Used in a Sentence

performing

How to use performing in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for performing.

Editorial note

As Sean, my head SysAdmin wrote on a ticket to you, some of your pages were performing a sort on 188590 rows in memory each time. That just doesn't scale.

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Definitions1
Parts of speech1

Quick take

the performance of a part or role in a drama

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of performing gathered in one view.

noun

the performance of a part or role in a drama

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for performing.

Example sentences

1

As Sean, my head SysAdmin wrote on a ticket to you, some of your pages were performing a sort on 188590 rows in memory each time. That just doesn't scale.

2

This suggests that our schools are performing very poorly indeed." Dont believe the hype."

3

It looks like as we were performing server upgrades last week a handful of jobs didn't run as normal. We should have certainly caught it and responded sooner so that was our fault.

4

When I was a young prodigy I had the mentality of a performing seal. It's true that some people have difficulty controlling themselves, and they do need help.

5

Make by itself is actually a very handy tool for performing tasks that have a dependency graph. Autoconf.

6

This can be in writing, or drawing, or painting, or sculpting, or coding, or composing, or performing, or doing any other act requiring creativity. This is not some trivial take-it-or-leave-it part of life.

7

Any study that does this should be immediately discounted as that is about the worst possible performing ec2 instance size. Adrian cockroft from Netflix refers to these types of studies as benchmarketing.

8

In Quanta, the patent was directed to a certain computer process, and the patent owner sold computer chips with circuitry for performing that process. The chips themselves were useless, of course, but they just needed to be combined with some standard hardware and turned on to work.

9

It's the fastest and best performing MySpace by far. What you see is the impressive work of the MySpace development team who have done an amazing job at taking ambitious designs and turning them into something captivating and interactive.

10

An excellent programmer with no experience in Python will be out performing a poor Python programmer in a matter of weeks, even though they have had to learn an entirely new language. This idea, however, seems entirely lost on most HR departments, and the result is an almost entirely "fake" skills shortage.

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It's too bad that sendgrid had to fire her, I would never wish that somebody had their livlihood taken from them like that, but her job was to be a developer evangelist, which is a job she isn't realistically capable of performing anymore. I would feel really uncomfortable if I was in the same room as this person.

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And because of the stupid blue "like" button this article rails against, these hopeful businesses can do that without paying for pointless terribly-performing ads in major newspapers or on radio stations, and can have actual conversations with their customers. And again, I gather from this post that I am supposed to feel like this is a bad thing.

13

Is it really the case that you have no respect for a person if you watch them performing a sporting activity? If I start juggling and someone watches me, I highly doubt that it's because he/she has a lack of respect for me as a person. Seriously, read what you just said. It implies that you cannot watch people performing an activity while respecting their autonomy.

14

Any function call could be performing a user-defined implicit conversion on any of its parameters. For overloaded functions, the compiler decides what function is actually called by applying non-trivial pattern matching rules.

15

However, students in African and Hispanic countries do so much worse than students in European and Asian countries that despite the American students of those ethnicities performing better than students in those countries, they still bring down the average American score below that of most European and Asian nations. What this tells us is not that the American education system is just plain bad.

16

I must say I get rather irritated when people spend time worrying about dubious 'tweaker' methods to improve their audio, when the most under-performing component of most people's sound equipment also has the lowest-hanging fruit: The room itself. When people ask me where they should spend money to improve the quality of their hi-fi or home theater system, in nearly every case my response will be something like "get a thicker rug" or "put something on this wall to absorb sound reflections, even if it's just a bookshelf."

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In the meantime, and largely because SQLite let me query into the data in more and more useful ways that I hadn't foreseen, I had extended the original prototype significantly and it was outperforming their larger scale solution on a 3 year old, very unimpressive, desktop with the same install of perl and sqlite. On top of the raw calculations, it was also performing some automated results analysis and spitting out ready to present artifacts that could be stuck in your presentation tool of choice.

18

If you are a DBA selling tuning services to help companies re-write gnarly queries for example, well, unless a slow performing query/process is directly impacting revenues in some way, it likely is a secondary priority in devops/support where budgets are tight and learn to live with it is becoming a way of life.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use performing in a sentence?

As Sean, my head SysAdmin wrote on a ticket to you, some of your pages were performing a sort on 188590 rows in memory each time. That just doesn't scale.

What does performing mean?

the performance of a part or role in a drama

What part of speech is performing?

performing is commonly used as noun.