- (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 Broadcast
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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
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(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
- Message that is transmitted by radio or television.
- A radio or television show.
- usage: "did you see his program last night"
verb
- Broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television.
- usage: "We cannot air this X-rated song"
- Sow over a wide area, especially by hand.
- usage: "broadcast seeds"
- Cause to become widely known.
- usage: "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news"
- synonyms: circulate, circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, propagate, spread, diffuse, disperse, pass around
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- (a.) Scattering in all directions (as a method of sowing); -- opposed to planting in hills or rows.
- (adv.) So as to scatter or be scattered in all directions; so as to spread widely, as seed from the hand in sowing or news from the press.
- (n.) A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.
- (a.) Cast or dispersed in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; widely diffused.
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