Killing vs Execution - What's the difference?
killing | execution |
That literally deprives of life; lethal, deadly, fatal.
Devastatingly attractive.
That makes one ‘die’ with laughter; very funny.
* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 471:
an instance of someone being killed
(informal) A large amount of money.
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.
Execution is a hypernym of killing.
As nouns the difference between killing and execution
is that killing is an instance of someone being killed while execution is the act, manner or style of executing (actions, maneuvers, performances).As a verb killing
is present participle of lang=en.As an adjective killing
is that literally deprives of life; lethal, deadly, fatal.killing
English
(wikipedia killing)Verb
(head)- This work is killing me.
Adjective
(en adjective)- Livia found her ‘killing ’, and derived such amusement from her Martinique French that he was forced to enjoy her as well.
Noun
(en noun)- He made a killing on the stock market.
Derived terms
* honour killing / honor killing * killingly * make a killing * nonkilling * targeted killing * thrill killingexecution
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.