execute
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French executer (French exécuter), from Latin exsecutus, past participle of exsequor, from ex- (“out”) + sequor (“to follow”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
execute (third-person singular simple present executes, present participle executing, simple past and past participle executed)
- (transitive) To kill as punishment for capital crimes.
- There are certain states where it is lawful to execute prisoners convicted of certain crimes.
- (transitive) To carry out; to put into effect.
- Your orders have been executed, sir!
- I'll execute your orders as soon as this meeting is adjourned.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 9”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
- Why delays / His hand to execute what his decree / Fixed on this day?
- (transitive) To perform.
- to execute a difficult piece of music brilliantly
- to execute a turn in ballet
- (transitive, law) 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.
- to execute a contract
- (transitive, computing) To start, launch or run
- to execute a program
- (intransitive, computing) To run, usually successfully.
- The program executed, but data problems were discovered.
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Translations[edit]
to kill as punishment
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to start a defined process and run it to completion
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to start a defined process, without regard to whether it runs to completion or not
to start, launch or run software
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to sign or otherwise cause a document (especially a contract) to become legally valid
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Latin[edit]
Participle[edit]
execūte
Portuguese[edit]
Verb[edit]
execute
- First-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of executar
- Third-person singular (ele, ela, also used with tu and você?) present subjunctive of executar
- Third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of executar
- Third-person singular (você) negative imperative of executar
Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
execute
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of executar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of executar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of executar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of executar.
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