- (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 Guide
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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
- Someone employed to conduct others.
- synonyms: usher
- Someone who shows the way by leading or advising.
- Something that offers basic information or instruction.
- synonyms: guidebook
- A model or standard for making comparisons.
- Someone who can find paths through unexplored territory.
- synonyms: scout, pathfinder
- A structure or marking that serves to direct the motion or positioning of something.
verb
- Direct the course; determine the direction of travelling.
- synonyms: steer, maneuver, manoeuver, manoeuvre, direct, point, head, channelize, channelise
- Take somebody somewhere.
- usage: "We lead him to our chief"; "can you take me to the main entrance"; "He conducted us to the palace"
- Be a guiding or motivating force or drive.
- usage: "The teacher steered the gifted students towards the more challenging courses"
- synonyms: steer
- Use as a guide.
- usage: "They had the lights to guide on"
- synonyms: guide on
- Pass over, across, or through.
- usage: "He ran his eyes over her body"; "She ran her fingers along the carved figurine"; "He drew her hair through his fingers"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (n.) The leather strap by which the shield of a knight was slung across the shoulder or across the neck and shoulder.
- (v.t.) Any contrivance, especially one having a directing edge, surface or channel, for giving direction to the motion of anything, as water, an instrument or part of a machine or for directing the hand or eye, as of an operator.
- (v.t.) To lead or direct in a way; to conduct in a course or path; to pilot; as, to guide a traveler.
- (v.t.) A person who leads or directs another in his way or course, as in a strange land; one who exhibits points of interest to strangers; a conductor; also, that which guides; a guidebook.
- (v.t.) A blade or channel for directing the flow of water to the wheel buckets.
- (v.t.) A noncommissioned officer or soldier placed on the directiug flank of each subdivision of a column of troops or at the end of a line, to mark the pivots, formations, marches, and alignments in tactics.
- (v.t.) A grooved director for a probe or knife.
- (v.t.) One who or that which, directs another in his conduct or course of lifo; a director; a regulator.
- (v.t.) To regulate and manage; to direct; to order; to superintend the training or education of; to instruct and influence intellectually or morally; to train.
- (v.t.) A strip or device to direct the compositor's eye to the line of copy he is setting.
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