- (v.t.) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
- (v.t.) To confound.
- (v.i.) To sin; especially, to be incontinent.
- (v.t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
- (v.t.) To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
- (v.t.) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.
- (v.t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin or fault.
Commit and Add
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
verb
- Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
- usage: "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
- synonyms: perpetrate, pull
- Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.
- usage: "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"
- synonyms: give, dedicate, consecrate, devote
- Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
- usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
- synonyms: institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge
- Confer a trust upon.
- usage: "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"
- Make an investment.
- usage: "Put money into bonds"
- Engage in or perform.
- usage: "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
- synonyms: practice
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(DoD) The process of committing one or more air interceptors or surface-to-air missiles for interception against a target track.
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.
noun
- A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders.
verb
- Make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with others; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of.
- usage: "We added two students to that dorm room"; "She added a personal note to her letter"; "Add insult to injury"; "Add some extra plates to the dinner table"
- State or say further.
- usage: "`It doesn't matter,' he supplied"
- Bestow a quality on.
- usage: "Her presence lends a certain cachet to the company"; "The music added a lot to the play"; "She brings a special atmosphere to our meetings"; "This adds a light note to the program"
- synonyms: lend, impart, bestow, contribute, bring
- Make an addition by combining numbers.
- usage: "Add 27 and 49, please"
- synonyms: add together
- Determine the sum of.
- usage: "Add all the people in this town to those of the neighboring town"
- Constitute an addition.
- usage: "This paper will add to her reputation"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.t.) To give by way of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on).
- (v.t.) To join or unite, as one thing to another or as several particulars, so as to increase the number, augment the quantity, enlarge the magnitude or so as to form into one aggregate. Hence: To sum up; to put together mentally; as, to add numbers; to add up a column.
- (v.t.) To append, as a statement; to say further.
- (v.i.) To make an addition. To add to, to augment; to increase; as, it adds to our anxiety.
- (v.i.) To perform the arithmetical operation of addition; as, he adds rapidly.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
(Military) ADD stands for assign on-line diagnostic
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.