Executed vs Butcher - What's the difference?
executed | butcher |
(execute)
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.
A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
* 1900', , Chapter I,
(by extension) A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
* Shakespeare
(Cockney rhyming slang, from butcher's hook) A look.
(informal, obsolete) A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.
To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
To kill brutally.
To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.
As a verb executed
is (execute).As a proper noun butcher is
for a butcher.executed
English
Verb
(head)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, openbutcher
English
(wikipedia butcher)Noun
(en noun)- He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days...
- Butcher of an innocent child.
Derived terms
* * butcher's hook * pork butcherVerb
(en verb)- The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".
