Commit and Bill

• (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.

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"
  • synonyms: entrust, intrust, trust, confide
• Make an investment.
  • usage: "Put money into bonds"
  • synonyms: invest, put, place
• Engage in or perform.
  • usage: "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
  • synonyms: practice

noun

• A statute in draft before it becomes law.
  • usage: "they held a public hearing on the bill"
  • synonyms: measure
• An itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered.
  • usage: "he paid his bill and left"; "send me an account of what I owe"
  • synonyms: account, invoice
• A piece of paper money (especially one issued by a central bank. )
  • usage: "he peeled off five one-thousand-zloty notes"
  • synonyms: note, government note, bank bill, banker's bill, bank note, banknote, Federal Reserve note, greenback
• The entertainment offered at a public presentation.
• An advertisement (usually printed on a page or in a leaflet) intended for wide distribution.
  • usage: "he mailed the circular to all subscribers"
  • synonyms: circular, handbill, broadside, broadsheet, flier, flyer, throwaway
• A sign posted in a public place as an advertisement.
  • usage: "a poster advertised the coming attractions"
  • synonyms: poster, posting, placard, notice, card
• A list of particulars (as a playbill or bill of fare. )
• A long-handled saw with a curved blade.
  • usage: "he used a bill to prune branches off of the tree"
  • synonyms: billhook
• A brim that projects to the front to shade the eyes.
  • usage: "he pulled down the bill of his cap and trudged ahead"
  • synonyms: peak, eyeshade, visor, vizor
• Horny projecting mouth of a bird.
  • synonyms: beak, neb, nib, pecker

verb

• Demand payment.
  • usage: "Will I get charged for this service"; "We were billed for 4 nights in the hotel, although we stayed only 3 nights"
  • synonyms: charge
• Advertise especially by posters or placards.
  • usage: "He was billed as the greatest tenor since Caruso"
• Publicize or announce by placards.
  • synonyms: placard

• (v.t.) To advertise by a bill or public notice.
• (v.i.) To join bills, as doves; to caress in fondness.
• (n.) A weapon of infantry, in the 14th and 15th centuries. A common form of bill consisted of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, having a short pike at the back and another at the top, and attached to the end of a long staff.
• (n.) An account of goods sold, services rendered or work done, with the price or charge; a statement of a creditor's claim, in gross or by items; as, a grocer's bill.
• (v.t.) To charge or enter in a bill; as, to bill goods.
• (n.) One who wields a bill; a billman.
• (n.) A form or draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law.
• (n.) A declaration made in writing, stating some wrong the complainant has suffered from the defendant or a fault committed by some person against a law.
• (n.) A beak, as of a bird or sometimes of a turtle or other animal.
• (n.) A pickax or mattock.
• (n.) The bell or boom, of the bittern.
• (v.t.) To work upon ( as to dig, hoe, hack or chop anything) with a bill.
• (v.i.) To strike; to peck.
• (n.) A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document.
• (n.) A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle; -- used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. When short, called a hand bill, when long, a hedge bill.
• (n.) The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke.
• (n.) A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play or the sale of goods; a placard; a poster; a handbill.
• (n.) Any paper, containing a statement of particulars; as, a bill of charges or expenditures; a weekly bill of mortality; a bill of fare, etc.
• An act or a bill conferring upon a chief executive, as a governor or mayor, large powers of appointment and removal of heads of departments or other subordinate officials.

• English: Nickname for William - resolute protector - often used as an independent name
• German: Form of William - resolute guardian

BILL is a: to enter in an accounting system: prepare a bill of (charges) b: to submit a bill of charges to c: to enter (as freight) in a waybill d: to issue a bill of lading to or for; e. G., "billable expenses" are those expenses for which reimbursement invoices are issued.