execution
Other forms: executions
The planning stage of building a tree house is the fun part — the hard part is the execution of your plan. Execution is taking an idea and actually making it happen.
The execution of a plan is when you put it into effect, like the execution on the field of a football team's game plan. It can also mean the style in which a project is carried out, like a ballet's creative execution. Execution can also refer to the death of a person, either a prisoner who's been sentenced to death by a court of law, or a deliberate, targeted murder, especially when it's done for political reasons.
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putting a condemned person to deathsynonyms: capital punishment, death penalty, executingtypes:hanginga form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until deadcrucifixionthe act of executing by a method widespread in the ancient world; the victim's hands and feet are bound or nailed to a crossauto-da-fethe burning to death of heretics (as during the Spanish Inquisition)type of:corporal punishmentthe infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime
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unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human beingtypes:assassinationmurder of a public figure by surprise attackcontract killinga murder carried out on agreement with a hired killerparricidethe murder of your own father or mothermariticidethe murder of a husband by his wifefratricidethe murder of your siblinguxoricidethe murder of a wife by her husbandfilicidethe murder of your own son or daughterlynchingputting a person to death by mob action without due process of lawregicidethe act of killing a kingdry-gulchingthe act of killing from ambushhita murder carried out by an underworld syndicateinfanticidemurdering an infantshoot-downmurder by shooting someone down in cold bloodtyrannicidekilling a tyrantthuggeemurder and robbery by thugsmatricidethe murder of one's own motherpatricidethe murder of your fathertype of:homicidethe killing of a human being by another human being
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the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing itsynonyms: carrying into action, carrying out, performancetypes:specific performancethe performance of a legal contract as specified by its termslinguistic performance(linguistics) a speaker's actual use of language in real situations; what the speaker actually says, including grammatical errors and other non-linguistic features such as hesitations and other disfluencies (contrasted with linguistic competence)officiationthe performance of a religious or ceremonial or public dutytype of:actionsomething done (usually as opposed to something said)
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the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some ordersynonyms: carrying out, implementationtype of:enforcementthe act of enforcing; ensuring observance of or obedience to
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(computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computersynonyms: instruction executiontypes:batch processingthe serial execution of computer programsconcurrent execution, multiprogrammingthe execution of two or more computer programs by a single computertype of:physical process, processa sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states
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(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 enforceablesynonyms: execution of instrumenttype of:subscriptionthe act of signing your name; writing your signature (as on a document)
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a routine court order that attempts to enforce the judgment that has been granted to a plaintiff by authorizing a sheriff to carry it outsynonyms: writ of executiontype of:court ordera writ issued by a court of law requiring a person to do something or to refrain from doing something
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