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performing

verb
/pɚˈfɔɹmɪŋ/US/pəˈfɔːmɪŋ/UK

Etymology

From perform + -ing.

  1. derived from *promo-✻
  2. derived from *frumjaną✻
  3. derived from *frummjan✻
  4. derived from parfornir
  5. derived from performer
  6. inherited from parformen
  7. suffixed as performing — “perform + ing”

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of perform

    • The greatest recovery was recorded by London Overground, where the level of journeys was at 55.9% of that recorded two years previously. ScotRail (32.2%) was the lowest-performing operator.

  2. A performance.

    • Yet the misfortune of his life, his vast attempts but most inadequate performings, failing to accomplish any one masterpiece, seems to mark the closing of an era.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at performing. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at performing. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at performing

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA