- (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 Circulate
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.
verb
- Become widely known and passed on.
- usage: "the rumor spread"; "the story went around in the office"
- Cause to become widely known.
- usage: "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news"
- synonyms: circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse, pass around
- Cause be distributed.
- usage: "This letter is being circulated among the faculty"
- synonyms: pass around, pass on, distribute
- Move through a space, circuit or system, returning to the starting point.
- usage: "Blood circulates in my veins"; "The air here does not circulate"
- Move in circles.
- synonyms: circle
- Cause to move in a circuit or system.
- usage: "The fan circulates the air in the room"
- Move around freely.
- usage: "She circulates among royalty"
- Cause to move around.
- usage: "circulate a rumor"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.i.) To pass from place to place, from person to person or from hand to hand; to be diffused; as, money circulates; a story circulates.
- (v.t.) To cause to pass from place to place or from person to person; to spread; as, to circulate a report; to circulate bills of credit.
- (v.i.) To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary