Execution and Cross

noun

• Putting a condemned person to death.
  • synonyms: executing, capital punishment, death penalty
• The act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it.
  • usage: "they criticised his performance as mayor"; "experience generally improves performance"
  • synonyms: performance, carrying out, carrying into action
• Computer science. ( the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer)
  • synonyms: instruction execution
• Law) the completion of a legal instrument (such as a contract or deed) by signing it (and perhaps sealing and delivering it. ( so that it becomes legally binding and enforceable)
  • synonyms: execution of instrument
• A routine court order that attempts to enforce the judgment that has been granted to a plaintiff by authorizing a sheriff to carry it out.
  • synonyms: writ of execution
• The act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order.
  • usage: "the agency was created for the implementation of the policy"
  • synonyms: implementation, carrying out
• Unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being.
  • synonyms: murder, slaying

• (n.) The carrying into effect the judgment given in a court of law.
• (n.) A judicial writ by which an officer is empowered to carry a judgment into effect; final process.
• (n.) The act of the mode of performing a work of art, of performing on an instrument, of engraving, etc.; as, the execution of a statue, painting or piece of music.
• (n.) That which is executed or accomplished; effect; effective work; -- usually with do.
• (n.) The act of signing, and delivering a legal instrument or giving it the forms required to render it valid; as, the execution of a deed or a will.
• (n.) A putting to death as a legal penalty; death lawfully inflicted; as, the execution of a murderer.
• (n.) The act of sacking a town.
• (n.) The act of executing; a carrying into effect or to completion; performance; achievement; consummation; as, the execution of a plan, a work, etc.

Execution is the process of completing an order to buy or sell securities. Once a trade is executed, it is reported by a Confirmation Report; settlement (payment and transfer of ownership) occurs in the U. S. Between one (mutual funds) and three (stocks) days after an order is executed. The time varies greatly across countries. In France, for example settlements are only once per month.

noun

• A wooden structure consisting of an upright post with a transverse piece.
• A marking that consists of lines that cross each other.
  • synonyms: crisscross, mark
• A representation of the structure on which Jesus was crucified; used as an emblem of Christianity or in heraldry.
• Any affliction that causes great suffering.
  • usage: "that is his cross to bear"; "he bears his afflictions like a crown of thorns"
  • synonyms: crown of thorns
• Genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding plants or animals of different varieties or breeds or species. (
  • usage: "a mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey"
  • synonyms: hybrid, crossbreed
• Genetics) the act of mixing different species or varieties of animals or plants and thus to produce hybrids.
  • synonyms: hybridization, hybridisation, crossbreeding, crossing, interbreeding, hybridizing

verb

• Travel across or pass over.
  • usage: "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day"
  • synonyms: traverse, track, cover, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut across
• Meet at a point.
  • synonyms: intersect
• Hinder or prevent (the efforts, plans, or desires) of.
  • usage: "What ultimately frustrated every challenger was Ruth's amazing September surge"; "foil your opponent"
  • synonyms: thwart, queer, spoil, scotch, foil, frustrate, baffle, bilk
• Fold so as to resemble a cross.
  • usage: "she crossed her legs"
• To cover or extend over an area or time period.
  • usage: "Rivers traverse the valley floor, "The parking lot spans 3 acres"; "The novel spans three centuries"
  • synonyms: traverse, span, sweep
• Meet and pass.
  • usage: "the trains crossed"
• Trace a line through or across.
  • usage: "cross your `t'"
• Breed animals or plants using parents of different races and varieties.
  • usage: "cross a horse and a donkey"; "Mendel tried crossbreeding"; "these species do not interbreed"
  • synonyms: crossbreed, hybridize, hybridise, interbreed

adjective

• Extending or lying across; in a crosswise direction; at right angles to the long axis.
  • usage: "cross members should be all steel"; "from the transverse hall the stairway ascends gracefully"; "transversal vibrations"; "transverse colon"
  • synonyms: transverse, transversal, thwartwise
• Annoyed and irritable.
  • synonyms: crabbed, crabby, fussy, grouchy, grumpy, bad-tempered, ill-tempered

• (n.) A monument in the form of a cross or surmounted by a cross, set up in a public place; as, a market cross; a boundary cross; Charing Cross in London.
• (n.) A mixing of breeds or stock, especially in cattle breeding; or the product of such intermixture; a hybrid of any kind.
• (n.) A gibbet, consisting of two pieces of timber placed transversely upon one another, in various forms, as a T or +, with the horizontal piece below the upper end of the upright or as an X. It was anciently used in the execution of criminals.
• (v.t.) To interfere and cut off; to debar.
• (a.) Characterized by or in a state of, peevishness, fretfulness or ill humor; as, a cross man or woman.
• (n.) A line drawn across or through another line.
• (prep.) Athwart; across.
• (v.t.) To pass, as objects going in an opposite direction at the same time.
• (a.) Made in an opposite direction or an inverse relation; mutually inverse; interchanged; as, cross interrogatories; cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other.
• (n.) Church lands.
• (a.) Not parallel; lying or falling athwart; transverse; oblique; intersecting.
• (a.) Not accordant with what is wished or expected; interrupting; adverse; contrary; thwarting; perverse.
• (v.i.) To interbreed, as races; to mix distinct breeds.
• (v.t.) To put across or athwart; to cause to intersect; as, to cross the arms.
• (n.) A pipe-fitting with four branches the axes of which usually form's right angle.
• (v.t.) To lay or draw something, as a line, across; as, to cross the letter t.
• (n.) An instrument for laying of offsets perpendicular to the main course.
• (v.t.) To run counter to; to thwart; to obstruct; to hinder; to clash or interfere with.
• (n.) A piece of money stamped with the figure of a cross, also, that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped; hence, money in general.
• (v.t.) To cancel by marking crosses on or over or drawing a line across; to erase; -- usually with out, off or over; as, to cross out a name.
• (v.t.) To make the sign of the cross upon; -- followed by the reflexive pronoun; as, he crossed himself.
• (n.) Affiction regarded as a test of patience or virtue; trial; disappointment; opposition; misfortune.
• (v.i.) To move or pass from one side to the other or from place to place; to make a transit; as, to cross from New York to Liverpool.
• (v.t.) To cause to interbreed; -- said of different stocks or races; to mix the breed of.
• (n.) The crosslike mark or symbol used instead of a signature by those unable to write.
• (v.i.) To lie or be athwart.
• (v.i.) To be inconsistent.
• (n.) The sign or mark of the cross, made with the finger or in ink, etc. or actually represented in some material; the symbol of Christ's death; the ensign and chosen symbol of Christianity, of a Christian people, and of Christendom.
• (n.) A common heraldic bearing, of which there are many varieties. See the Illustration, above.
• (v.t.) To pass from one side to the other of; to pass or move over; to traverse; as, to cross a stream.
• (n.) An appendage or ornament or anything in the form of a cross; a badge or ornamental device of the general shape of a cross; hence, such an ornament, even when varying considerably from that form; thus, the Cross of the British Order of St. George and St. Michael consists of a central medallion with seven arms radiating from it.

Securities transaction in which the same broker acts as agent for both sides of the trade; a legal practice only if the broker first offers the securities publicly at a price higher than the bid.