- (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 Copy
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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
- A reproduction of a written record (e. G. Of a legal or school record.
- synonyms: transcript
- A thing made to be similar or identical to another thing.
- usage: "she made a copy of the designer dress"; "the clone was a copy of its ancestor"
- Matter to be printed; exclusive of graphical materials.
- synonyms: written matter
- Material suitable for a journalistic account.
- usage: "catastrophes make good copy"
verb
- Copy down as is.
- usage: "The students were made to copy the alphabet over and over"
- Reproduce someone's behavior or looks.
- usage: "The mime imitated the passers-by"; "Children often copy their parents or older siblings"
- Reproduce or make an exact copy of.
- usage: "replicate the cell"; "copy the genetic information"
- synonyms: replicate
- Make a replica of.
- usage: "copy that drawing"; "re-create a picture by Rembrandt"
- synonyms: re-create
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (n.) An individual book or a single set of books containing the works of an author; as, a copy of the Bible; a copy of the works of Addison.
- (n.) That which is to be imitated, transcribed or reproduced; a pattern, model or example; as, his virtues are an excellent copy for imitation.
- (n.) An abundance or plenty of anything.
- (v.i.) To yield a duplicate or transcript; as, the letter did not copy well.
- (n.) To imitate; to attempt to resemble, as in manners or course of life.
- (n.) Manuscript or printed matter to be set up in type; as, the printers are calling for more copy.
- (n.) A writing paper of a particular size. Same as Bastard. See under Paper.
- (v.i.) To make a copy or copies; to imitate.
- (n.) Copyhold; tenure; lease.
- (n.) An imitation, transcript or reproduction of an original work; as, a copy of a letter, an engraving, a painting or a statue.
- (n.) To make a copy or copies of; to write; print, engrave or paint after an original; to duplicate; to reproduce; to transcribe; as, to copy a manuscript, inscription, design, painting, etc.; -- often with out, sometimes with off.
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