Enjoy vs Perform - What's the difference?
enjoy | perform |
To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
, title= To have the use or benefit of something.
* Bible, Numbers xxxvi. 8
* 1988 , Harry G Frankfurt, The importance of what we care about: philosophical essays
To have sexual intercourse with.
To do something; to execute.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=
, title= To do something in front of an audience, often in order to entertain it.
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between enjoy and perform
is that enjoy is to receive pleasure or satisfaction from something while perform is to do something; to execute.enjoy
English
Verb
(en verb)Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
- that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers
- This account fails to provide any basis for doubting that animals of subhuman species enjoy the freedom it defines.
- (Milton)
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . SeeDerived terms
* enjoyable * enjoyment * to enjoy oneselfperform
English
Verb
(en verb)Lee S. Langston, magazine=(American Scientist)
The Adaptable Gas Turbine, passage=Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo'', meaning ''vortex , and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.}}
- Perform a part thou hast not done before.