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Execute vs Applicate - What's the difference?

execute | applicate |

As verbs the difference between execute and applicate

is that execute is while applicate is to apply (a material to a surface).

As a noun applicate is

an applied material; an application.

As an adjective applicate is

applied or put to some use.

execute

English

Verb

(execut)
  • To kill as punishment for capital crimes.
    • There are certain states where it is lawful to execute prisoners convicted of certain crimes.
  • To carry out; to put into effect.
    • Your orders have been executed , sir!
    I'll execute your orders as soon as this meeting is adjourned.
  • * Milton
    • Why delays / His hand to execute what his decree / Fixed on this day?
  • To perform.
    • to execute a difficult piece of music brilliantly
    to execute a turn in ballet
  • To cause to become legally valid; as, to execute a contract.
  • (computing) To start, launch or run; as, to execute a program.

    • Synonyms

    * (computing) start, launch, run, open

    Related terms

    * executable * execution * executioner * executive * executor * executed * See also

    applicate

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An applied material; an application
  • (mathematics) A line at right angles to the axis of a conic section that extends from the axis to the curve
  • (mathematics) The z-, similar to abscissa and ordinate for the x- and y-coordinates, respectively.

    • See also

    * abscissa * ordinate

    Verb

    (applicat)
  • To apply (a material to a surface)

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • Applied or put to some use.
  • * I. Taylor
    • Those applicate sciences which extend the power of man over the elements.
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