(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.
Understudy
Definition:
(v. t. & i.) To study, as another actor's part, in order to be his substitute in an emergency; to study another actor's part.
(n.) One who studies another's part with a view to assuming it in an emergency.
Example Sentences:
(1) Michael Caine was his understudy for the 1959 play The Long and the Short and the Tall at the Royal Court Theatre.
(2) So I think he’s been aware of it.” Shaw’s injury explains why Danny Rose of Tottenham Hotspur has been called up as an understudy for Leighton Baines in the left-back role , at a time when Kieran Gibbs is also unavailable because of his own hamstring injury.
(3) The population understudy was composed of 156 children, with ages ranging from 1 to 14 years; they were stratified in three socio-environmental groups (white-family unit, gypsy-family unit and orphanage), and also divided into subgroups according to age.
(4) Chelsea have completed the £8m purchase of Asmir Begovic from Stoke City with the Bosnia international replacing Petr Cech as Thibaut Courtois’ understudy at Stamford Bridge.
(5) The move to sign the 33-year-old on a free transfer follows a knee injury suffered by Thibaut Courtois which has ruled the first-choice goalkeeper out until December and left the squad with only one experienced understudy in Asmir Begovic.
(6) His understudy Jeremy Northam completed the run and Day-Lewis didn't act at all for several years afterwards.
(7) Buffon's understudy Marchetti gets down brilliantly to smother the cross.
(8) O'Toole's understudy, who never had to appear, was Michael Caine.
(9) The Spaniard, who can operate anywhere up the left flank but is predominantly a defender, has been capped nine times since 2009 and has acted as understudy to Joan Capdevila and, more recently, Jordi Alba.
(10) But the problem – although in some ways a nice one – is that Nicholas Hytner has become the directorial equivalent of an actor whom people fear understudying because of the risk of disappointing the audience.
(11) Pediatricians can promote and direct a national focus on this area that has been understudied by researchers, public health officials, and policymakers.
(12) They just talk to other men.” Eventually she had collared the “understudy engineer” who traced a finger down a map, and declared: “You’re about 200 metres away from the station.” That was the end of the conversation.
(13) He and a friend came close to starting a theatre afterwards, but when their funding fell through, he ended up understudying a comedian who was playing opposite Kenneth Williams .
(14) Halfway through rehearsals, though, his actors are questioning the idea that they are delivering the words of Shakespeare's understudy: Ibsen is prone to scenes and speeches of bald exposition.
(15) Ian had just exploded into stardom with his Richard II and Edward II so I was thrilled to be asked to play the First Player and the Player King, a couple of smaller roles and to understudy Claudius for a 13-14 week tour.
(16) Courtois, who faced Chelsea in the Champions League semi-finals , making some crucial saves, appreciates the difficulties if he were to return to Stamford Bridge and play understudy to Petr Cech, the 32-year-old named in the Professional Footballers’ Association Premier League team of the year.
(17) Caballero’s selection had been risky after his erratic performances as Joe Hart’s understudy but it was his goalkeeping that meant the first silverware of the season would be heading to Manchester and those were the moments when we saw why Manuel Pellegrini had placed his trust in him.
(18) Uggie was yanked; an understudy, Dash, was brought in.
(19) He was a gent, I could only mumble some nonsense about smelling the flowers.” Also notable in the picture is the understudy for goalkeeper Ivan Katalinic, George and Mildred Roper’s next door neighbour, Jeffrey Fourmile .
(20) Young, Lingard and Rashford look to be understudies to Martial, Mkhitaryan and Ibrahimovic.