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Noyade vs Execution - What's the difference?

noyade | execution |

As nouns the difference between noyade and execution

is that noyade is a murder by drowning; especially, one of those carried out during the french while execution is execution.

noyade

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A murder by drowning; especially, one of those carried out during the French .
  • *1837 , (Thomas Carlyle), The French Revolution :
  • *:By degrees, daylight itself witnesses Noyades : women and men are tied together, feet and feet, hands and hands; and flung in: this they call Mariage Républicain , Republican Marriage.
  • *2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 486:
  • *:Alongside this, there were the infamous noyades : perhaps 2,000 alleged counter-revolutionaries strapped in to barges were towed into the river Loire where the barges were scuppered, leaving the victims to drown.
  • Anagrams

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    execution

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act, manner or style of executing (actions, maneuvers, performances).
  • *
  • The state of being executed (accomplished).
  • The battle plan was successfully executed .
  • 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.
  • The entire machine slowed down during the execution of the virus checker .
    Whenever the matrix inversion function executed the program crashed.

    Derived terms

    * execution style * posthumous execution

    Hyponyms

    * (penalty of death) crucifixion, electrocution, hanging, lethal injection