- (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 Consider
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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
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
- Deem to be.
- usage: "She views this quite differently from me"; "I consider her to be shallow"; "I don't see the situation quite as negatively as you do"
- Give careful consideration to.
- usage: "consider the possibility of moving"
- synonyms: study
- Take into consideration for exemplifying purposes.
- usage: "Take the case of China"; "Consider the following case"
- Show consideration for; take into account.
- usage: "You must consider her age"; "The judge considered the offender's youth and was lenient"
- Think about carefully; weigh.
- usage: "They considered the possibility of a strike"; "Turn the proposal over in your mind"
- synonyms: debate, moot, turn over, deliberate
- Judge or regard; look upon; judge.
- usage: "I think he is very smart"; "I believe her to be very smart"; "I think that he is her boyfriend"; "The racist conceives such people to be inferior"
- Look at attentively.
- synonyms: regard
- Look at carefully; study mentally.
- usage: "view a problem"
- Regard or treat with consideration, respect, and esteem.
- usage: "Please consider your family"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.i.) To think seriously; to make examination; to reflect; to deliberate.
- (v.t.) To estimate; to think; to regard; to view.
- (v.t.) To have regard to; to take into view or account; to pay due attention to; to respect.
- (v.t.) To look at attentively; to observe; to examine.
- (v.t.) To fix the mind on, with a view to a careful examination; to think on with care; to ponder; to study; to meditate on.
- (v.i.) To hesitate.
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