(n.) One who performs, accomplishes, or fulfills; as, a good promiser, but a bad performer; especially, one who shows skill and training in any art; as, a performer of the drama; a performer on the harp.
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.
Ringmaster
Definition:
(n.) One in charge of the performances (as of horses) within the ring in a circus.
Example Sentences:
(1) Surely only a misplaced sense of ego on the part of its ringmasters is stopping it.
(2) If he is to ensure that the pre-recorded programme does not become a circus, Dimbleby will need to give one of his most assured performances as a ringmaster.
(3) Queens Park Rangers ’ ringmaster Tony Fernandes has a dream.
(4) He served as ringmaster, prancing on and off stage as fellow presidential candidates, combat veterans and YouTube celebrities all took turns paying tribute both to Trump and those who have served in the US armed forces.
(5) Mel and Sue return as ringmasters of Bake Off tent Read more The programme “feels like a phenomenon that is still on the rise”, said Charlotte Moore, the controller of BBC1.
(6) The ringmaster closes the door behind her and lets out her breath, silently praying that she’ll be able to continue the fire-fighting until then.
(7) Another is his very theoretical bit part as supremely underinvolved ringmaster of both last Christmas's Jimmy Savile tribute show and the Newsnight investigation that might have exposed a serial child molester.
(8) Republican candidates attack media over tough debate questions Read more Some refused to play along, ignoring the question entirely, but two gave answers that revealed a disgust for a gladiatorial format which went far beyond the subsequent squabbling over whether the ringmasters were too brutal.
(9) Lodger, though recorded in Montreux and New York, used the same personnel as the previous two, with Eno once again acting as creative ringmaster.
(10) Four-letter pastings Channel 4 has three Comedy Roasts coming up from Wednesday with Forsyth, Sharon Osbourne and Chris Tarrant on the receiving end of four-letter pastings from the likes of Jack Dee, Sean Lock, Gok Wan, Barry Cryer, Alan Carr, Sir Elton John and Sir Terry Wogan (who says Tarrant is "tall, always drunk and nobody likes him"), with Jimmy Carr acting as ringmaster.
(11) Better known as Cilvaringz, he’s on stage at PS1, the Queens outpost of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, with his mentor, Wu producer and ringmaster RZA, and music journalist Sasha Frere-Jones .
(12) The ringmaster delves deep into her box of tricks for the remaining six minutes, trying desperately to allay the lady’s fears.
(13) Clifford admitted having extramarital affairs with four women, including a television dancer and a French model, and being the ringmaster of sex parties involving "good honest filth for adults old enough to know what they are doing".
(14) That was the question pondered by Russian state television’s ringmaster, Dmitry Kiselev , in a recent, heavily ideological weekly dispatch.
(15) Talk of a “vast conspiracy” between him and the PM’s office with Ede as “ringmaster” was nonsense, he told the New Zealand Herald.
(16) And somehow, as if by magic, the ringmasters know: the show must go on.
(17) He's the ringmaster of the nation's sexual scandals and the chief conduit by which we know what we know about the private lives of David Beckham, David Mellor, Jude Law and countless others.
(18) Filmed in a tent in the grounds of a Berkshire country house, Giedroyc and Perkins flit around like ringmasters serving up one innuendo after another as a dozen contestants attempt to impress the judges, national treasure Mary Berry and baking pin-up Paul Hollywood .
(19) Michael Oates Palmer, staff writer on The West Wing, applied less reverence when he said: "They're the ringmaster, the elephant tamer and the people who clean the cages."
(20) The choice of Danny Boyle as ringmaster suggests a possible resolution of the great British dilemma.