implement
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Verb (3)implements, implemented, implementing
- apply in a manner consistent with its purpose or design“implement a procedure”More general use, utilize
- ensure observance of laws and rules“Apply the rules to everyone”Synonyms: enforceapplyOpposite exemptMore general compel, obligeMore specific run, execute
- pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue“Did he go through with the treatment?”“He implemented a new economic plan”“She followed up his recommendations with a written proposal”Synonyms: follow throughfollow upfollow outcarry output throughgo through withMore general complete, finishMore specific adhereSimilar carry through, accomplish
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Translations
Verb bring about
- Spanish
- implementar
- French
- mettre en œuvre
- German
- umsetzen
- Italian
- implementare
- Portuguese
- implementar
- Turkish
- uygulamak
- Russian
- выполня́ть vypolnjátʹ
- Arabic
- نَفَّذَ naffaḏa
- Chinese
- 实施 shíshī
- Dutch
- implementeren
16 more languages
- Polish
- wprowadzić w życie
- Swedish
- implementera
- Korean
- 실행하다 silhaenghada
- Vietnamese
- thực hiện
- Hungarian
- megvalósít
- Portuguese (PT)
- implementar
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 實施 shíshī
- Catalan
- implementar
- Czech
- implementovat
- Esperanto
- efektivigi
- Hebrew
- יישם yisém
- Latvian
- īstenot
- Romanian
- implementa
- Scottish Gaelic
- cuir an gnìomh
- Serbo-Croatian
- ostvariti
- Swahili
- tekeleza
Noun a tool
- Spanish
- herramienta
- French
- instrument
- German
- Werkzeug
- Italian
- arnese
- Portuguese
- ferramenta
- Turkish
- araç
- Russian
- инструме́нт instrumént
- Arabic
- أَدَاة ʔadāh
- Chinese
- 工具 gōngjù
- Japanese
- 道具 dōgu
18 more languages
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: LL. implementum accomplishment, fr. L. implere, impletum, to fill up, finish, complete; pref. im- in + plere to fill. The word was perh. confused with OF. empleier, emploier, to employ, F. employer, whence E. employ. See Plenty.
That which fulfills or supplies a want or use; esp., an instrument, tool, or utensil, as supplying a requisite to an end; as, the implements of trade, of husbandry, or of war.
Genius must have talent as its complement and implement.— Samuel T. Coleridge
1. To accomplish; to fulfill. rare
Revenge... executed and implemented by the hand of Vanbeest Brown.— Sir Walter Scott
2. To provide with an implement or implements; to cause to be fulfilled, satisfied, or carried out, by means of an implement or implements.
The chief mechanical requisites of the barometer are implemented in such an instrument as the following.— John Pringle Nichol
3. Scots law To fulfill or perform, as a contract or an engagement.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54