n 1: putting a condemned person to death [syn: executing, {capital
punishment}, death penalty]
2: 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" [syn: performance, carrying out, carrying into action]
3: the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer
[syn: instruction execution]
4: the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order;
"the agency was created for the implementation of the
policy" [syn: implementation, carrying out]