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execution Definition

ex·ecu·tion (ek′si kyo̵̅o̅′s̸hən)

noun

  1. the act of executing; specif.,
    1. a carrying out, doing, producing, etc.
    2. a putting to death as in accordance with a legally imposed sentence
  2. the manner of doing or producing something, as of performing a piece of music or a role in a play
  3. Archaic effective action, esp. of a destructive nature
  4. Law
    1. a writ or order, issued by a court, giving authority to put a judgment into effect
    2. the legal method afforded for the enforcement of a judgment of a court
    3. the act of carrying out the provisions of such a writ or order
    4. the making valid of a legal instrument, as by signing, sealing, and delivering

Etymology: ME execucion < Anglo-Fr < OFr execution < L executio, exsecutio: see executor

execution Synonyms

execution

n.

  1. The carrying out of instructions or plans

    fulfilling, accomplishment, doing; see achievement 1, 2, performance 1.

  2. Death by official order

    capital punishment, killing, electrocution, hanging, gassing, lethal injection, beheading, decapitation, guillotining, strangulation, contract killing, strangling, crucifixion, martyrdom, impalement, shooting, burning at the stake, death penalty, ultimate penalty, electric chair, firing squad, the gallows, the rope, the block, the chair*, the ax*.

execution Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • warrant: One MCC reported the backlog delayed execution of new warrants whilst another concentrated its efforts on new warrants.
  • writ: Grant to Sir Ralph Hare and his heirs, of the return and execution of writs and process of Clackclose, co.

Converse of object

  • suspend: See Section 3.4 for more information about suspending command execution.
  • abort: If a negative value is specified, an error message is output, instructing you to abort execution.
  • resume: Signals cannot awaken the suspended thread; they remain pending until the thread resumes execution.
  • await: The " many " are condemned sinners awaiting execution.
  • terminate: NOTES While waiting for terminal input, pg responds to BREAK, DEL, and ^ by terminating execution.
  • restart: When the event is posted, all these tasks restart execution.

Adjective modifier

  • extra-judicial: This means an end to the shoot-to-kill policy, introduced in secret, which resulted in Menezes's extra-judicial execution.
  • decentralized: Mission C2 leverages centralized, integrated planning and decentralized execution at the maneuver unit level.
  • cold-blooded: There can be no warrant for the cold-blooded execution of a surrendered terrorist.
  • conditional: This is made more powerful by the fact that conditional execution can be applied to most instructions!
  • sequential: In the world of our chosen abstraction - that of sequential execution of a method - it looks like our thread has hung.

Modifies a noun

  • queue: Batch requests are divided into two types: execution queue and routing queue.
  • venue: Would information on actual order flow be more useful than a list of execution venues?
  • host: The job server always exists in the execution host as a daemon program.

Noun used with modifier

  • summary: They have a choice between a slow death and summary execution.
  • program: Pressing the ESC key during program execution will force the simulator to return to command mode.
  • warrant: The team also identified two measures of the capability of MCCs to carry out warrant execution.
execution Quotes

   In Conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work†all planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctoryaffair. The idea becomes the machine that makes the art.

—LeWitt, Sol

   It is the business of a statesman to judge of the expediency of different schemes of economy, and by degrees to model the minds of his subjects so as to induce them from the allurement of private interest to concur in the execution of his plan.

—Steuart (later Denham), SirJames

A sentence ofdeathwitha stayofexecutionfor six years.

—Carson, Edward Henry, Baron

I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.

—Grant, Ulysses S(impson)

There are two things which I am confident I can do very well: one is an introduction to a literary work, stating what it is to contain, and how it should be executed in the most perfect manner; the other is a conclusion, shewing from various causes why the execution has not been equal to what the author promised to himself and to the public.

—Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson