Word Finder - execute

definition

To kill as punishment for capital crimes.

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There are certain states where it is lawful to execute prisoners convicted of certain crimes.

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To carry out; to put into effect.

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I'll execute your orders as soon as this meeting is adjourned.

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To perform.

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to execute a difficult piece of music brilliantly

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To carry out, to perform an act; to put into effect or cause to become legally binding or valid (as a contract) by so doing.

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to execute a contract

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To start, launch or run

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to execute a program

synonyms

• launch
• open
• run
• start

definition

To run, usually successfully.

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The program executed, but data problems were discovered.

No matter what he felt, he couldn't hesitate to execute his plan.

I have a real mission to execute hunting down insurgents.

This plan he was unable to execute.

Prince Andrew galloped off to execute the order.

Corregidors, or governors of districts, were ordered to try summarily and execute every turbulent person within their jurisdictions.

Learning how to properly execute a roll on Heelys can help save you injury and embarrassment.

She wanted to think he'd done it to help her, but what kind of a monster could execute another in cold blood?

With few exceptions tapeworms select the small intestine for their station, and in this situation execute active movements of extension and contraction.

He induced the diet to promise to execute the edict of Worms as far as that should be possible; but it was generally understood that it was impossible.

The now overpowering strength of the British fleet enabled it to occupy the Chesapeake and to execute innumerable attacks of a destructive character on docks and harbours.

The Watchers really wanted him to execute his mission.

Despite his less-than-serious nature, Dan was detail oriented and quick to execute, two traits Brady found priceless over their years together.

Every day you fail to execute the task, the penalty for failure worsens.

Much like an athlete needs to stretch and use the correct form when competing in a sporting event, the classical guitar player needs to understand and execute perfect form when practicing and performing.

You've got to decide on your strategy, adjust your lineups, choose the right plays, and then execute them to get into the end zone.

Someone else would have to do the thinking for him if he were to execute any kind of betrayal.

The two divisions detailed for this Suvla enterprise both belonged to the British " New Army "; they were unconversant with active service conditions, having come straight out from England, and they were being highly tried in being called upon to execute a landing in.

The company formed to execute his project became simply an agricultural concern and by the sinking of artesian wells created an oasis of olive and palm trees.

But attempts to execute this were so unsuccessful that it has been succeeded by a law imposing what is known as the "mulct tax," which requires the payment of $600 in quarterly instalments for a licence to sell such liquors and places a lien for the whole amount on the real property in use for the business.

It was not easy to execute this change of front with dignity, and impossible to do so without forsaking the principles on which they had hitherto acted.

In 1844-1845 there was some improvement in the condition of the country as a result of financial reforms the pasha was compelled to execute.

He was succeeded by his uncle Said Pasha, the favorite son of Mehemet Ali, who lacked the strength of mind or physical health needed to execute the beneficent projects which he conceived.

They were to execute justice, to enforce respect for the royal rights, to control the administration of the counts, to receive the oath of allegiance, and to supervise the conduct and work of the clergy.

Quite ignorant as to the real state of affairs, he raised the money and sent a nuncio, who never risked himself in Scotland, but made the extraordinary proposal later, that Mary should execute or at least " discourt " her chief advisers.

At the French examinations for the prix de Rome the candidates are required to execute a painting in a given number of days, under strict supervision (en loge).

Thus the night passed, and in the morning Jesus was taken to Pilate, for the Jewish council had no power to execute their decree of death.

Further, on the 15th December of the same year they examined an instrument invented by Lippershey at their request to see with both eyes, and gave him orders to execute two similar instruments at goo florins each; but, as many other persons had knowledge of this new invention to see at a distance, they did not deem it expedient to grant him an exclusive privilege to sell such instruments.

They were applied to other P Y PP uses less justifiable or defensible; they served to execute the will of the despotic master upon all who set themselves in opposition to his authority, or were decreed, more or less wisely but still arbitrarily, by a government in the best interests of society, organized for the general good.

The size and shape, the complicated spinning motion which it is seen to execute, the internal strains and vibrations which doubtless take place, are all sacrificed in the mental picture in order that attention may be concentrated on those features of the phenomenon which are in the first place most interesting to us.

At the end of the 13th century, and the beginning of the 14th too, provincial codes of laws appear and the king and his council execute legislative functions.

For at the side of the great god Ahuramazda there stands a host of subordinate divine beings who execute his willamong these the deified heroes of legend, to whose circle the king is now admitted, since on him Ahuramazda has bestowed victory and might.

In 1816, along with Gay-Lussac, he started the Annales de chimie et de physique, and in 1818 or 1819 he proceeded along with Biot to execute geodetic operations on the coasts of France, England and Scotland.

The detached masses into which a jet is resolved do not at once assume and retain a spherical form, but execute a series of vibrations, being alternately compressed and elongated in the direction of the axis of symmetry.

In a rural district any parish council may complain to the county council that the district council have made default in keeping any highway in repair, and the county council may thereupon transfer to themselves and execute the powers of the district council at the cost of the latter body, or they may make an order requiring the district council to perform their duty, or they may appoint some person to do so at the cost of the district council.

The urban district council execute the Public Libraries Acts for their district, and the rate for the expenses of the acts, which may not exceed td.

At the regular town meeting held in March the electorate of the town assembles, decides what shall be done for the town during the ensuing year, elects officers to execute its decisions with limited discretion, and votes money to meet the expenses.

This was partly due to Lord Canning's personal inclination to temper justice with mercy, but partly also to the fact that there was no adequate European force at hand to execute a severer sentence.

The savage punishment of the Neapolitan Republicans is dealt with in more detail under Naples, Nelson and Caracciolo, but it is necessary to say here that the king, and above all the queen, were particularly anxious that no mercy should be shown to the rebels, and Maria Carolina made use of Lady Hamilton, Nelson's mistress, to induce him to execute her own spiteful vengeance.

A series of special improvement acts were passed, authorizing companies to execute or advance money for executing improvements in land.

As a rule, however, implicit obedience was enforced; to act without his orders was culpable; while it was a sacred duty to execute his orders, however unreasonable, until they were withdrawn.

He stated that for determining the longitude at sea there had been several projects, true in theory but difficult to execute.

As long as his minister served his purposes and could execute his behests Henry gave him a free hand, and supported him against all his enemies.

To eject the advocate from power was one thing, to execute him as a traitor quite another.

The period of most serious friction was that during the administration of the New England colonies by Sir Edmund Andros, who in pursuance of the later Stuart policy both in England and in her American colonies visited Hartford on the 31st of October 1687 to execute quo warranto proceedings against the charter of 1662.

Under the Wittelsbach rule, the estates of the various provinces of Brandenburg had obtained the right to coin money, to build fortresses, to execute justice, and to form alliances with foreign states.

Second, if he didn't execute his target, he has a damned good reason.

Four months later, the participant needed only verbal assistance to execute the task.

Local Authorities use private bailiffs to execute the warrant.

We are so barbaric here that we execute the mentally retarded people.

This is guaranteed only if all hosts, when they start up, execute the same code that creates these objects.