Ambition vs Execution - What's the difference?
ambition | execution |
(uncountable, countable) Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or literary fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people.
* Burke
(countable) An object of an ardent desire.
A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.
(uncountable) A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.
(obsolete) The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.
* Milton
To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet.
The act, manner or style of executing (actions, maneuvers, performances).
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The state of being executed (accomplished).
The act of putting to death or being put to death as a penalty, or actions so associated.
(legal) The carrying into effect of a court judgment, or of a will.
(legal) The formal process by which a contract is made valid and put into binding effect.
(computing) The carrying out of an instruction, program or program segment by a computer.
As nouns the difference between ambition and execution
is that ambition is ambition for some particular achievement while execution is execution.ambition
English
Noun
(en-noun)- My son, John, wants to be a firefighter very much. He has a lot of ambition .
- the pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres
- My ambition is to own a helicopter.
- [I] used no ambition to commend my deeds.
Quotations
(English Citations of "ambition")Verb
(en verb)- Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage. — Trumbull.
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English
Noun
(en noun)- The battle plan was successfully executed .
- The entire machine slowed down during the execution of the virus checker .
- Whenever the matrix inversion function executed the program crashed.