- (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 Capture
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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
- The act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property.
- synonyms: gaining control, seizure
- A process whereby a star or planet holds an object in its gravitational field.
- Any process in which an atomic or nuclear system acquires an additional particle.
- The act of taking of a person by force.
- synonyms: seizure
- The removal of an opponent's piece from the chess board.
verb
- Succeed in representing or expressing something intangible.
- usage: "capture the essence of Spring"; "capture an idea"
- Attract; cause to be enamored.
- usage: "She captured all the men's hearts"
- Succeed in catching or seizing, especially after a chase.
- usage: "We finally got the suspect"; "Did you catch the thief"
- Bring about the capture of an elementary particle or celestial body and causing it enter a new orbit.
- usage: "This nucleus has captured the slow-moving neutrons"; "The star captured a comet"
- Take possession of by force, as after an invasion.
- usage: "the invaders seized the land and property of the inhabitants"; "The army seized the town"; "The militia captured the castle"
- synonyms: appropriate, seize, conquer
- Capture as if by hunting, snaring, or trapping.
- usage: "I caught a rabbit in the trap today"
- synonyms: catch
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.t.) To seize or take possession of by force, surprise or stratagem; to overcome and hold; to secure by effort.
- (n.) The act of seizing by force or getting possession of by superior power or by stratagem; as, the capture of an enemy, a vessel or a criminal.
- (n.) The securing of an object of strife or desire, as by the power of some attraction.
- (n.) The thing taken by force, surprise or stratagem; a prize; prey.
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