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Beget vs Perform - What's the difference?

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Beget is a related term of perform.


As verbs the difference between beget and perform

is that beget is to cause; to produce while perform is to do something; to execute.

beget

English

Verb

  • To cause; to produce.
  • To father (rarely: to mother); to sire; to produce (a child).
  • To happen to; befall.
  • Quotations

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    See also

    * sire

    References

    * * English irregular verbs

    perform

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To do something; to execute.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Lee S. Langston, magazine=(American Scientist)
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  • To do something in front of an audience, often in order to entertain it.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Perform a part thou hast not done before.

    Derived terms

    * performance * performant * performative * performator * performer

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