different between performance vs running

English

Alternative forms

• performaunce (obsolete)

Etymology

perform +? -ance

Pronunciation

• enPR: p?r-fôr?-m?ns, IPA^(key): /p??.?f??.m?ns/
  • (UK) IPA^(key): [p?.?f??.m?ns]
  • (US) IPA^(key): [p?.?f??.m?ns]
• Hyphenation: per?for?mance

Noun

performance (countable and uncountable, plural performances)

1. The act of performing; carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action.
2. That which is performed or accomplished; a thing done or carried through; an achievement; a deed; an act; a feat; especially, an action of an elaborate or public character.
3. (art) A live show or concert.
4. The amount of useful work accomplished estimated in terms of time needed, resources used, etc.

5. (linguistics) The actual use of language in concrete situations by native speakers of a language, as opposed to the system of linguistic knowledge they possess (competence), cf. w:linguistic performance.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to "performance": high, poor, improved, superior, excellent, good, peak, top, optimal, low, economic, academic, financial, musical, human, environmental, vocal, cognitive, dynamic, organizational, historical, physical, social, mechanical, electrical, mental, macroeconomic.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

• high-performance
• low-performance
• performance art

Related terms

• performant

Descendants

Translations

References

• performance at OneLook Dictionary Search
• performance in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• performance in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Catalan

Etymology

From English performance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /per?f?rm?ns/

Noun

performance f (plural performances)

1. performance (a live show or concert)

Further reading

• “performance” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.

References

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English performance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.f??.m??s/
• Rhymes: -??s

Noun

performance f (plural performances)

1. (sports) performance

Further reading

• “performance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English performance.

Noun

performance f (invariable)

1. performance

Synonyms

• (the act of performing) esecuzione
• (accomplishment) prestazione, rendimento
• (show) esibizione

Further reading

• performance in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• perfórmance (uncommon)

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /pe?.?f??.m??.si/

Etymology

Borrowed from English performance.

Noun

performance f (plural performances)

1. performance (amount of useful work accomplished by someone or something)

   Synonym: desempenho

Further reading

• “performance” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from English performance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pe??fo?mans/, [pe??fo?.mãns]

Noun

performance f (plural performances)

1. performance art
2. performance (amount of useful work accomplished)

Further reading

• “performance” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /???n??/
• Rhymes: -?n??

Adjective

running (not comparable)

1. Moving or advancing at a run.
   1. Of a horse, having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
2. Present, current.

3. Flowing; easy; cursive.

4. Continuous; ongoing; keeping along step by step.
   • 1826, Julius Hare, Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers

     What are art and science if not a running commentary on Nature?

5. Having a continuous design or pattern.

   running bond; running ornament

6. Consecutive.
7. (botany) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem.

8. (medicine) Discharging pus.

9. (of a nose) Discharging snot or mucus.

Synonyms

• (nose): runny

Derived terms

• free-running
• long-running

Translations

Adverb

running (not comparable)

1. (informal) consecutively; in a row

Translations

Noun

running (countable and uncountable, plural runnings)

1. The action of the verb to run.

2. The activity of running as a form of exercise, as a sport, or for any other reason

3. That which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which flows in a certain time or during a certain operation.

4. The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.

Derived terms

• free running, freerunning

Translations

Verb

running

1. present participle of run

Preposition

running

1. (colloquial) Approaching; about; roughly.

Derived terms

Spanish

Noun

running m (uncountable)

1. running, jogging