- (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 Create
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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
- Make or cause to be or to become.
- usage: "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor"
- synonyms: make
- Bring into existence.
- usage: "The company was created 25 years ago"; "He created a new movement in painting"
- Pursue a creative activity; be engaged in a creative activity.
- usage: "Don't disturb him-he is creating"
- Invest with a new title, office, or rank.
- usage: "Create one a peer"
- Create by artistic means.
- usage: "create a poem"; "Schoenberg created twelve-tone music"; "Picasso created Cubism"; "Auden made verses"
- synonyms: make
- Create or manufacture a man-made product.
- usage: "We produce more cars than we can sell"; "The company has been making toys for two centuries"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.t.) To bring into being; to form out of nothing; to cause to exist.
- (a.) Created; composed; begotten.
- (v.t.) To effect by the agency, and under the laws, of causation; to be the occasion of; to cause; to produce; to form or fashion; to renew.
- (v.t.) To invest with a new form, office or character; to constitute; to appoint; to make; as, to create one a peer.
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