Executing and Apply

noun

• Putting a condemned person to death.
  • synonyms: execution, capital punishment, death penalty

verb

• Kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment.
  • usage: "In some states, criminals are executed"
  • synonyms: execute, put to death
• Murder in a planned fashion.
  • usage: "The Mafioso who collaborated with the police was executed"
  • synonyms: execute
• Put in effect.
  • usage: "carry out a task"; "execute the decision of the people"; "He actioned the operation"
  • synonyms: carry through, accomplish, execute, carry out, action, fulfill, fulfil
• Carry out the legalities of.
  • usage: "execute a will or a deed"
  • synonyms: execute
• 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, execute
• 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, execute, do
• Sign in the presence of witnesses.
  • usage: "The President executed the treaty"
  • synonyms: execute

verb

• Put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose.
  • usage: "use your head"; "we only use Spanish at home"; "I can't use this tool"; "Apply a magnetic field here"; "This thinking was applied to many projects"; "How do you utilize this tool"; "I apply this rule to get good results"; "use the plastic bags to store the food"; "He doesn't know how to use a computer"
  • synonyms: use, utilize, utilise, employ
• Be pertinent or relevant or applicable.
  • usage: "The same laws apply to you"; "This theory holds for all irrational numbers"; "The same rules go for everyone"
  • synonyms: hold, go for
• Ask (for something. )
  • usage: "He applied for a leave of absence"; "She applied for college"; "apply for a job"
• Apply to a surface.
  • usage: "She applied paint to the back of the house"; "Put on make-up"
  • synonyms: put on
• Be applicable to; as to an analysis.
  • usage: "This theory lends itself well to our new data"
  • synonyms: lend oneself
• Give or convey physically.
  • usage: "She gave him First Aid"; "I gave him a punch in the nose"
  • synonyms: give
• Avail oneself to.
  • usage: "apply a principle"; "practice a religion"; "use care when going down the stairs"; "use your common sense"; "practice non-violent resistance"
  • synonyms: practice, use
• Ensure observance of laws and rules.
  • usage: "Apply the rules to everyone";
  • synonyms: enforce, implement
• Refer (a word or name) to a person or thing.
  • usage: "He applied this racial slur to me"
• Apply oneself to.
  • usage: "Please apply yourself to your homework"

• (v.i.) To make request; to have recourse with a view to gain something; to make application. (to); to solicit; as, to apply to a friend for information.
• (v.t.) To visit.
• (v.t.) To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose or in a particular case; to appropriate; to devote; as, to apply money to the payment of a debt.
• (v.t.) To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently or with attention; to attach; to incline.
• (v.i.) To ply; to move.
• (v.t.) To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of the body.
• (v.t.) To make use of, declare or pronounce, as suitable, fitting or relative; as, to apply the testimony to the case; to apply an epithet to a person.
• (v.t.) To busy; to keep at work; to ply.
• (v.t.) To betake; to address; to refer; -- used reflexively.
• (v.i.) To apply or address one's self; to give application; to attend closely (to).
• (v.i.) To suit; to agree; to have some connection, agreement or analogy; as, this argument applies well to the case.
• (v.t.) To direct or address.