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English Dictionary: implement by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
implement
n
  1. instrumentation (a piece of equipment or tool) used to effect an end
v
  1. apply in a manner consistent with its purpose or design; "implement a procedure"
  2. ensure observance of laws and rules; "Apply the rules to everyone";
    Synonym(s): enforce, implement, apply
    Antonym(s): exempt, free, relieve
  3. 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"
    Synonym(s): follow through, follow up, follow out, carry out, implement, put through, go through
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Implement \Im"ple*ment\, v. t.
      1. To accomplish; to fulfill. [R.]
  
                     Revenge . . . executed and implemented by the hand
                     of Vanbeest Brown.                              --Sir W.
                                                                              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.
                                                                              --Nichol.
  
      3. (Scots Law) To fulfill or perform, as a contract or an
            engagement.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Implement \Im"ple*ment\, n. [LL. implementum accomplishment, fr.
      L. implere, impletum, to fill up, finish, complete; pref. im-
      in + plere to fill. The word was perh. confuse 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, toll, 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.                                             --Coleridge.
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