Command and Execute

noun

• An authoritative direction or instruction to do something.
  • synonyms: bid, bidding, dictation
• A military unit or region under the control of a single officer.
• The power or authority to command.
  • usage: "an admiral in command"
• Availability for use.
  • usage: "the materials at the command of the potters grew"
• A position of highest authority.
  • usage: "the corporation has just undergone a change in command"
• Great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity.
  • usage: "a good command of French"
  • synonyms: control, mastery
• Computer science. ( a line of code written as part of a computer program)
  • synonyms: instruction, statement, program line

verb

• Be in command of.
  • usage: "The general commanded a huge army"
• Make someone do something.
  • synonyms: require
• Demand as one's due.
  • usage: "This speaker commands a high fee"; "The author commands a fair hearing from his readers"
• Look down on.
  • usage: "The villa dominates the town"
  • synonyms: dominate, overlook, overtop
• Exercise authoritative control or power over.
  • usage: "control the budget"; "Command the military forces"
  • synonyms: control

• (v.t.) To exercise direct authority over; to have control of; to have at one's disposal; to lead.
• (v.i.) To have or to exercise direct authority; to govern; to sway; to influence; to give an order or orders.
• (v.t.) To order with authority; to lay injunction upon; to direct; to bid; to charge.
• (n.) A body of troops or any naval or military force or post or the whole territory under the authority or control of a particular officer.
• (n.) An authoritative order requiring obedience; a mandate; an injunction.
• (n.) Authority; power or right of control; leadership; as, the forces under his command.
• (v.t.) To direct to come; to bestow.
• (v.t.) To have power or influence of the nature of authority over; to obtain as if by ordering; to receive as a due; to challenge; to claim; as, justice commands the respect and affections of the people; the best goods command the best price.
• (n.) The possession or exercise of authority.
• (n.) Power to dominate, command or overlook by means of position; scope of vision; survey.
• (n.) Control; power over something; sway; influence; as, to have command over one's temper or voice; the fort has command of the bridge.
• (v.t.) To have within a sphere of control, influence, access or vision; to dominate by position; to guard; to overlook.
• (v.i.) To have a view, as from a superior position.

(DoD) The authority that a commander in the armed forces lawfully exercises over subordinates by virtue of rank or assignment. Command includes the authority and responsibility for effectively using available resources and for planning the employment of, organizing, directing, coordinating, and controlling military forces for the accomplishment of assigned missions. It also includes responsibility for health, welfare, morale, and discipline of assigned personnel.
(DoD) An order given by a commander; that is, the will of the commander expressed for the purpose of bringing about a particular action.
(DoD) A unit or units, an organization, or an area under the command of one individual. Also called CMD. See also area command; combatant command; combatant command (command authority).

verb

• Kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment.
  • usage: "In some states, criminals are executed"
  • synonyms: put to death
• Murder in a planned fashion.
  • usage: "The Mafioso who collaborated with the police was executed"
• Put in effect.
  • usage: "carry out a task"; "execute the decision of the people"; "He actioned the operation"
  • synonyms: carry through, accomplish, carry out, action, fulfill, fulfil
• Carry out the legalities of.
  • usage: "execute a will or a deed"
• Carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine.
  • usage: "Run the dishwasher"; "run a new program on the Mac"; "the computer executed the instruction"
  • synonyms: run
• Carry out or perform an action.
  • usage: "John did the painting, the weeding, and he cleaned out the gutters"; "the skater executed a triple pirouette"; "she did a little dance"
  • synonyms: perform, do
• Sign in the presence of witnesses.
  • usage: "The President executed the treaty"

• (v.i.) To do one's work; to act one's part of purpose.
• (v.t.) To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform.
• (v.t.) To infect capital punishment on; to put to death in conformity to a legal sentence; as, to execute a traitor.
• (v.t.) To perform, as a piece of music, either on an instrument or with the voice; as, to execute a difficult part brilliantly.
• (v.t.) Too put to death illegally; to kill.
• (v.i.) To perform musically.
• (v.t.) To give effect to; to do what is provided or required by; to perform the requirements or stimulations of; as, to execute a decree, judgment, writ or process.
• (v.t.) To complete, as a legal instrument; to perform what is required to give validity to, as by signing and perhaps sealing and delivering; as, to execute a deed, lease, mortgage, will, etc.

execute is the act of making a document legally valid, such as formalizing a contract by signing or acknowledging and delivering a deed. In some cases, execution of a document may refer solely to the act of signing, in other cases it may refer to complete performance of the document's terms.