- (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 Communicate
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
- Transmit information .
- usage: "Please communicate this message to all employees"; "pass along the good news"
- synonyms: pass on, pass, pass along, put across
- Transmit thoughts or feelings.
- usage: "He communicated his anxieties to the psychiatrist"
- synonyms: intercommunicate
- Transfer to another.
- usage: "communicate a disease"
- Join or connect.
- usage: "The rooms communicated"
- Be in verbal contact; interchange information or ideas.
- usage: "He and his sons haven't communicated for years"; "Do you communicate well with your advisor"
- Administer Communion; in church.
- Receive Communion, in the Catholic church.
- synonyms: commune
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.i.) To give alms, sympathy or aid.
- (v.i.) To make known; to recount; to give; to impart; as, to communicate information to any one.
- (v.i.) To partake of the Lord's supper; to commune.
- (v.i.) To impart; to bestow; to convey; as, to communicate a disease or a sensation; to communicate motion by means of a crank.
- (v.i.) To share or participate; to possess or enjoy in common; to have sympathy.
- (v.i.) To share in common; to participate in.
- (v.i.) To administer the communion to.
- (v.i.) To have intercourse or to be the means of intercourse; as, to communicate with another on business; to be connected; as, a communicating artery.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
(DoD) To use any means or method to convey information of any kind from one person or place to another.
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.