implement

Borrowed from Late Latin implēmentum (“a filling up”), from Latin impleō (“I fill up”).

• enPR: ĭmʹplə-mənt, IPA^(key): /ˈɪmpləmənt/

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implement (plural implements)

1. A tool or instrument for working with.

   They carried an assortment of gardening implements in the truck.

   • 1900, Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, (translated by James Strachey) pg. 234:

     A man dreamt as follows: He saw two boys struggling—barrel-maker’s boys, to judge by the implements lying around.

• See also Thesaurus:instrument

From Scottish English or Scots implement (“fulfill”)

• enPR: ĭmʹplə-mĕnt, IPA^(key): /ˈɪmpləmɛnt/

implement (third-person singular simple present implements, present participle implementing, simple past and past participle implemented)

1. to bring about; to put into practice

   It’s a good thought, but it will be a difficult thing to implement.

2. to carry out; to do

• Objects: plan, programme, strategy, policy, agreement, order, specification, etc.

• implementable
• implementation
• implementer

• implement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• implement in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.