Impose vs Execute - What's the difference?
impose | execute |
To establish or apply by authority.
* Milton
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to be an inconvenience
to enforce: compel to behave in a certain way
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To practice a trick or deception.
To lay on, as the hands, in the religious rites of confirmation and ordination.
To arrange in proper order on a table of stone or metal and lock up in a chase for printing; said of columns or pages of type, forms, etc.
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.
In transitive terms the difference between impose and execute
is that impose is to establish or apply by authority while execute is to cause to become legally valid; as, to execute a contract.impose
English
Verb
(impos)- Death is the penalty imposed .
- Congress imposed new tariffs.
- Localities across New Jersey imposed curfews to prevent looting. In Monmouth, Ocean and other counties, people waited for hours for gasoline at the few stations that had electricity. Supermarket shelves were stripped bare.
- I don't wish to impose upon you.
- Social relations impose courtesy
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Derived terms
* imposition * superimpose * imposureExternal links
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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
