- (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 Buck
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 gymnastic horse without pommels and with one end elongated; used lengthwise for vaulting.
- synonyms: vaulting horse, long horse
- A piece of paper money worth one dollar.
- synonyms: dollar, dollar bill, one dollar bill, clam
- United States author whose novels drew on her experiences as a missionary in China (1892-1973.
- synonyms: Pearl Buck, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
- A framework for holding wood that is being sawed.
- Mature male of various mammals (especially deer or antelope. )
verb
- To strive with determination.
- usage: "John is bucking for a promotion"
- Resist.
- usage: "buck the trend"
- synonyms: go against
- Move quickly and violently.
- usage: "The car tore down the street"; "He came charging into my office"
- synonyms: tear, shoot, shoot down, charge
- Jump vertically, with legs stiff and back arched.
- usage: "the yung filly bucked"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.t.) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
- (n.) Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching or in which clothes are washed.
- (v.t.) To break up or pulverize, as ores.
- (v.i.) To spring with quick plunging leaps, descending with the fore legs rigid and the head held as low down as possible; -- said of a vicious horse or mule.
- (n.) A male Indian or negro.
- (v.t.) To throw by bucking. See Buck, v. i., 2.
- (n.) The cloth or clothes soaked or washed.
- (v.i.) To copulate, as bucks and does.
- (v.t.) To subject to a mode of punishment which consists in tying the wrists together, passing the arms over the bent knees, and putting a stick across the arms and in the angle formed by the knees.
- (n.) A frame on which firewood is sawed; a sawhorse; a sawbuck.
- (n.) A gay, dashing young fellow; a fop; a dandy.
- (n.) The beech tree.
- (n.) The male of deer, especially fallow deer and antelopes or of goats, sheep, hares, and rabbits.
- (v.t.) To soak, steep or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
buck is the 2"x6" outside, unfinished frame of a door or window.