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Execute vs. Start — What's the Difference?

Execute vs. Start — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Execute and Start

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Execute

To put into effect; carry out
A government that executes the decisions of the ruling party.

Start

Begin or be reckoned from a particular point in time or space; come into being
We ate before the film started
The season starts in September
Below Roaring Springs the real desert starts

Execute

To perform; do
Execute a U-turn.

Start

Cause to happen or begin
Those women started all the trouble
I'm starting a campaign to get the law changed
Two men started the blaze

Execute

To create (a work of art, for example) in accordance with a prescribed design.
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Start

Jerk or give a small jump from surprise or alarm
‘Oh my!’ she said, starting

Execute

To make valid, as by signing
Execute a deed.

Start

The point in time or space at which something has its origin; the beginning
The event was a shambles from start to finish
He takes over as chief executive at the start of next year
His bicycle was found close to the start of a forest trail

Execute

To perform or carry out what is required by
Execute the terms of a will.

Start

A sudden movement of surprise or alarm
She awoke with a start
The woman gave a nervous start

Execute

To put to death, especially by carrying out a lawful sentence.

Start

To begin a movement, activity, or undertaking
She started to dance. The dog started barking. Once we start in, we'll get a feel for the project.

Execute

(Computers) To run (a program or instruction).

Start

To move on the initial part of a journey
They started for the summit.

Execute

(transitive) To kill, especially as punishment for a capital crime. Category:en:Capital punishment
There are certain states where it is lawful to execute prisoners convicted of certain crimes.
According to international treaties, it is illegal to execute prisoners of war.

Start

To have a beginning; commence
The movie starts at nine.

Execute

(transitive) To carry out; to put into effect.
Your orders have been executed, sir!
I'll execute your orders as soon as this meeting is adjourned.

Start

To come quickly into view, life, or activity; spring forth
The boy's tears started when the balloon popped.

Execute

(transitive) To perform.
To execute a difficult piece of music brilliantly
To execute a turn in ballet

Start

To have as an initial part or job
I started as an assistant.

Execute

To carry out, to perform an act; to put into effect or cause to become legally binding or valid (as a contract) by so doing.
To execute a contract

Start

To move one's body or a part of it suddenly or involuntarily
Started at the loud noise.

Execute

To start, launch or run
To execute a program

Start

(Sports) To be in the initial lineup of a game or race.

Execute

To run, usually successfully.
The program executed, but data problems were discovered.

Start

To protrude or bulge
Eyes that fairly started from their sockets in fear.

Execute

To follow out or through to the end; to carry out into complete effect; to complete; to finish; to effect; to perform.
Why delaysHis hand to execute what his decreeFixed on this day?

Start

To become loosened or disengaged.

Execute

To complete, as a legal instrument; to perform what is required to give validity to, as by signing and perhaps sealing and delivering; as, to execute a deed, lease, mortgage, will, etc.

Start

To take the first step in doing
We start work at dawn.

Execute

To give effect to; to do what is provided or required by; to perform the requirements or stipulations of; as, to execute a decree, judgment, writ, or process.

Start

To cause to come into being; make happen or originate
Bad wiring started the fire. The website started the rumor.

Execute

To infect capital punishment on; to put to death in conformity to a legal sentence; as, to execute a traitor.

Start

To set into motion, operation, or activity
Start an engine.
A shot that started the race.

Execute

To put to death illegally; to kill.

Start

To begin to attend
Start school.

Execute

To perform, as a piece of music or other feat of skill, whether on an instrument or with the voice, or in any other manner requiring physical activity; as, to execute a difficult part brilliantly; to execute a coup; to execute a double play.

Start

To cause (someone) to have an initial position or role
The manager started him in marketing.

Execute

To do one's work; to act one's part or purpose.

Start

To play in the initial lineup of (a game).

Execute

To perform musically.

Start

To put (a player) into the initial lineup of a game.

