| performance | any recognized accomplishment, they admired his performance under stress, when Roger Maris powered four home runs in one game his performance merits awe |
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 |
| specific performance | the performance of a legal contract as specified by its terms |
| linguistic performance | (linguistics) a speaker's actual use of language in real situations, what the speaker actually says, including grammatical errors and other non-linguistic features such as hesitations and other disfluencies (contrasted with linguistic competence) |
dramatic production
dramatic performance | the act of performing a drama, the group joined together in a dramatic production |
| musical performance | the act of performing music |
dancing
dance
terpsichore
saltation | taking a series of rhythmical steps (and movements) in time to music |
break dancing
break dance | a form of solo dancing that involves rapid acrobatic moves in which different parts of the body touch the ground, normally performed to the rhythm of rap music |
nautch
nauch
nautch dance | an intricate traditional dance in India performed by professional dancing girls |
slam dancing
slam dance | a form of dancing in which dancers slam into one another, normally performed to punk rock |
tap dancing
tap dance | a dance step tapped out audibly with the feet |
toe dancing
toe dance | a dance performed on tiptoe |
ballet
concert dance | a theatrical representation of a story that is performed to music by trained dancers |
| modern dance | a style of theatrical dancing that is not as restricted as classical ballet, movements are expressive of feelings |
clog dance
clog dancing
clog | a dance performed while wearing shoes with wooden soles, has heavy stamping steps |
| apache dance | a violent fast dance in French vaudeville (an apache is a member of the French underworld) |
belly dance
belly dancing
danse du ventre | a Middle Eastern dance in which the dancer makes sensuous movements of the hips and abdomen |
| fan dance | a solo dance in which large fans are manipulated to suggest or reveal nakedness |
| bubble dance | a solo dance similar to a fan dance except large balloons are used instead of fans |
interpretive dance
interpretive dancing
interpretative dance
interpretative dancing | a form of modern dance in which the dancer's movements depict an emotion or tell a story |
dance step
step | a sequence of foot movements that make up a particular dance, he taught them the waltz step |
ballroom dancing
ballroom dance | any of a variety of social dances performed by couples in a ballroom |
| round dance round dancing | a ballroom dance characterized by revolving movement |
folk dancing
folk dance | a style of dancing that originated among ordinary people (not in the royal courts) |
morris dance
morris dancing | any of various English folk dances performed by dancers in costume |
sword dance
sword dancing | any of various dances by men who step nimbly over swords or flourish them in the air |
country-dance
country dancing
contredanse
contra danse
contradance | a type of folk dance in which couples are arranged in sets or face one another in a line |
longways
longways dance | country dancing performed with couples in two long lines facing each other |
round dance
ring dance | a folk dance, dancers form a circle |
square dance
square dancing | American country dancing in which couples form squares |
ritual dancing
ritual dance
ceremonial dance | a dance that is part of a religious ritual |
| apache devil dance | a ritual dance of the Apache |
| corn dance | a rain dance of Amerindians |
danse macabre
dance of death | a medieval dance in which a skeleton representing death leads a procession of others to the grave |
| ghost dance | a religious dance of Native Americans looking for communication with the dead |
| rain dance | a ritual dance intended to bring rain |
| snake dance | a ceremonial dance (as by the Hopi) in which snakes are handled or invoked |
| sun dance | a ceremonial dance performed by Amerindians at the summer solstice |
| war dance | a ceremonial dance performed before a battle or after a victory |
| 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 |
| dance lesson | a lesson in dancing |
Army High Performance Computing Research Center
AHPCRC | a United States defense laboratory to conduct research in high-performance computing for defense technology applications, a partnership of government and university and industry |
ballroom
dance hall
dance palace | large room used mainly for dancing |
| dance floor | a bare floor polished for dancing |
operating capability
performance capability | the capability of a technological system to perform as intended |
fairytale fairy tale fairy story cock-and-bull story
song and dance | an interesting but highly implausible story, often told as an excuse |
performance
public presentation | a dramatic or musical entertainment, they listened to ten different performances, the play ran for performances, the frequent performances of the symphony testify to its popularity |
| song and dance | theatrical performance combining singing and dancing |
theatrical performance
theatrical
representation histrionics | a performance of a play |
| dance | an artistic form of nonverbal communication |