- (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 Convey
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
- Make known; pass on, of information.
- usage: "She conveyed the message to me"
- Serve as a means for expressing something.
- usage: "The painting of Mary carries motherly love"; "His voice carried a lot of anger"
- Transfer to another.
- usage: "communicate a disease"
- synonyms: transmit, communicate
- Transmit a title or property.
- Transmit or serve as the medium for transmission.
- usage: "Sound carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat"
- Take something or somebody with oneself somewhere.
- usage: "Bring me the box from the other room"; "Take these letters to the boss"; "This brings me to the main point"
- Go or come after and bring or take back.
- usage: "Get me those books over there, please"; "Could you bring the wine"; "The dog fetched the hat"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.t.) To accompany; to convoy.
- (v.t.) To carry from one place to another; to bear or transport.
- (v.t.) To manage with privacy; to carry out.
- (v.t.) To transfer or deliver to another; to make over, as property; more strictly (Law), to transfer (real estate) or pass (a title to real estate) by a sealed writing.
- (v.i.) To play the thief; to steal.
- (v.t.) To carry or take away secretly; to steal; to thieve.
- (v.t.) To cause to pass from one place or person to another; to serve as a medium in carrying (anything) from one place or person to another; to transmit; as, air conveys sound; words convey ideas.
- (v.t.) To impart or communicate; as, to convey an impression; to convey information.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
convey is the act of transferring title to real property from one party to another.