Perform vs Parison - What's the difference?
perform | parison |
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
(glassblowing) A spherical mass of glass, rolled immediately after being taken out of the furnace.
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day (Vintage 2007), page 278:
As a verb perform
is to do something; to execute.As a noun parison is
(glassblowing) a spherical mass of glass, rolled immediately after being taken out of the furnace.perform
English
Verb
(en verb)Lee S. Langston, magazine=(American Scientist)
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- Perform a part thou hast not done before.
Derived terms
* performance * performant * performative * performator * performerExternal links
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English
Noun
(en noun)- The wineglasses were from a matched dozen, each having begun as a glowing parison at the end of some blowpipe over in Murano but days before.