Definition of performing

"performing" in the noun sense

1. acting, playing, playacting, performing

the performance of a part or role in a drama

"performing" in the verb sense

1. perform, execute, do

carry out or perform an action

"John did the painting, the weeding, and he cleaned out the gutters"

"the skater executed a triple pirouette"

"she did a little dance"

2. perform

perform a function

"Who will perform the wedding?"

3. perform

give a performance (of something

"Horowitz is performing at Carnegie Hall tonight"

"We performed a popular Gilbert and Sullivan opera"

4. do, perform

get (something) done

"I did my job"

Source: WordNet® (An amazing lexical database of English)

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Quotations for performing

Purposing without performing is mere fooling. [ Proverb ]

Between promising and performing, a man may marry his daughter. [ Proverb ]

Dexterity respects the manner of executing things; it is the mechanical facility of performing an office. [ Abbe Girard ]

True bravery is shown by performing, without witnesses, what one might be capable of doing before all the world. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal consideration should stand in the way of performing a public duty. [ Ulysses S. Grant ]

He only is great who has the habits of greatness; who, after performing what none in ten thousand could accomplish, passes on like Samson, and tells neither father nor mother of it. [ Lavater ]

A majority of women seem to consider themselves sent into the world for the sole purpose of displaying dry goods, and it is only when acting the part of an animated milliner's block that they feel they are performing their appropriate mission. [ Abba Goold Woolson ]

performing in Scrabble®

The word performing 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: 18

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters performing:

PERFORMING
(198)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (9 words)

fermion, foreign, forming, fringer, frogmen, perform, perming, preform, romping

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word performing

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

PERFORMING
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performing in Words With Friends™

The word performing 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: 22

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters performing:

PERFORMING
(288)
PERFORMING
(288)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (9 words)

fermion, foreign, forming, fringer, frogmen, perform, perming, preform, romping

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word performing

PERFORMING
(288)
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In performing

PERFORMING
(288)
PERFORMING
(288)
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(180)
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(180)
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(119 = 84 + 35)
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(104)
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Words containing the sequence performing

Words that start with performing (1 word)

Words with performing in them (1 word)

Word Growth involving performing

Shorter words in performing

or for form formin forming

in formin forming

mi formin forming

or for form perform

pe per perform

Longer words containing performing

nonperforming

outperforming

overperforming

reperforming

underperforming