Execute

Kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment;
In some states, criminals are executed

Start

To enter (a participant) into a race or game.

Execute

Murder execution-style;
The Mafioso who collaborated with the police was executed

Start

To found; establish
Start a business.

Execute

Put in effect;
Carry out a task
Execute the decision of the people
He actioned the operation

Start

To tend in an early stage of development
Start seedlings.

Execute

Carry out the legalities of;
Execute a will or a deed

Start

To rouse (game) from its hiding place or lair; flush.

Execute

Carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a machine;
Run the dishwasher
Run a new program on the Mac
The computer executed the instruction

Start

To cause to become displaced or loosened.

Execute

Carry out or perform an action;
John did the painting, the weeding, and he cleaned out the gutters
The skater executed a triple pirouette
She did a little dance

Start

An act of beginning; an initial effort
I made a start on keeping a journal.

Execute

Sign in the presence of witnesses;
The President executed the treaty

Start

The beginning of a new construction project
An application for a building start.

Start

A result of an initial effort
What we did may not sound like much, but it's a start.

Start

A place or time of beginning
At the start of the decade.

Start

A starting line for a race.

Start

A signal to begin a race.

Start

An instance of beginning a race
A sprinter who improved her start.

Start

An instance of being in the starting lineup for a game, especially as a pitcher
In five starts, he has three wins.

Start

A startled reaction or movement.

Start

A part that has become dislocated or loosened.

Start

A position of advantage over others, as in a race or an endeavor; a lead
Our rivals have a three-month start in research.

Start

An opportunity granted to pursue a career or course of action.

Start

The beginning of an activity.
The movie was entertaining from start to finish.

Start

A sudden involuntary movement.
He woke with a start.

Start

The beginning point of a race, a board game, etc.
Captured pieces are returned to the start of the board.

Start

An appearance in a sports game, horserace, etc., from the beginning of the event.
Jones has been a substitute before, but made his first start for the team last Sunday.

Start

(horticulture) A young plant germinated in a pot to be transplanted later.

Start

An initial advantage over somebody else; a head start.
To get, or have, the start

Start

A happening or proceeding.

Start

An instance of starting.

Start

A projection or protrusion; that which pokes out.

Start

A handle, especially that of a plough.

Start

The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water wheel bucket.

Start

The arm, or level, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.

Start

(transitive) To begin, commence, initiate.

Start

To set in motion.
To start a stream of water;
To start a rumour;
To start a business

Start

To begin.

Start

To ready the operation of a vehicle or machine.
To start the engine

Start

To put or raise (a question, an objection); to put forward (a subject for discussion).

Start

To bring onto being or into view; to originate; to invent.

Start

(intransitive) To begin an activity.
The rain started at 9:00.

Start

(intransitive) To have its origin (at), begin.
The speed limit is 50 km/h, starting at the edge of town.
The blue line starts one foot away from the wall.

Start

To startle or be startled; to move or be moved suddenly.

Start

(intransitive) To jerk suddenly in surprise.

Start

(intransitive) To awaken suddenly.

Start

(transitive) To disturb and cause to move suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly.
The hounds started a fox.

Start

(intransitive) To flinch or draw back.

Start

(transitive) To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate.
To start a bone;
The storm started the bolts in the vessel

Start

(intransitive) To break away, to come loose.

Start

To put into play.

Start

To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from.
To start a water cask

Start

To start one's periods (menstruation).
Have you started yet?

Start

To leap; to jump.

Start

To move suddenly, as with a spring or leap, from surprise, pain, or other sudden feeling or emotion, or by a voluntary act.
And maketh him out of his sleep to start.
I start as from some dreadful dream.
Keep your soul to the work when ready to start aside.
But if he start,It is the flesh of a corrupted heart.

Start

To set out; to commence a course, as a race or journey; to begin; as, to start in business.
At once they start, advancing in a line.
At intervals some bird from out the brakesStarts into voice a moment, then is still.

