Participate vs Perform - What's the difference?
participate | perform |
To join in, to take part, to involve oneself ((in) something).
(obsolete) To share, share in (something).
* 1638 , , Some Yeares Travels , I:
(obsolete) To share (something) (with) others; to transfer (something) (to) or (unto) others.
* 1662 , Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World , II:
(obsolete) Acting in common; participating.
* 1608 , , I. i. 101:
To do something; to execute.
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, title= To do something in front of an audience, often in order to entertain it.
* Shakespeare
As verbs the difference between participate and perform
is that participate is to join in, to take part, to involve oneself ({{term|in}} something) while perform is to do something; to execute.As an adjective participate
is acting in common; participating.participate
English
Verb
(participat)- they seldome feed together, lest they might participate one anothers impurity: each has his owne cup [...].
- Make the Earth [...] turn round its own axis in twenty four hours, and towards the same point with all the other Spheres; and without participating this same motion to any other Planet or Star.
Adjective
(-)- And, mutually participate , did minister / Unto the appetite and affection common / Of the whole body.
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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.