performとは意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /pəˈfɔːm/, [pʰəˈfɔːm], enPR: pər-fôrmʹ
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɚˈfɔɹm/, enPR: pər-fôrmʹ
• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)m
• ハイフネーション: per‧form

動詞

perform (三人称単数 現在形 performs, 現在分詞 performing, 過去形および過去分詞形 performed)

1. (transitive) To do (something); to execute.

   The scientists performed several experiments.

   It took him only twenty minutes to perform the task.

   • 2013 July-August, Lee S. Langston, “The Adaptable Gas Turbine”, in American Scientist:

     Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.

2. (intransitive) To exhibit an expected pattern of behavior; to function; to work.

   The new employee performs well.

3. (law) To act in a way set forth in a contract.
   1. (transitive) To act in accordance with (a contract); to fulfill one’s terms of (a contract).

      Failure to perform a contract on time may constitute a breach of contract.

   2. (intransitive) To fulfill contractually agreed-to terms.

      They entered into an agreement and now they are obliged to perform.

4. (transitive, intransitive) To do (something) in front of an audience, such as acting or music, often in order to entertain.

   She will perform in the play.

   The magician performed badly—none of his tricks worked.

   The string quartet performed three pieces by Haydn.

   • c. 1608–1609, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:

     Perform a part thou hast not done before.

5. (by extension, transitive) To behave theatrically so as to give the impression of (a quality, character trait, etc.); to feign.

   The accused only performed remorse.

   • 2021, David Edgerton, “The one good thing to come out of Brexit: a bonfire of national illusions”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     As things now stand, Brexit is a pointless gesture, a politics of headlines in which sovereignty is performed by bleating world-beating absurdities.

6. (social sciences) Of a social actor, to behave in certain ways.
   1. (transitive) To behave in accordance with, and thereby in turn shape, (a social notion または role).

      perform masculinity

      perform authority

   2. (intransitive) To behave in ways that carry meaning in social contexts.

      Individuals in societies perform all the time.

派生語