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Perform vs Explore - What's the difference?

perform | explore |

As verbs the difference between perform and explore

is that perform is to do something; to execute while explore is .

perform

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To do something; to execute.
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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

    Anagrams

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    explore

    English

    Verb

    (explor)
  • (obsolete) To seek for something or after someone.
  • To examine or investigate something systematically.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katie L. Burke
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  • To travel somewhere in search of discovery.
  • (medicine) To examine diagnostically.
  • To (seek) experience first hand.
  • To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses.
  • To wander without any particular aim or purpose.
  • *
  • They stayed together during three dances, went out on to the terrace, explored' wherever they were permitted to ' explore , paid two visits to the buffet, and enjoyed themselves much in the same way as if they had been school-children surreptitiously breaking loose from an assembly of grown-ups.

    Synonyms

    * (examine or investigate systematically) delve into, research

    Derived terms

    * explorer