- (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 Hand
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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
- The (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.
- usage: "he had the hands of a surgeon"; "he extended his mitt"
- A hired laborer on a farm or ranch.
- usage: "the hired hand fixed the railing"; "a ranch hand"
- synonyms: hired hand, hired man
- Something written by hand.
- usage: "she recognized his handwriting"; "his hand was illegible"
- synonyms: handwriting, script
- Ability.
- usage: "he wanted to try his hand at singing"
- A position given by its location to the side of an object.
- usage: "objections were voiced on every hand"
- The cards held in a card game by a given player at any given time.
- usage: "I didn't hold a good hand all evening"; "he kept trying to see my hand"
- synonyms: deal
- One of two sides of an issue.
- usage: "on the one hand..., but on the other hand..."
- A rotating pointer on the face of a timepiece.
- usage: "the big hand counts the minutes"
- A unit of length equal to 4 inches; used in measuring horses.
- usage: "the horse stood 20 hands"
- A member of the crew of a ship.
- usage: "all hands on deck"
- A card player in a game of bridge.
- usage: "we need a 4th hand for bridge"
- synonyms: bridge player
- A round of applause to signify approval.
- usage: "give the little lady a great big hand"
- Terminal part of the forelimb in certain vertebrates (e. G. Apes or kangaroos)) "the kangaroo's forearms seem undeveloped but the powerful five-fingered hands are skilled at feinting and clouting- Springfield (Mass.. Union
- Physical assistance.
- usage: "give me a hand with the chores"
- synonyms: helping hand
verb
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- (n.) Power of performance; means of execution; ability; skill; dexterity.
- (v.t.) To pledge by the hand; to handfast.
- (n.) Personal possession; ownership; hence, control; direction; management; -- usually in the plural.
- (n.) A bundle of tobacco leaves tied together.
- (n.) A limb of certain animals, as the foot of a hawk or any one of the four extremities of a monkey.
- (n.) That which is or may be, held in a hand at once.
- (v.t.) To manage; as, I hand my oar.
- (n.) An agent; a servant or laborer; a workman, trained or competent for special service or duty; a performer more or less skillful; as, a deck hand; a farm hand; an old hand at speaking.
- (n.) Actual performance; deed; act; workmanship; agency; hence, manner of performance.
- (n.) Side; part; direction, either right or left.
- (v.t.) To lead, guide or assist with the hand; to conduct; as, to hand a lady into a carriage.
- (n.) Agency in transmission from one person to another; as, to buy at first hand, that is, from the producer or when new; at second hand, that is, when no longer in the producer's hand or when not new.
- (v.t.) To furl; -- said of a sail.
- (v.t.) To give, pass or transmit with the hand; as, he handed them the letter.
- (v.t.) To seize; to lay hands on.
- (n.) Handwriting; style of penmanship; as, a good, bad or running hand. Hence, a signature.
- (v.i.) To cooperate.
- (n.) A measure equal to a hand's breadth, -- four inches; a palm. Chiefly used in measuring the height of horses.
- (n.) Rate; price.
- (n.) That which resembles or to some extent performs the office of, a human hand.
- (n.) The quota of cards received from the dealer.
- (n.) The small part of a gunstock near the lock, which is grasped by the hand in taking aim.
- (n.) An index or pointer on a dial; as, the hour or minute hand of a clock.
- (n.) That part of the fore limb below the forearm or wrist in man and monkeys, and the corresponding part in many other animals; manus; paw. See Manus.
- (n.) A gambling game played by American Indians, consisting of guessing the whereabouts of bits of ivory or the like, which are passed rapidly from hand to hand.
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