, dissogeny^†, xenogeny^†; tocogony^†, vacuolization.    edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 599: the drama, the stage, the theater, the play; film the film, movies, motion pictures, cinema, cinematography; theatricals, dramaturgy, histrionic art, buskin, sock, cothurnus^†, Melpomene and Thalia, Thespis.    play, drama, stage play, piece [Fr.], five-act play, tragedy, comedy, opera, vaudeville, comedietta^†, lever de rideau [Fr.], interlude, afterpiece^†, exode^†, farce, divertissement, extravaganza, burletta^†, harlequinade^†, pantomime, burlesque, opera bouffe [Fr.], ballet, spectacle, masque, drame comedie drame [Fr.]; melodrama, melodrame^†; comidie larmoyante [Fr.], sensation drama; tragicomedy, farcical-comedy; monodrame monologue; duologue trilogy^†; charade, proverbs; mystery, miracle play; musical, musical comedy.    [movies] western, horse opera; flick [Coll.]; spy film, love story, adventure film, documentary, nature film; pornographic film, smoker, skin flick, X-rated film.    act, scene, tableau; induction, introduction; prologue, epilogue; libretto.    performance, representation, mise en scene [Fr.], stagery^†, jeu de theatre [Fr.]; acting; gesture etc. 550; impersonation etc. 554; stage business, gag, buffoonery.    light comedy, genteel comedy, low comedy.    theater; playhouse, opera house; house; music hall; amphitheater, circus, hippodrome, theater in the round; puppet show, fantoccini^†; marionettes, Punch and Judy.    auditory, auditorium, front of the house, stalls, boxes, pit, gallery, parquet; greenroom, coulisses [Fr.].    flat; drop, drop scene; wing, screen, side scene; transformation scene, curtain, act drop; proscenium.    stage, scene, scenery, the boards; trap, mezzanine floor; flies; floats, footlights; offstage; orchestra.    theatrical costume, theatrical properties.    movie studio, back lot, on location.    part, role, character, dramatis personae [Lat.]; repertoire.    actor, thespian, player; method actor; stage player, strolling player; stager, performer; mime, mimer^†; artists; comedian, tragedian; tragedienne, Roscius; star, movie star, star of stage and screen, superstar, idol, sex symbol; supporting actor, supporting cast; ham, hamfatter [Slang]; masker^†.    pantomimist, clown harlequin, buffo^†, buffoon, farceur, grimacer, pantaloon, columbine; punchinello^†; pulcinello^†, pulcinella^†; extra, bit-player, walk-on role, cameo appearance; mute, figurante^†, general utility; super, supernumerary.    company; first tragedian, prima donna [Sp.], protagonist; jeune premier [Fr.]; debutant, debutante [Fr.]; light comedian, genteel comedian, low comedian; walking gentleman, amoroso^†, heavy father, ingenue [Fr.], jeune veuve [Fr.].    mummer, guiser^†, guisard^†, gysart^†, masque.    mountebank, Jack Pudding; tumbler, posture master, acrobat; contortionist; ballet dancer, ballet girl; chorus singer; coryphee danseuse [Fr.].    property man, costumier, machinist; prompter, call boy; manager; director, stage manager, acting manager.    producer, entrepreneur, impresario; backer, investor, angel [Fig.].    dramatic author, dramatic writer; play writer, playwright; dramatist, mimographer^†.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 772: observance, performance, compliance, acquiescence, concurrence; obedience etc. 743; fulfillment, satisfaction, discharge; acquittance, acquittal.    adhesion, acknowledgment; fidelity etc. (probity) 939; exact etc. 494; observance.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 926: duty, what ought to be done, moral obligation, accountableness^†, liability, onus, responsibility; bounden duty, imperative duty; call, call of duty; accountability.    allegiance, fealty, tie engagement etc. (promise) 768; part; function, calling etc. (business) 625.    morality, morals, decalogue; case of conscience; conscientiousness etc. (probity) 939; conscience, inward monitor, still small voice within, sense of duty, tender conscience, superego; the hell within [Paradise Lost]. dueness etc. 924; propriety, fitness, seemliness, amenability, decorum, to prepon; the thing, the proper thing; the right thing to do, the proper thing to do.    [Science of morals] ethics, ethology.   ; deontology^†, aretology^†; moral philosophy, ethical philosophy; casuistry, polity.    observance, fulfillment, discharge, performance, acquittal, satisfaction, redemption; good behavior.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 154: effect, consequence; aftergrowth^†, aftercome^†; derivative, derivation; result; resultant, resultance^†; upshot, issue, denouement; end etc. 67; development, outgrowth, fruit, crop, harvest, product, bud.    production, produce, work, handiwork, fabric, performance; creature, creation; offspring, offshoot; firstfruits^†, firstlings; heredity, telegony^†; premices premises^†.    ... meer laten zien

The act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment.

Nederlands: opvoeren, optreden
Pools: produkcja, występ

The act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it:
— They criticised his performance as mayor.
— Experience generally improves performance.

synoniemen: carrying into action, carrying out, execution.

Roget 416: musician, artiste, performer, player, minstrel; bard etc. (poet) 597; [specific types of musicians] accompanist, accordionist, instrumentalist, organist, pianist, violinist, flautist; harper, fiddler, fifer^†, trumpeter, piper, drummer; catgut scraper.    band, orchestral waits.    vocalist, melodist; singer, warbler; songster, chaunter^†, chauntress^†, songstress; cantatrice^†.    choir, quire, chorister; chorus, chorus singer; liedertafel [G.].    nightingale, philomel^†, thrush; siren; bulbul, mavis; Pierides; sacred nine; Orpheus, Apollo^†, the Muses Erato, Euterpe, Terpsichore; tuneful nine, tuneful quire.    composer etc. 413.    performance, execution, touch, expression, solmization^†.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 680: action, performance; doing, etc. v.; perpetration; exercise, excitation; movement, operation, evolution, work; labor etc. (exertion) 686; praxis, execution; procedure etc. (conduct) 692; handicraft; business etc. 625; agency etc. (power at work) 170.    deed, act, overt act, stitch, touch, gest transaction^†, job, doings, dealings, proceeding, measure, step, maneuver, bout, passage, move, stroke, blow; coup, coup de main, coup d'etat [Fr.]; tour de force etc. (display) 882; feat, exploit; achievement etc. (completion) 729; handiwork, workmanship; manufacture; stroke of policy etc. (plan) 626.    actor etc. (doer) 690.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 729: completion, accomplishment, achievement, fulfillment; performance, execution; despatch, dispatch; consummation, culmination; finish, conclusion; close etc. (end) 67; terminus etc. (arrival) 292; winding up; finale, denouement, catastrophe, issue, upshot, result; final touch, last touch, crowning touch, finishing touch, finishing stroke; last finish, coup de grace; crowning of the edifice; coping-stone, keystone; missing link etc. 53; superstructure, ne plus ultra [Lat.], work done, fait accompli [Fr.].    elaboration; finality; completeness etc. 52.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: opvoering
Pools: wykonawstwo

Any recognized accomplishment.

Process or manner of functioning or operating:
— They compared the cooking performance of each oven.
— The jet's performance conformed to high standards.

synoniemen: functioning, operation.

Nederlands: bedrijf, werking
Pools: osiąg