Dictionary entry details
• EXECUTION (noun)
Meaning:
Putting a condemned person to death
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
execution; executing; death penalty; capital punishment
Hypernyms ("execution" is a kind of...):
corporal punishment (the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "execution"):
crucifixion (the act of executing by a method widespread in the ancient world; the victim's hands and feet are bound or nailed to a cross)
beheading; decapitation (execution by cutting off the victim's head)
burning; electrocution (execution by electricity)
hanging (a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead)
burning; burning at the stake (execution by fire)
Meaning:
The act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
carrying into action; carrying out; execution; performance
Context examples:
they criticised his performance as mayor / experience generally improves performance
Hypernyms ("execution" is a kind of...):
action (something done (usually as opposed to something said))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "execution"):
specific performance (the performance of a legal contract as specified by its terms)
mechanics; mechanism (the technical aspects of doing something)
officiation (the performance of a religious or ceremonial or public duty)
Meaning:
(computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Synonyms:
instruction execution; execution
Hypernyms ("execution" is a kind of...):
physical process; process (a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states)
Domain category:
computer science; computing (the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "execution"):
batch processing (the serial execution of computer programs)
concurrent execution; multiprogramming (the execution of two or more computer programs by a single computer)
Holonyms ("execution" is a part of...):
data processing ((computer science) a series of operations on data by a computer in order to retrieve or transform or classify information)
Meaning:
(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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
execution of instrument; execution
Hypernyms ("execution" is a kind of...):
subscription (the act of signing your name; writing your signature (as on a document))
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
writ of execution; execution
Hypernyms ("execution" is a kind of...):
court order (a writ issued by a court of law requiring a person to do something or to refrain from doing something)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Meaning:
The act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
carrying out; implementation; execution
Context example:
the agency was created for the implementation of the policy
Hypernyms ("execution" is a kind of...):
enforcement (the act of enforcing; insuring observance of or obedience to)
Meaning:
Unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
slaying; murder; execution
Hypernyms ("execution" is a kind of...):
homicide (the killing of a human being by another human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "execution"):
lynching (putting a person to death by mob action without due process of law)
regicide (the act of killing a king)
dry-gulching (the act of killing from ambush)
hit (a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate)
infanticide (murdering an infant)
shoot-down (murder by shooting someone down in cold blood)
tyrannicide (killing a tyrant)
thuggee (murder and robbery by thugs)
butchery; carnage; mass murder; massacre; slaughter (the savage and excessive killing of many people)
elimination; liquidation (the murder of a competitor)
assassination (murder of a public figure by surprise attack)
bloodshed; gore (the shedding of blood resulting in murder)
contract killing (a murder carried out on agreement with a hired killer)
parricide (the murder of your own father or mother)
mariticide (the murder of a husband by his wife)
fratricide (the murder of your sibling)
uxoricide (the murder of a wife by her husband)
filicide (the murder of your own son or daughter)
