- (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 Do
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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.
noun
- An uproarious party.
- The syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization.
- Doctor's degree in osteopathy.
- synonyms: Doctor of Osteopathy
verb
- Engage in.
- usage: "make love, not war"; "make an effort"; "do research"; "do nothing"; "make revolution"
- synonyms: make
- Carry out or perform an action.
- usage: "John did the painting, the weeding, and he cleaned out the gutters"; "the skater executed a triple pirouette"; "she did a little dance"
- Get (something) done.
- usage: "I did my job"
- synonyms: perform
- Proceed or get along.
- usage: "How is she doing in her new job"; "How are you making out in graduate school"; "He's come a long way"
- Give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally.
- usage: "cause a commotion"; "make a stir"; "cause an accident"
- Carry out or practice; as of jobs and professions.
- usage: "practice law"
- Be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity.
- usage: "A few words would answer"; "This car suits my purpose well"; "Will $100 do"; "A 'B' grade doesn't suffice to get me into medical school"; "Nothing else will serve"
- Create or design, often in a certain way.
- usage: "Do my room in blue"; "I did this piece in wood to express my love for the forest"
- synonyms: make
- Behave in a certain manner; show a certain behavior; conduct or comport oneself.
- usage: "You should act like an adult"; "Don't behave like a fool"; "What makes her do this way"; "The dog acts ferocious, but he is really afraid of people"
- Spend time in prison or in a labor camp.
- usage: "He did six years for embezzlement"
- synonyms: serve
- Carry on or function.
- usage: "We could do with a little more help around here"
- synonyms: manage
- Arrange attractively.
- usage: "dress my hair for the wedding"
- Travel or traverse (a distance. )
- usage: "This car does 150 miles per hour"; "We did 6 miles on our hike every day"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.i.) To succeed; to avail; to answer the purpose; to serve; as, if no better plan can be found, he will make this do.
- (v.t./auxiliary) To make ready for an object, purpose or use, as food by cooking; to cook completely or sufficiently; as, the meat is done on one side only.
- (n.) A syllable attached to the first tone of the major diatonic scale for the purpose of solmization or solfeggio. It is the first of the seven syllables used by the Italians as manes of musical tones, and replaced, for the sake of euphony, the syllable Ut, applied to the note C. In England and America the same syllables are used by mane as a scale pattern, while the tones in respect to absolute pitch are named from the first seven letters of the alphabet.
- (v.t./auxiliary) To bring to an end by action; to perform completely; to finish; to accomplish; -- a sense conveyed by the construction, which is that of the past participle done.
- (n.) Deed; act; fear.
- (v.t./auxiliary) To bring about; to produce, as an effect or result; to effect; to achieve.
- (v.t./auxiliary) To cheat; to gull; to overreach.
- (v.t./auxiliary) To perform, as an action; to execute; to transact to carry out in action; as, to do a good or a bad act; do our duty; to do what I can.
- (v.t./auxiliary) To see or inspect; to explore; as, to do all the points of interest.
- (v.t./auxiliary) To cause; to make; -- with an infinitive.
- (v.t./auxiliary) To place; to put.
- (n.) Ado; bustle; stir; to do.
- (v.t./auxiliary) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
- (v.t./auxiliary) To put or bring into a form, state or condition, especially in the phrases, to do death, to put to death; to slay; to do away (often do away with), to put away; to remove; to do on, to put on; to don; to do off, to take off, as dress; to doff; to do into, to put into the form of; to translate or transform into, as a text.
- (n.) A cheat; a swindle.
- (v.i.) To fare; to be, as regards health; as, they asked him how he did; how do you do to-day?.
- (v.i.) To act or behave in any manner; to conduct one's self.
- (v.t.) To perform work upon, about, for or at, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order or the like.
- (v.t.) To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
DO is the two-character ISO 3166 country code for DOMINICAN REPUBLIC.