Execute vs Evaluate - What's the difference?
execute | evaluate |
To kill as punishment for capital crimes.
To carry out; to put into effect.
* Milton
To perform.
To cause to become legally valid; as, to execute a contract.
(computing) To start, launch or run; as, to execute a program.
to draw conclusions from examining; to assess
(mathematics) to compute or determine the value of (an expression)
To return or have a specific value.
* 2006 , Lev Sabinin, Larissa Sbitneva, Ivan Shestakov, Non-Associative Algebra and Its Applications , CRC Press (ISBN 9780824726690), page 201
* 2007 , James E. Gentle, Matrix Algebra: Theory, Computations, and Applications in Statistics , Springer Science & Business Media (ISBN 9780387708720), page 165
In transitive terms the difference between execute and evaluate
is that execute is to cause to become legally valid; as, to execute a contract while evaluate is to draw conclusions from examining; to assess.execute
English
Verb
(execut)- There are certain states where it is lawful to execute prisoners convicted of certain crimes.
- Your orders have been executed , sir!
- I'll execute your orders as soon as this meeting is adjourned.
- Why delays / His hand to execute what his decree / Fixed on this day?
- to execute a difficult piece of music brilliantly
- to execute a turn in ballet
Synonyms
* (computing) start, launch, run, openevaluate
English
Verb
(evaluat)- It will take several years to evaluate the material gathered in the survey.
- Evaluate this polynomial.
- Since element (15.1) evaluates' to an element of the center in any alternative algebra, (15.1) has to ' evaluate to a scalar multiple of the identity element of the Cayley-Dickson algebra.
- In one type of such an integral, the integrand is only the probability density function, and the integral evaluates to a probability, which of course is a scalar.