- (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 Ice
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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
- Water frozen in the solid state.
- usage: "Americans like ice in their drinks"
- synonyms: water ice
- The frozen part of a body of water.
- Diamonds.
- usage: "look at the ice on that dame"
- synonyms: sparkler
- A flavored sugar topping used to coat and decorate cakes.
- A frozen dessert with fruit flavoring (especially one containing no milk.
- synonyms: frappe
- An amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant.
- synonyms: methamphetamine, methamphetamine hydrochloride, Methedrine, meth, deoxyephedrine, chalk, chicken feed, crank, glass, shabu, trash
- A heat engine in which combustion occurs inside the engine rather than in a separate furnace; heat expands a gas that either moves a piston or turns a gas turbine.
- synonyms: internal-combustion engine
- A rink with a floor of ice for ice hockey or ice skating.
- usage: "the crowd applauded when she skated out onto the ice"
- synonyms: ice rink, ice-skating rink
verb
- Decorate with frosting.
- usage: "frost a cake"
- synonyms: frost
- Cause to become ice or icy.
- usage: "an iced summer drink"
- Put ice on or put on ice.
- usage: "Ice your sprained limbs"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (n.) Concreted sugar.
- (n.) Water or other fluid frozen or reduced to the solid state by cold; frozen water. It is a white or transparent colorless substance, crystalline, brittle, and viscoidal. Its specific gravity (0.92, that of water at 4¡ C. being 1.0) being less than that of water, ice floats.
- (v.t.) To cover with ice; to convert into ice or into something resembling ice.
- (v.t.) To cover with icing or frosting made of sugar and milk or white of egg; to frost, as cakes, tarts, etc.
- (v.t.) To chill or cool, as with ice; to freeze.
- (n.) Water, cream, custard, etc., sweetened, flavored, and artificially frozen.
- (n.) Any substance having the appearance of ice; as, camphor ice.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
(Military) ICE stands for Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.