- (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 Direct
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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
- Command with authority.
- usage: "He directed the children to do their homework"
- Intend (something) to move towards a certain goal.
- usage: "He aimed his fists towards his opponent's face"; "criticism directed at her superior"; "direct your anger towards others, not towards yourself"
- Guide the actors in (plays and films. )
- Be in charge of.
- Take somebody somewhere.
- usage: "We lead him to our chief"; "can you take me to the main entrance"; "He conducted us to the palace"
- Cause to go somewhere.
- usage: "The explosion sent the car flying in the air"; "She sent her children to camp"; "He directed all his energies into his dissertation"
- synonyms: send
- Point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards.
- usage: "Please don't aim at your little brother"; "He trained his gun on the burglar"; "Don't train your camera on the women"; "Take a swipe at one's opponent"
- Lead, as in the performance of a composition.
- usage: "conduct an orchestra; Barenboim conducted the Chicago symphony for years"
- Give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction.
- usage: "I directed them towards the town hall"
- Specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public.
- Direct the course; determine the direction of travelling.
- synonyms: steer, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, point, head, guide, channelize, channelise
- Put an address on (an envelope.
- synonyms: address
- Plan and direct (a complex undertaking. )
- usage: "he masterminded the robbery"
- synonyms: mastermind, engineer, organize, organise, orchestrate
adjective
- Direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short.
- usage: "a direct route"; "a direct flight"; "a direct hit"
- Having no intervening persons, agents, conditions.
- usage: "in direct sunlight"; "in direct contact with the voters"; "direct exposure to the disease"; "a direct link"; "the direct cause of the accident"; "direct vote"
- synonyms: unmediated
- Straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action.
- usage: "a direct question"; "a direct response"; "a direct approach"
- In a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child.
- usage: "lineal ancestors"; "lineal heirs"; "a direct descendant of the king"; "direct heredity"
- synonyms: lineal
- Moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or-for planets-around the sun in the same direction as the Earth.
- Similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity)
- usage: "a term is in direct proportion to another term if it increases (or decreases) as the other increases (or decreases. "
- Of a current. ( flowing in one direction only)
- usage: "direct current"
- Being an immediate result or consequence.
- usage: "a direct result of the accident"
- In precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker.
- usage: "a direct quotation"; "repeated their dialog verbatim"
- synonyms: verbatim
- Lacking compromising or mitigating elements; exact.
- usage: "the direct opposite"
adverb
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.t.) To put a direction or address upon; to mark with the name and residence of the person to whom anything is sent; to superscribe; as, to direct a letter.
- (a.) Immediate; express; plain; unambiguous.
- (v.t.) To point out to with authority; to instruct as a superior; to order; as, he directed them to go.
- (n.) A character, thus [/], placed at the end of a staff on the line or space of the first note of the next staff, to apprise the performer of its situation.
- (v.t.) To determine the direction or course of; to cause to go on in a particular manner; to order in the way to a certain end; to regulate; to govern; as, to direct the affairs of a nation or the movements of an army.
- (a.) Straightforward; not of crooked ways or swerving from truth and openness; sincere; outspoken.
- (a.) Straight; not crooked, oblique or circuitous; leading by the short or shortest way to a point or end; as, a direct line; direct means.
- (a.) In the direction of the general planetary motion or from west to east; in the order of the signs; not retrograde; -- said of the motion of a celestial body.
- (v.t.) To point out or show to (any one), as the direct or right course or way; to guide, as by pointing out the way; as, he directed me to the left-hand road.
- (v.i.) To give direction; to point out a course; to act as guide.
- (v.t.) To arrange in a direct or straight line, as against a mark or towards a goal; to point; to aim; as, to direct an arrow or a piece of ordnance.
- (a.) In the line of descent; not collateral; as, a descendant in the direct line.
- (a.) Pertaining to or effected immediately by, action of the people through their votes instead of through one or more representatives or delegates; as, direct nomination, direct legislation.
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