- (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 Feed
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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
- Food for domestic livestock.
- synonyms: provender
verb
- Give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on.
- usage: "Remember to tip the waiter"; "fee the steward"
- Provide as food.
- usage: "Feed the guests the nuts"
- Give food to.
- usage: "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat"
- synonyms: give
- Feed into; supply.
- usage: "Her success feeds her vanity"
- Introduce continuously.
- usage: "feed carrots into a food processor"
- synonyms: feed in
- Support or promote.
- usage: "His admiration fed her vanity"
- Take in food; used of animals only.
- usage: "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat"
- synonyms: eat
- Serve as food for; be the food for.
- usage: "This dish feeds six"
- Move along, of liquids.
- usage: "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi"
- Profit from in an exploitatory manner.
- usage: "He feeds on her insecurity"
- synonyms: prey
- Gratify.
- usage: "feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view"
- synonyms: feast
- Provide with fertilizers or add nutrients to.
- usage: "We should fertilize soil if we want to grow healthy plants"
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- (n.) The supply of material to a machine, as water to a steam boiler, coal to a furnace or grain to a run of stones.
- (v.t.) To nourish, in a general sense; to foster, strengthen, develop, and guard.
- (n.) A grazing or pasture ground.
- (n.) The mechanism by which the action of feeding is produced; a feed motion.
- (imp.&p.p.) of Fee.
- (v.t.) To satisfy; grafity or minister to, as any sense, talent, taste or desire.
- (v.t.) To graze; to cause to be cropped by feeding, as herbage by cattle; as, if grain is too forward in autumn, feed it with sheep.
- (v.i.) To take food; to eat.
- (v.t.) To fill the wants of; to supply with that which is used or wasted; as, springs feed ponds; the hopper feeds the mill; to feed a furnace with coal.
- (v.t.) To produce progressive operation upon or with (as in wood and metal working machines, so that the work moves to the cutting tool or the tool to the work).
- (n.) That which is eaten; especially, food for beasts; fodder; pasture; hay; grain, ground or whole; as, the best feed for sheep.
- (n.) The motion or act, of carrying forward the stuff to be operated upon, as cloth to the needle in a sewing machine; or of producing progressive operation upon any material or object in a machine, as, in a turning lathe, by moving the cutting tool along or in the work.
- (n.) An allowance of provender given to a horse, cow, etc.; a meal; as, a feed of corn or oats.
- (v.t.) To give food to; to supply with nourishment; to satisfy the physical huger of.
- (n.) The water supplied to steam boilers.
- (v.t.) To supply (the material to be operated upon) to a machine; as, to feed paper to a printing press.
- (v.i.) To be nourished, strengthened or satisfied, as if by food.
- (v.t.) To give for food, especially to animals; to furnish for consumption; as, to feed out turnips to the cows; to feed water to a steam boiler.
- (n.) A meal or the act of eating.
- (v.i.) To subject by eating; to satisfy the appetite; to feed one's self (upon something); to prey; -- with on or upon.
- (v.i.) To place cattle to feed; to pasture; to graze.
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