What's the difference between perform and transact?

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.

Transact


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To carry through; to do; perform; to manage; as, to transact commercial business; to transact business by an agent.
  • (v. i.) To conduct matters; to manage affairs.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, some contactless transactions are processed offline so may not appear on a customer’s account until after the block has been applied.” It says payments that had been made offline on the day of cancellation may be applied to accounts and would be refunded when the customer identified them; payments made on days after the cancellation will not be taken from an account.
  • (2) It would cost their own businesses hundreds of millions of pounds in transaction costs, it would blow a massive hole in their balance of payments, it would leave them having to pick up the entirety of UK debt.
  • (3) The BBA statistics director, David Dooks, said: "It was no surprise to see the January mortgage figures falling back from December, when transactions were being pushed through to beat the end of stamp duty relief.
  • (4) During evidence in chief, he said the only people who would amend a settlement or information about a trade would be "the person who knew of the transaction, who would be the trader."
  • (5) The levy would also confirm the dramatically changing nature of Pakistan's ties with its western partners, from a strategic alliance to a transactional relationship, with deep suspicions on both sides.
  • (6) Several areas of research on childhood asthma are discussed within a transactional model of asthma.
  • (7) Many alternative, more reliable sources of public finance are out there – a tax on financial transactions would provide billions of dollars of new money for developing countries to tackle climate change head on."
  • (8) The spokesman said the role of the branch was fast moving to a “centre for advice” and away from basic transactions.
  • (9) In order for the transaction to process you have to include your full name and address.
  • (10) The temporary ban on dollar clearing means that BNP's clients must engage rival banks to send transactions through the financial system in the US.
  • (11) But when the idea of a transaction with Jeff Bezos came up, it altered my feelings."
  • (12) Contactless payments grew threefold in 2015, with more than a billion “wave and pay” transactions over the year.
  • (13) Hester also pledged that customers from other banks will be repaid for 'knock-on' costs after they were left out of pocket by an IT failure that sent 20m transactions awry.
  • (14) 1985, Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 79, 85-122).
  • (15) In another example, Colorado legislators this month had to pass a new state law to allow for a cannabis co-operative credit union that would let marijuana businesses open bank accounts and escape the murky world of cash-only transactions.
  • (16) These latter data provide indirect evidence that short-lived transacting factor(s) regulate transcription of the human bcl-2 gene in lymphoid cells with or without a t(14;18) translocation.
  • (17) "We look forward to the transaction closing as soon as possible."
  • (18) Sharply escalating the sanctions regime against Tehran, the EU also froze the Iranian central bank's assets in Europe and banned gold, precious metals and diamond transactions.
  • (19) A new perspective is needed--one that accommodates the evolving role of physicians in society, the life-style choices that physicians enable in their patients, and the respective responsibilities of both physicians and patients in physician-patient transactions.
  • (20) In the mid-elementary school-aged child the decentering process emphasized by Piaget, together with the emerging capacity for making allowance for the context within which events occur, leads to the dyadic relationship being seen by the child as being mediated through the transactions of two autonomous mental apparatuses.