What's the difference between perform and proceed?

Perform


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To carry through; to bring to completion; to achieve; to accomplish; to execute; to do.
  • (v. t.) To discharge; to fulfill; to act up to; as, to perform a duty; to perform a promise or a vow.
  • (v. t.) To represent; to act; to play; as in drama.
  • (v. i.) To do, execute, or accomplish something; to acquit one's self in any business; esp., to represent sometimes by action; to act a part; to play on a musical instrument; as, the players perform poorly; the musician performs on the organ.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) From 1982 to 1989, bronchoplasty or segmental bronchoplasty and pulmonary arterioplasty in combination with lobectomy and segmentectomy were performed for 9 patients with central type lung carcinoma.
  • (2) All transplants were performed using standard techniques, the operation for the two groups differing only as described above.
  • (3) These data indicate a steady improvement in laboratory performance over the last 10 years.
  • (4) In conclusion, the efficacy of free tissue transfer in the treatment of osteomyelitis is geared mainly at enabling the surgeon to perform a wide radical debridement of infected and nonviable soft tissue and bone.
  • (5) This paper discusses the typical echocardiographic patterns of a variety of important conditions concerning the mitral valve, the left ventricle, the interatrial and interventricular septum as well as the influence of respiration on the performance of echocardiograms.
  • (6) After two weeks all animals were killed and autopsies of the animals were performed.
  • (7) The 1989 results were compared with those of a similar survey performed in 1986.
  • (8) During the performance of propulsive waves of the oesophagus the implanted vagus nerve caused clonic to tetanic contractions of the sternohyoid muscle, thus proving the oesophagomotor genesis of the reinnervating nerve fibres.
  • (9) Theoretical computations are performed of the intercalative binding of the neocarzinostatin chromophore (NCS) with the double-stranded oligonucleotides d(CGCG)2, d(GCGC)2, d(TATA)2 and d(ATAT)2.
  • (10) In addition autoradiography was performed to localize labelled cells in the inner ear.
  • (11) Surgical repair of the rheumatologic should however, is performed rarely, and should be reserved for the infrequent cases that do not respond to medical therapy.
  • (12) Six hours later, bronchoalveolar lavage was performed.
  • (13) Basing the prediction of student performance in medical school on intellective-cognitive abilities alone has proved to be more pertinent to academic achievement than to clinical practice.
  • (14) It has also been used to measure the amount of excision repair performed by non-replicating cells damaged by carcinogens.
  • (15) The performance characteristics of the CCD are well documented and understood, having been quantified by many experimenters, especially in the physical sciences.
  • (16) 2.35pm: West Ham co-owner David Sullivan has admitted that a deal to land Miroslav Klose is unlikely to go through following the striker's star performances in South Africa.
  • (17) Just after blood sampling, FEV1 measurements were performed.
  • (18) Effects of habitual variations in napping on psychomotor performance, short-term memory and subjective states were investigated.
  • (19) The study examined the sustained effects of methylphenidate on reading performance in a sample of 42 boys, aged 8 to 11, with attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
  • (20) In addition, control experiments with naloxone, ethanol, or cigarette smoking alone were performed.

Proceed


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To move, pass, or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey.
  • (v. i.) To pass from one point, topic, or stage, to another; as, to proceed with a story or argument.
  • (v. i.) To issue or come forth as from a source or origin; to come from; as, light proceeds from the sun.
  • (v. i.) To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act by method; to prosecute a design.
  • (v. i.) To be transacted; to take place; to occur.
  • (v. i.) To have application or effect; to operate.
  • (v. i.) To begin and carry on a legal process.
  • (n.) See Proceeds.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Under these conditions the meiotic prophase takes place and proceeds to the dictyate phase, obeying a somewhat delayed chronology in comparison with controls in vivo.
  • (2) This indicated that proteolysis at Lys1313-Glu also proceeded in native alpha 2M.
  • (3) It was concluded that the detachment of the oxaloyl residue from oxaloacetate and its replacement by a proton proceed with inversion of configuration at the methylene group which becomes methyl during the hydrolysis.
  • (4) The small print revealed that Osborne claimed a fall in borrowing largely by factoring in the proceeds of a 4G telecomms auction that has not yet happened.
  • (5) It seams rational to proceed to an earlier total correction in these cases when well defined criteria are fullfilled, as the mortality figures of the palliative and corrective procedures have a tendency to reach each other: (3,2 versus 5,7%).
  • (6) These results indicate that AZT treatment does not completely prevent FeLV infection, even when treatment begins before virus challenge, and that immune sensitization to FeLV proceeds during the prophylactic drug treatment period.
  • (7) Biosynthesis of putrescine in E. gracilis proceeds through decarboxylation of L-ornithine, no arginine decarboxylase (EC 4.1.1.19) activity could be detected.
  • (8) It is conceivable that DNA replication of RSF1010 does not need the priming mechanism for lagging strand synthesis and proceeds by the strand displacement mechanism.
  • (9) To be sure, when Russia withdrew Cuba's only deterrent against ongoing US attack with a severe threat to proceed to direct invasion and quietly departed from the scene, the Cubans would be infuriated – as they were, understandably.
  • (10) If a tear is found, remove all unstable meniscal fragments, leaving a rim, if possible, especially adjacent to the popliteus recess, and then proceed to open cystectomy.
  • (11) Methylenation of the delta6 double bond with dimethyloxosulfonium methylide proceeds steroselectively from the beta side of the molecule.
  • (12) Initial proceedings in Carl Pistorius' trial had focused on a request by South Africa's national broadcaster, SABC, to show the trial proceedings live on national television or record them for later use.
  • (13) The formation of complex VSR-BLM proceeds via two stages.
  • (14) The oxidation of oxyhemoglobin by Cu(II) proceeded in two phases: (1) an initial rapid reaction (less than 30 s) followed by (2) a slower reaction that carried it to completion.
  • (15) When the second antibody was a different type from that of the first one, neutralization proceeded further.
  • (16) "It looks as if the noxious mix of rightwing Australian populism, as represented by Crosby and his lobbying firm, and English saloon bar reactionaries, as embodied by [Nigel] Farage and Ukip, may succeed in preventing this government from proceeding with standardised cigarette packs, despite their popularity with the public," said Deborah Arnott, chief executive of the health charity Action on Smoking and Health.
  • (17) These observations provide biochemical support for the hypothesis that the reparative process of injured tissue in the fetal rabbit proceeds in an attempt to reconstitute normality, i.e.
  • (18) Using microelectrodes and various microscopic techniques active Na+ absorption as well as K+ secretion has been localized to the principal cells, while Cl- absorption was found to proceed largely, though not exclusively, through the tight junctions between cells.
  • (19) Since protein synthesis could not proceed in those cells because of the lack of energy and tryptophan, the data indicate that an unknown mechanism exists which imparts some mutations with the resistance to antimutagenic repair in the absence of the inducible mutagenic system.
  • (20) Proceeding from the observation that organic anions bound to albumin have hepatic extraction fractions that are unexpectedly high, we have studied a distributed model that accounts for this phenomenon by invoking sites on the cell surface that catalyze the dissociation of albumin-anion complexes.