execution
1. putting a condemned person to death (Freq. 4)
• Syn:
executing, capital punishment, death penalty
• Derivationally related forms:
execute (for: executing), executioner, execute
• Hypernyms:
corporal punishment
• Hyponyms:
burning, burning at the stake, hanging, electrocution, decapitation,
beheading, crucifixion
2. the act of performing;
of doing something successfully;
using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it (Freq. 2)
- they criticised his performance as mayor
- experience generally improves performance
• Syn:
performance, carrying out, carrying into action
• Derivationally related forms:
execute, perform (for: performance)
• Hypernyms:
action
• Hyponyms:
specific performance, linguistic performance, mechanism, mechanics, officiation
3. (computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer
• Syn:
instruction execution
• Topics:
computer science, computing
• Hypernyms:
process, physical process
• Hyponyms:
batch processing, multiprogramming, concurrent execution
• Part Holonyms:
data processing
4. (law) the completion of a legal instrument (such as a contract or deed) by signing it (and perhaps sealing and delivering it) so that it becomes legally binding and enforceable
• Syn:
execution of instrument
• Derivationally related forms:
execute
• Topics:
law, jurisprudence
• Hypernyms:
subscription
5. a routine court order that attempts to enforce the judgment that has been granted to a plaintiff by authorizing a sheriff to carry it out
• Syn:
writ of execution
• Topics:
law, jurisprudence
• Hypernyms:
court order
6. the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order
- the agency was created for the implementation of the policy
• Syn:
implementation, carrying out
• Derivationally related forms:
implement (for: implementation), execute
• Hypernyms:
enforcement
7. unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being
• Syn:
murder, slaying
• Derivationally related forms:
execute, slay (for: slaying), murderous (for: murder), murder (for: murder)
• Hypernyms:
homicide
• Hyponyms:
assassination, bloodshed, gore, contract killing, parricide,
mariticide, fratricide, uxoricide, filicide, elimination, liquidation,
slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery, lynching,
lynching, dry-gulching, hit, infanticide, shoot-down,
tyrannicide, thuggee
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