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EXECUTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it
Example:
experience generally improves performance
Synonyms:
carrying into action; carrying out; execution; performance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
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)
linguistic 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))
mechanics; mechanism (the technical aspects of doing something)
officiation (the performance of a religious or ceremonial or public duty)
Derivation:
execute (carry out or perform an action)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
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"):
thuggee (murder and robbery by thugs)
tyrannicide (killing a tyrant)
shoot-down (murder by shooting someone down in cold blood)
infanticide (murdering an infant)
hit (a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate)
dry-gulching (the act of killing from ambush)
regicide (the act of killing a king)
lynching (putting a person to death by mob action without due process of law)
butchery; carnage; mass murder; massacre; slaughter (the savage and excessive killing of many people)
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)
elimination; liquidation (the murder of a competitor)
Derivation:
execute (murder in a planned fashion)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order
Example:
the agency was created for the implementation of the policy
Synonyms:
carrying out; execution; implementation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("execution" is a kind of...):
enforcement (the act of enforcing; ensuring observance of or obedience to)
Derivation:
execute (put in effect)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Putting a condemned person to death
Synonyms:
capital punishment; death penalty; executing; execution
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
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"):
burning; burning at the stake (execution by fire)
hanging (a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead)
burning; electrocution (execution by electricity)
beheading; decapitation (execution by cutting off the victim's head)
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)
Derivation:
execute (kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment)
executioner (an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant)
Sense 5
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
Synonyms:
execution; writ of execution
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
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)
Sense 6
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
Synonyms:
execution; execution of instrument
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
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)
Derivation:
execute (carry out the legalities of)
Sense 7
Meaning:
(computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer
Synonyms:
execution; instruction execution
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
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)
Context examples:
Recent studies point to the ER as a third subcellular compartment implicated in apoptotic execution.
(Apoptosis Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)
This gene plays a role in the execution phase of apoptosis and is involved in DNA repair.
(CASP3 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
The result of execution of a Grid Service Operation when an unexpected or illegal event occurs during processing, generally indicating through a message and/or additional details, the cause of abnormal execution.
(Grid Service Fault, NCI Thesaurus)
A date on which the Institutional Review Board (IRB) approved a clinical study protocol for execution at the particular institution or site.
(Institutional Review Board Approval Date, NCI Thesaurus)
A business process status of a clinical study that refers to the study that started the execution of activities specified by the study protocol.
(Performed Clinical Study, NCI Thesaurus)
Any activity specified in a clinical study protocol that is anticipated to be performed during the execution of the study.
(Planned Clinical Study Activity, NCI Thesaurus)
The device software did not correctly address abnormal execution of the code.
(Device Unhandled Interrupt or Exception Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)
A set of coded instructions, which a computer follows in processing data, performing an operation, or solving a logical problem, upon execution of the program.
(Computer Program, NCI Thesaurus)
This gene is involved in the execution of apoptosis.
(CASP6 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
This gene plays a role in the execution phase of apoptosis and is also involved in the regulation of lipogenic and cholesterogenic gene transcription.
(CASP7 Gene, NCI Thesaurus)
