- (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 Evidence
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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
- Your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief.
- usage: "the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compelling"
- synonyms: grounds
- An indication that makes something evident.
- usage: "his trembling was evidence of his fear"
- Law) all the means by which any alleged matter of fact whose truth is investigated at judicial trial is established or disproved. (
verb
- Provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes.
- usage: "His high fever attested to his illness"; "The buildings in Rome manifest a high level of architectural sophistication"; "This decision demonstrates his sense of fairness"
- synonyms: attest, certify, manifest, demonstrate
- Provide evidence for.
- usage: "The blood test showed that he was the father"; "Her behavior testified to her incompetence"
- synonyms: testify, bear witness, prove, show
- Give evidence.
- usage: "he was telling on all his former colleague"
- synonyms: tell
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.t.) To render evident or clear; to prove; to evince; as, to evidence a fact or the guilt of an offender.
- (n.) One who bears witness.
- (n.) That which is legally submitted to competent tribunal, as a means of ascertaining the truth of any alleged matter of fact under investigation before it; means of making proof; -- the latter, strictly speaking, not being synonymous with evidence, but rather the effect of it.
- (n.) That which makes evident or manifest; that which furnishes or tends to furnish, proof; any mode of proof; the ground of belief or judgement; as, the evidence of our senses; evidence of the truth or falsehood of a statement.
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