Putting a condemned person to death.

synoniemen: capital punishment, death penalty, executing.

Roget 692: conduct [actions of an individual agent]; behavior; deportment, comportment; carriage, maintien^†, demeanor, guise, bearing, manner, observance.    dealing, transaction etc. (action) 680; business etc. 625.    tactics, game, game plan, policy, polity; generalship, statesmanship, seamanship; strategy, strategics^†; plan etc. 626.    management; husbandry; housekeeping, housewifery; stewardship; menage; regime; economy, economics; political economy; government etc. (direction) 693.    execution, manipulation, treatment, campaign, career, life, course, walk, race, record.    course of conduct, line of conduct, line of action, line of proceeding; role; process, ways, practice, procedure, modus operandi, MO, method of operating; method &c.; path etc. 627.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 771: security; guaranty, guarantee; gage, warranty, bond, tie, pledge, plight, mortgage, collateral, debenture, hypothecation, bill of sale, lien, pawn, pignoration^†; real security; vadium^†.    stake, deposit, earnest, handsel, caution.    promissory note; bill, bill of exchange; I.   O.U.; personal security, covenant, specialty; parole etc. (promise) 768.    acceptance, indorsement^†, signature, execution, stamp, seal.    sponsor, cosponsor, sponsion^†, sponsorship; surety, bail; mainpernor^†, hostage; godchild, godfather, godmother.    recognizance; deed of indemnity, covenant of indemnity.    authentication, verification, warrant, certificate, voucher, docket, doquet^†; record etc. 551; probate, attested copy.    receipt; acquittance, quittance; discharge, release.    muniment^†, title deed, instrument; deed, deed poll; assurance, indenture; charter etc. (compact) 769; charter poll; paper, parchment, settlement, will, testament, last will and testament, codicil.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 972: punishment, punition^†; chastisement, chastening; correction, castigation.    discipline, infliction, trial; judgment; penalty etc. 974; retribution; thunderbolt, Nemesis; requital etc. (reward) 973; penology; retributive justice.    lash, scaffold etc. (instrument of punishment) 975; imprisonment etc. (restraint) 751; transportation, banishment, expulsion, exile, involuntary exile, ostracism; penal servitude, hard labor; galleys etc. 975; beating etc. v.; flagellation, fustigation^†, gantlet, strappado^†, estrapade^†, bastinado, argumentum baculinum [Lat.], stick law, rap on the knuckles, box on the ear; blow etc. (impulse) 276; stripe, cuff, kick, buffet, pummel; slap, slap in the face; wipe, douse; coup de grace; torture, rack; picket, picketing; dragonnade^†.    capital punishment; execution; lethal injection; the gas chamber; hanging etc. v.; electrocution, rail-riding, scarpines^†; decapitation, decollation^†; garrotte, garrotto [It]; crucifixion, impalement; firing squad; martyrdom; auto-da-fe [Fr.]; noyade^†; happy dispatch.    [suicide as punishment] hara-kiri, seppuku [Jap.]; drinking the hemlock.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: doodstraf, executie, terdoodbrenging, terechtstelling
Pools: kara śmierci, kara główna

The act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it.

synoniemen: carrying into action, carrying out, performance.

Roget 416: musician, artiste, performer, player, minstrel; bard etc. (poet) 597; [specific types of musicians] accompanist, accordionist, instrumentalist, organist, pianist, violinist, flautist; harper, fiddler, fifer^†, trumpeter, piper, drummer; catgut scraper.    band, orchestral waits.    vocalist, melodist; singer, warbler; songster, chaunter^†, chauntress^†, songstress; cantatrice^†.    choir, quire, chorister; chorus, chorus singer; liedertafel [G.].    nightingale, philomel^†, thrush; siren; bulbul, mavis; Pierides; sacred nine; Orpheus, Apollo^†, the Muses Erato, Euterpe, Terpsichore; tuneful nine, tuneful quire.    composer etc. 413.    performance, execution, touch, expression, solmization^†.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 680: action, performance; doing, etc. v.; perpetration; exercise, excitation; movement, operation, evolution, work; labor etc. (exertion) 686; praxis, execution; procedure etc. (conduct) 692; handicraft; business etc. 625; agency etc. (power at work) 170.    deed, act, overt act, stitch, touch, gest transaction^†, job, doings, dealings, proceeding, measure, step, maneuver, bout, passage, move, stroke, blow; coup, coup de main, coup d'etat [Fr.]; tour de force etc. (display) 882; feat, exploit; achievement etc. (completion) 729; handiwork, workmanship; manufacture; stroke of policy etc. (plan) 626.    actor etc. (doer) 690.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 729: completion, accomplishment, achievement, fulfillment; performance, execution; despatch, dispatch; consummation, culmination; finish, conclusion; close etc. (end) 67; terminus etc. (arrival) 292; winding up; finale, denouement, catastrophe, issue, upshot, result; final touch, last touch, crowning touch, finishing touch, finishing stroke; last finish, coup de grace; crowning of the edifice; coping-stone, keystone; missing link etc. 53; superstructure, ne plus ultra [Lat.], work done, fait accompli [Fr.].    elaboration; finality; completeness etc. 52.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: opvoering
Pools: wykonawstwo

computer science The process of carrying out an instruction by a computer.

synoniem: instruction 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 enforceable.

synoniem: execution of instrument.

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.

synoniem: writ of execution.

Nederlands: doodstraf, terechtstelling

The act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order.

synoniemen: carrying out, implementation.

Nederlands: executie
Pools: egzekucja

Unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being.

synoniemen: murder, slaying.

Roget 361: killing etc. v.; homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation^†, iccusion^†; effusion of blood; blood, blood shed; gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery; battue^†.    massacre; fusillade, noyade^†; thuggery, Thuggism^†.    deathblow, finishing stroke, coup de grace, quietus; execution etc. (capital punishment) 972; judicial murder; martyrdom.    butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat, garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur^†; guet-a-pens; gallows, executioner etc. (punishment) 975; man-eater, apache^†, hatchet man [U.S.], highbinder [U.S.].    regicide, parricide, matricide, fratricide, infanticide, feticide, foeticide^†, uxoricide^†, vaticide^†.    suicide, felo de se^†, hara-kiri, suttee, Juggernath^†; immolation, auto da fe, holocaust.    suffocation, strangulation, garrote; hanging etc. v.; lapidation^†.    deadly weapon etc. (arms) 727; Aceldama^†.    [Destruction of animals] slaughtering; phthisozoics^†; sport, sporting; the chase, venery; hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing; pig-sticking; sportsman, huntsman, fisherman; hunter, Nimrod; slaughterhouse, meat packing plant, shambles, abattoir.    fatal accident, violent death, casualty.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: doodslag, manslag, moord
Pools: kładzenie trupem, zgładzanie, wykończanie, wykańczanie, mordowanie