| Noun | 1. | execution - putting a condemned person to deathcorporal punishment - the infliction of physical injury on someone convicted of committing a crime hanging - a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead; "in those days the hanging of criminals was a public entertainment" 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 | |
| 2. | execution - the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it; "they criticised his performance as mayor"; "experience generally improves performance"action - something done (usually as opposed to something said); "there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions" mechanics, mechanism - the technical aspects of doing something; "a mechanism of social control"; "mechanisms of communication"; "the mechanics of prose style" officiation - the performance of a religious or ceremonial or public duty | |
| 3. | execution - (computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computercomputer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures data processing - (computer science) a series of operations on data by a computer in order to retrieve or transform or classify information process - a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states; "events now in process"; "the process of calcification begins later for boys than for girls" | |
| 4. | execution - (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 enforceablesubscription - the act of signing your name; writing your signature (as on a document); "the deed was attested by the subscription of his signature" jurisprudence, law - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" | |
| 5. | execution - a routine court order that attempts to enforce the judgment that has been granted to a plaintiff by authorizing a sheriff to carry it outcourt order - a writ issued by a court of law requiring a person to do something or to refrain from doing something jurisprudence, law - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order" | |
| 6. | execution - the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order; "the agency was created for the implementation of the policy"enforcement - the act of enforcing; insuring observance of or obedience to | |
| 7. | execution - unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human beinghomicide - the killing of a human being by another human being bloodshed, blood, gore - the shedding of blood resulting in murder; "he avenged the blood of his kinsmen" lynching - putting a person to death by mob action without due process of law fratricide - the act of murdering your own brother or sister hit - a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate; "it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit" shoot-down - murder by shooting someone down in cold blood thuggee - murder and robbery by thugs | |