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English noun: execution | |||
| 1. | execution (act) putting a condemned person to death | ||
| Synonyms | capital punishment, death penalty, executing | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | corporal punishment | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | beheading, burning, burning, burning at the stake, crucifixion, decapitation, electrocution, hanging | ||
| 2. | execution (act) the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it | ||
| Samples | They criticised his performance as mayor. Experience generally improves performance. | ||
| Synonyms | carrying into action, carrying out, performance | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | action | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | linguistic performance, mechanics, mechanism, officiation, specific performance | ||
| 3. | execution (process) (computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer | ||
| Synonyms | instruction execution | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | physical process, process | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | batch processing, concurrent execution, multiprogramming | ||
| Part meronym | data processing | ||
| Domain category | computer science, computing | ||
| 4. | execution (communication) (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 | ||
| Synonyms | execution of instrument | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | subscription | ||
| Domain category | jurisprudence, law | ||
| 5. | execution (communication) 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 | ||
| Synonyms | writ of execution | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | court order | ||
| Domain category | jurisprudence, law | ||
| 6. | execution (act) the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order | ||
| Samples | The agency was created for the implementation of the policy. | ||
| Synonyms | carrying out, implementation | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | enforcement | ||
| 7. | execution (act) unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being | ||
| Synonyms | murder, slaying | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | homicide | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | assassination, bloodshed, butchery, carnage, contract killing, dry-gulching, elimination, filicide, fratricide, gore, hit, infanticide, liquidation, lynching, mariticide, mass murder, massacre, parricide, regicide, shoot-down, slaughter, thuggee, tyrannicide, uxoricide | ||
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