 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
execution
noun
1: putting a condemned person to death [syn: {executing}, {capital
punishment}, {death penalty}]
2: the act of performing; of doing something successfully;
using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing
it; "they criticised his performance as mayor";
"experience generally improves performance" [syn: {performance},
{carrying out}, {carrying into action}]
3: (computer science) the process of carrying out an
instruction by a computer [syn: {instruction execution}]
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}]
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}]
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}]
7: unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human
being [syn: {murder}, {slaying}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Execution \Ex'e*cu"tion\, noun [F. ex['e]cution, L. executio,
exsecutio.]
1. The act of executing; a carrying into effect or to
completion; performance; achievement; consummation; as,
the execution of a plan, a work, etc.
The excellence of the subject contributed much to
the happiness of the execution. --Dryden.
2. A putting to death as a legal penalty; death lawfully
inflicted; as, the execution of a murderer; to grant a
stay of execution.
A warrant for his execution. --Shak.
3. The act of the mode of performing a work of art, of
performing on an instrument, of engraving, etc.; as, the
execution of a statue, painting, or piece of music.
The first quality of execution is truth. --Ruskin.
4. The mode of performing any activity; as, the game plan was
excellent, but its execution was filled with mistakes.
[PJC]
5. (Law)
(a) The carrying into effect the judgment given in a court
of law.
(b) A judicial writ by which an officer is empowered to
carry a judgment into effect; final process.
(c) The act of signing, and delivering a legal instrument,
or giving it the forms required to render it valid;
as, the execution of a deed, or a will.
6. That which is executed or accomplished; effect; effective
work; -- usually with do.
To do some fatal execution. --Shak.
7. The act of sacking a town. [Obs.] --Beau. & FL.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
197 Moby Thesaurus words for "execution":
accomplished fact, accomplishment, accordance, achievement,
acquittal, acquittance, action, adherence, administration, agency,
angary, annexation, annexure, approach, art, assassination,
attachment, attainment, ax, bane, beheading, block, blood,
bloodletting, bloodshed, braining, bringing to fruition, burning,
cantando, capital punishment, care, carrying out, collectivization,
commandeering, commission, communalization, communization,
completion, compliance, conduct, confiscation, conformance,
conformity, consummation, cross, crucifixion, dealing death,
death chair, death chamber, decapitation, decollation,
defenestration, delivery, demilegato, destruction,
destruction of life, direction, discharge, dispatch, distraint,
distress, doing, driving, drop, effectuation, electric chair,
electrocution, eminent domain, enactment, enforcement, euthanasia,
exercise, expression, expropriation, extermination, fait accompli,
fingering, flow of blood, fruition, fulfillment, functioning,
fusillade, gallows, gallows-tree, garnishment, garrote,
gas chamber, gassing, gibbet, glissando, gore, guillotine, halter,
handling, hanging, heed, heeding, hemlock, hemp, hempen collar,
hot seat, immolation, implementation, impoundment, impressment,
intonation, judicial murder, keeping, kill, killing, lapidation,
legato, lethal chamber, levy, liquidation, maiden, management,
manipulation, manner, martyrdom, martyrization, mastery,
mercy killing, mezzo staccato, mission accomplished, mode, murder,
music-making, nationalization, necktie party, noose, observance,
observation, occupation, operancy, operation, overproduction,
parlando, performance, performing, perpetration, pianism,
pizzicato, poisoning, practice, production, productiveness,
prosecution, pursuance, realization, removal, rendering, rendition,
repercussion, respect, responsibility, right of angary,
ritual killing, ritual murder, rope, rubato, running, sacrifice,
satisfaction, scaffold, sequestration, shooting, skill, slaughter,
slaying, slur, socialization, spiccato, staccato, stake, steering,
stoning, strangling, strangulation, style, success, taking of life,
technique, the ax, the block, the chair, the gallows,
the gas chamber, the guillotine, the hot seat, the rope, touch,
transaction, tree, work, working, workings
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
execution
The process of carrying out
the {instructions} in a computer program by a computer.
See also {dry run}.
(1996-05-13)
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