- (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 Display
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.
noun
- Something intended to communicate a particular impression.
- usage: "made a display of strength"; "a show of impatience"; "a good show of looking interested"
- synonyms: show
- Something shown to the public.
- usage: "the museum had many exhibits of oriental art"
- A visual representation of something.
- synonyms: presentation
- Behavior that makes your feelings public.
- usage: "a display of emotion"
- Exhibiting openly in public view.
- usage: "a display of courage"
- An electronic device that represents information in visual form.
- synonyms: video display
verb
- To show, make visible or apparent.
- usage: "The Metropolitan Museum is exhibiting Goya's works this month"; "Why don't you show your nice legs and wear shorter skirts"; "National leaders will have to display the highest skills of statesmanship"
- Attract attention by displaying some body part or posing; of animals. .
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.t.) To make an exhibition of; to set in view conspicuously or ostentatiously; to exhibit for the sake of publicity; to parade.
- (v.t.) To unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread.
- (v.t.) To discover; to descry.
- (v.t.) To make conspicuous by large or prominent type.
- (v.i.) To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.
- (n.) An opening or unfolding; exhibition; manifestation.
- (n.) Ostentatious show; exhibition for effect; parade.
- (v.t.) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line.
- (v.t.) To spread before the view; to show; to exhibit to the sight or to the mind; to make manifest.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
(DoD) In military deception, a static portrayal of an activity, force, or equipment intended to deceive the adversary's visual observation.
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.