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performing
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun performing has 1 sense
- performing(n = noun.act) acting, playacting, playing - the performance of a part or role in a drama; Array is a kind of activity, performing arts
has particulars: characterization, enactment, personation, portrayal, impersonation, personation, method, method acting, dumb show, mime, pantomime, business, byplay, stage business, skit, hamming, overacting, heroics, reenactment, roleplaying
is a part of performance
Derived form verb perform3
THESAURUS
performing
acting, action, agency, aping, behavioral, buffoonery, business, characterization, conduct, direction, driving, dumb show, embodiment, enacting, enactment, execution, exercise, functional, functioning, gag, ham, hammy acting, handling, hoke, hokum, imitation, impersonation, inaction, incarnation, management, manipulation, masquerade, mimesis, mimicking, mimicry, miming, mummery, occupation, operancy, operating, operation, operational, overacting, pantomime, pantomiming, patter, performance, personation, personification, playacting, playing, portrayal, posing, practice, practicing, projection, representation, responsibility, running, serving, slapstick, stage business, stage directions, stage presence, steering, stunt, taking a role, work, working, workings
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