execrable

adj 1: of very poor quality or condition; "deplorable housing

conditions in the inner city"; "woeful treatment of

the accused"; "woeful errors of judgment" [syn: {deplorable},

{miserable}, {woeful}, {wretched}]

2: unequivocally detestable; "abominable treatment of

prisoners"; "detestable vices"; "execrable crimes";

"consequences odious to those you govern"- Edmund Burke

[syn: {abominable}, {detestable}, {odious}]

3: deserving a curse; "her damnable pride" [syn: {damnable}]

executable

A {binary} file containing a program in

{machine language} which is ready to be {execute}d (run).

The term might also be, but generally isn't, applied to

{scripts} which are interpreted by a {command line

interpreter}. Executables are distinguished in {Unix} by

having the execute permission bits set, at least for the

owner. {MS-DOS} uses the {filename extension} ".exe".

(1997-06-21)