Definition of performances

"performances" in the noun sense

1. performance, public presentation

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"

2. performance

the act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment

"we congratulated him on his performance at the rehearsal"

"an inspired performance of Mozart's C minor concerto"

3. performance, execution, carrying out, carrying into action

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"

4. performance

any recognized accomplishment

"they admired his performance under stress"

"when Roger Maris powered four home runs in one game his performance merits awe"

5. operation, functioning, performance

process or manner of functioning or operating

"the power of its engine determines its operation"

"the plane's operation in high winds"

"they compared the cooking performance of each oven"

"the jet's performance conformed to high standards"

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Quotations for performances

Promises may get friends, but it is performances that keep them. [ Proverb ]

We should remember that it is quite as much a part of friendship to be delicate in its demands as to be ample in its performances. [ J. F. Boyes ]

The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, where exterior appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and virtue. [ Dr. Johnson ]

All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united by canals. If a man was to compare the effect of a single stroke of a pickaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and last result, he would be overwhelmed with the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are leveled and oceans bounded, by the slender force of human beings. [ Dr. Johnson ]

performances in Scrabble®

The word performances is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 21

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters performances:

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Seven Letter Word Alert: (88 words)

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All Scrabble® Plays For The Word performances

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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In performances

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performances in Words With Friends™

The word performances is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 25

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters performances:

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Seven Letter Word Alert: (88 words)

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Words within the letters of performances

2 letter words in performances (19 words)

10 letter words in performances (2 words)

11 letter words in performances (1 word)

12 letter words in performances (1 word)

performances + 2 blanks (1 word)

Words containing the sequence performances

Words that start with performances (1 word)

Words with performances in them (1 word)

Words that end with performances (4 words)

Word Growth involving performances

Shorter words in performances

an man performance

ma man performance

or for form perform performance

pe per perform performance

Longer words containing performances

overperformances

reperformances

underperformances