CARRYING OUT

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I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it

Example:

experience generally improves performance

Synonyms:

carrying into action; carrying out; execution; performance

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("carrying out" is a kind of...):

action (something done (usually as opposed to something said))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "carrying out"):

specific performance (the performance of a legal contract as specified by its terms)

linguistic performance ((linguistics) a speaker's actual use of language in real situations; what the speaker actually says, including grammatical errors and other non-linguistic features such as hesitations and other disfluencies (contrasted with linguistic competence))

mechanics; mechanism (the technical aspects of doing something)

officiation (the performance of a religious or ceremonial or public duty)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order

Example:

the agency was created for the implementation of the policy

Synonyms:

carrying out; execution; implementation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("carrying out" is a kind of...):

enforcement (the act of enforcing; ensuring observance of or obedience to)

Credits

Context examples:

The report recommends carrying out new risk analyses that look into associated disasters, increasingly extreme weather, and rising sea level in coastal cities, particularly in the North and Northeast of the country, to help find out which risks the cities and populations are prepared to deal with.

(Brazil's coastal cities more vulnerable to climate change, Agência Brasil)

From babies who had but a week or two of life behind them, to crooked old men and women who seemed to have but a week or two of life before them; and from ploughmen bodily carrying out soil of England on their boots, to smiths taking away samples of its soot and smoke upon their skins; every age and occupation appeared to be crammed into the narrow compass of the “tween decks.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We are still carrying out additional studies to apply the technology on an industrial scale, says Eduardo José Arruda, an industrial chemical engineer at the Federal University of Grande Dourados (UFGD), and one of the new biofilm creators.

(Protective bio-shell could extend egg shelf life, SciDev.Net)

In the study, healthy people aged 65-77 who drank concentrated blueberry juice every day showed improvements in cognitive function, blood flow to the brain and activation of the brain while carrying out cognitive tests.

(Blueberry Concentrate Improves Brain Function in Older People, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Ten picked shots under Aylward stood in line across the broad deck, and it was a lesson to the young squires who had seen nothing of war to note how orderly and how cool were these old soldiers, how quick the command, and how prompt the carrying out, ten moving like one.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We guard our secret very jealously, however, and if it once became known that we had hydraulic engineers coming to our little house, it would soon rouse inquiry, and then, if the facts came out, it would be good-bye to any chance of getting these fields and carrying out our plans.