(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.
Troubadour
Definition:
(n.) One of a school of poets who flourished from the eleventh to the thirteenth century, principally in Provence, in the south of France, and also in the north of Italy. They invented, and especially cultivated, a kind of lyrical poetry characterized by intricacy of meter and rhyme, and usually of a romantic, amatory strain.
Example Sentences:
(1) Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you’ll marry a music man Ballerina, you must have seen her, dancing in the sand And now she’s in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand For a moment it seemed possible that the person about to get out of the plane was a man of subtle taste and kindness, a man who could appreciate such beauty, who was secure enough in himself to set his arrival in Sacramento to the soundtrack of a 45-year-old song by a gay troubadour.
(2) Whether he liked it or not, women were fascinated by this handsome 6ft 3in troubadour.
(3) Forty years on that's exoneration enough for the "hapless" troubadour Haffey.
(4) And it is nominally this tale that is being told, by BBC Two, in an ambitious 90 minutes: the tale of a couple of pioneering TV troubadours battling daft odds to bring about what would become the world’s first-ever global TV event.
(5) Woody Guthrie was, as his daughter Nora told me yesterday, "the last of the great European troubadours and first singer-songwriter punk rocker".
(6) Haven't heard any of his troubadouring since the 'You're Beautiful' tune a few years back.
(7) Asher Treleaven 's new show, Troubadour (Gilded Balloon), is also autobiographical, a story he tells with the aid of Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats.
(8) His confusion was something wrought via his destiny – though friends say there was no choice in the matter: no posing, no poetic gestures of the misunderstood troubadour.
(9) Before we answer that, we should point out that Allen has, according to her press release, been "breathing new life into London's acoustic scene of late", which invites comparisons with Daughter , that other girl who made the switch from sad strumalongs to electronica, perhaps when she realised the female troubadour niche was already quite full.
(10) 10.01pm BST Half-time advertising message, courtesy of Pelé : Facebook Twitter Pinterest Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Pinterest close Say what you like about the honesty of this advert - Pelé doesn't exactly carry off the look of campfire troubadour, manically waving that guitar around, and Pepsi as we know is not the real thing - but at least it doesn't impose itself and its values on the viewer like that bloody Apple advert that's on during every break on ITV.
(11) Rice, a 30-year-old troubadour from Dublin, is still making his name, but already has fans who are old enough to be his parents.
(12) The BFG shares a common core with Rooster, Rylance’s epoch-making trickster-troubadour-tout in Jez Butterworth’s Jerusalem, which also delved deep into ancient English myths and pagan archetypes.
(13) He is the bard of the Great Recession , a troubadour of the downturn that crashed in on us in 2008 but which had, in truth, been coming for decades.
(14) Here are some of the things we learned from this year’s awards: Drunk Ed Sheeran is more fun than sober Ed Sheeran As with when Sam Fox and Mick Fleetwood hosted the Brits, the reason for pairing meek and lovelorn acoustic troubadour Ed Sheeran with the fiery, unpredictable Ruby Rose was the hilarity of juxtaposition .
(15) Mercury Prize winner James Blake will compete with Lamar, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and country singer Kacey Musgraves for best new artist, as will English troubadour Ed Sheeran.
(16) Fat White Family – a ramshackle, rancid mess of a band that spawned in Peckham in 2011 and mutated in Brixton – are not your usual chart-tickling troubadours.
(17) (The legend may also have connections with troubadour poetry, in which the woman is all-powerful, all pure and all-denying.)
(18) "I once read that no moving pictures exist of wistful, tragic 70s troubadour Nick Drake.
(19) Minchin – a wild-haired Aussie troubadour who in 2005 won the best newcomer award in Edinburgh – seems to be a paid-up member of the new rationalist comedy movement.
(20) Tortured Troubadour week A theme for people who hate The X Factor .