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# execute

«execute» in Mova's school dictionary: **To kill someone as a punishment ordered by a court or ruler** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (execute, executes, executed, executing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (law) To kill someone as a punishment ordered by a court or ruler. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/execute/#m1)

2) (formal) To carry out a plan, an order or a task. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/execute/#m2)

3) To perform a movement or skill well, such as a dance step or a dive. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/execute/#m3)

4) (computers) To run a program or a command. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/execute/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons it means putting a person to death as punishment, for example kings and traitors long ago. In sport, dance and computing it means doing or running something exactly: «execute a perfect cartwheel», «the computer executes the code». Phrases: execute a plan, execute an order, be executed for, execute a program.

### examples

- The gymnast executed a perfect backflip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/execute/#x1)
- The team executed their plan and won the match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/execute/#x2)
- When you press Enter, the computer executes the command. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/execute/#x3)
- In history we learned that the king was executed long ago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/execute/#x4)
- The soldiers executed the general's orders at once. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/execute/#x5)
- The skater executed a tricky jump on the ice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/execute/#x6)
- The robot will execute each step in order. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/execute/#x7)
- At sight of the gold, Scheih Ibrahim set off at once to execute the commission. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/execute/#x8)

### note

Nouns: execution (the act of executing), executive (a manager in a company), executioner (the person who carried out death sentences). An «executor» is the person who carries out the wishes in someone's will. The killing sense is serious and sad; in sport and computing the word is neutral and common.

### In the corpora

- [The Queen's argument: if nothing is done at once, she'll have everybody executed.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/16-alice-the-queens-croquet-ground-2/26/)
- [The Gryphon chuckles: it's all her fancy, «they never executes nobody».](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/18-alice-the-mock-turtles-story-2/1/)
- [The King: «Give your evidence, or I'll have you executed, whether you're nervous or not.»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/22-alice-who-stole-the-tarts-2/18/)
- ["The ultimate penalty" means the death penalty: the law kills (executes) the criminal.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/28-stealing-and-lying/11/)
- [He doth execute justice for the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.314/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «execute» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/execute/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.