Start

To become somewhat displaced or loosened; as, a rivet or a seam may start under strain or pressure.

Start

To cause to move suddenly; to disturb suddenly; to startle; to alarm; to rouse; to cause to flee or fly; as, the hounds started a fox.
Upon malicious bravery dost thou comeTo start my quiet?
Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Cæsar.

Start

To bring into being or into view; to originate; to invent.
Sensual men agree in the pursuit of every pleasure they can start.

Start

To cause to move or act; to set going, running, or flowing; as, to start a railway train; to start a mill; to start a stream of water; to start a rumor; to start a business.
I was engaged in conversation upon a subject which the people love to start in discourse.

Start

To move suddenly from its place or position; to displace or loosen; to dislocate; as, to start a bone; the storm started the bolts in the vessel.
One, by a fall in wrestling, started the end of the clavicle from the sternum.

Start

To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from; as, to start a water cask.

Start

The act of starting; a sudden spring, leap, or motion, caused by surprise, fear, pain, or the like; any sudden motion, or beginning of motion.
The fright awakened Arcite with a start.

Start

A convulsive motion, twitch, or spasm; a spasmodic effort.
For she did speak in starts distractedly.
Nature does nothing by starts and leaps, or in a hurry.

Start

A sudden, unexpected movement; a sudden and capricious impulse; a sally; as, starts of fancy.
To check the starts and sallies of the soul.

Start

The beginning, as of a journey or a course of action; first motion from a place; act of setting out; the outset; - opposed to finish.
The start of first performance is all.
I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips,Straining upon the start.
At a start he was betwixt them two.

Start

A tail, or anything projecting like a tail.

Start

The handle, or tail, of a plow; also, any long handle.

Start

The curved or inclined front and bottom of a water-wheel bucket.

Start

The arm, or lever, of a gin, drawn around by a horse.

Start

A Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union which provided for stepwise reductions in the number of nuclear weapons possessed by each country.

Start

The beginning of anything;
It was off to a good start

Start

The time at which something is supposed to begin;
They got an early start
She knew from the get-go that he was the man for her

Start

A turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning);
He got his start because one of the regular pitchers was in the hospital
His starting meant that the coach thought he was one of their best linemen

Start

A sudden involuntary movement;
He awoke with a start

Start

The act of starting something;
He was responsible for the beginning of negotiations

Start

A line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game

Start

A signal to begin (as in a race);
The starting signal was a green light
The runners awaited the start

Start

Advantage gained by an early start as in a race;
With an hour's start he will be hard to catch

Start

Take the first step or steps in carrying out an action;
We began working at dawn
Who will start?
Get working as soon as the sun rises!
The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia
He began early in the day
Let's get down to work now

Start

Set in motion, cause to start;
The U.S. started a war in the Middle East
The Iraqis began hostilities
Begin a new chapter in your life

Start

Leave;
The family took off for Florida

Start

Have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense;
The DMZ begins right over the hill
The second movement begins after the Allegro
Prices for these homes start at $250,000

Start

Bring into being;
He initiated a new program
Start a foundation

Start

Get off the ground;
Who started this company?
We embarked on an exciting enterprise
I start my day with a good breakfast
We began the new semester
The afternoon session begins at 4 PM
The blood shed started when the partisans launched a surprise attack

Start

Move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm;
She startled when I walked into the room

Start

Get going or set in motion;
We simply could not start the engine
Start up the computer

Start

Begin or set in motion;
I start at eight in the morning
Ready, set, go!

Start

Begin work or acting in a certain capacity, office or job;
Take up a position
Start a new job

Start

Play in the starting line-up

Start

Have a beginning characterized in some specified way;
The novel begins with a murder
My property begins with the three maple trees
Her day begins with a work-out
The semester begins with a convocation ceremony

Start

Begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object;
Begin a cigar
She started the soup while it was still hot
We started physics in 10th grade

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