Perform vs. Create — What's the Difference?

Carry out, accomplish, or fulfil (an action, task, or function)

Bring (something) into existence

Present (a form of entertainment) to an audience

Make a fuss; complain

To begin and carry through to completion; do

To cause to exist; bring into being

To take action in accordance with the requirements of; fulfill

To give rise to; produce

To enact (a feat or role) before an audience.

To produce through artistic or imaginative effort

To give a public presentation of; present

To invest with an office or title; appoint

To function or accomplish something as expected or required

Created.

To yield a return on investment

(transitive) To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:)

To portray a role or demonstrate a skill before an audience

To bring into existence out of nothing, without the prior existence of the materials or elements used.

To present a dramatic or musical work or other entertainment before an audience.

To make or produce from other (e.g. raw, unrefined or scattered) materials or combinable elements or ideas; to design or invest with a new form, shape, function, etc.

(transitive) To do (something); to execute.

(transitive) To cause, to bring (a non-object) about by an action, behavior, or event, to occasion.

(intransitive) To exhibit an expected pattern of behavior; to function; to work.

(transitive) To confer or invest with a rank or title of nobility, to appoint, ordain or constitute.

(law) To act in a way set forth in a contract.

(intransitive) To be or do something creative, imaginative, originative.

(transitive) To act in accordance with (a contract); to fulfill one’s terms of (a contract).

(transitive) In theatre, to be the first performer of a role; to originate a character.

(intransitive) To fulfill contractually agreed-to terms.

To make a fuss, complain; to shout.

(ambitransitive) To do (something) in front of an audience, such as acting or music, often in order to entertain.

(obsolete) Created, resulting from creation.

To behave theatrically so as to give the impression of (a quality, character trait, etc.); to feign.

Created; composed; begotten.

(social science) Of a social actor, to behave in certain ways.

To bring into being; to form out of nothing; to cause to exist.

(transitive) To behave in accordance with, and thereby in turn shape, (a social notion or role).

To effect by the agency, and under the laws, of causation; to be the occasion of; to cause; to produce; to form or fashion; to renew.

(intransitive) To behave in ways that carry meaning in social contexts.

To invest with a new form, office, or character; to constitute; to appoint; to make; as, to create one a peer.

To carry through; to bring to completion; to achieve; to accomplish; to execute; to do.

Make or cause to be or to become;

To discharge; to fulfill; to act up to; as, to perform a duty; to perform a promise or a vow.

Bring into existence;

To represent; to act; to play; as in drama.

Pursue a creative activity; be engaged in a creative activity;

To do, execute, or accomplish something; to acquit one's self in any business; esp., to represent sometimes by action; to act a part; to play on a musical instrument; as, the players perform poorly; the musician performs on the organ.

Invest with a new title, office, or rank;

Carry out or perform an action;

Create by artistic means;

Perform a function;

Create or manufacture a man-made product;

Give a performance (of something);

Get (something) done;