- (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 Mind
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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
- That which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason.
- usage: "his mind wandered"; "I couldn't get his words out of my head"
- Recall or remembrance.
- usage: "it came to mind"
- An opinion formed by judging something.
- usage: "he was reluctant to make his judgment known"; "she changed her mind"
- An important intellectual.
- usage: "the great minds of the 17th century"
- synonyms: thinker, creative thinker
- Attention.
- usage: "don't pay him any mind"
- Your intention; what you intend to do.
- usage: "he had in mind to see his old teacher"; "the idea of the game is to capture all the pieces"
- synonyms: idea
- Knowledge and intellectual ability.
- usage: "he reads to improve his mind"; "he has a keen intellect"
- synonyms: intellect
verb
- Be offended or bothered by; take offense with, be bothered by.
- usage: "I don't mind your behavior"
- Be concerned with or about something or somebody.
- Be in charge of or deal with.
- usage: "She takes care of all the necessary arrangements"
- synonyms: take care
- Pay close attention to; give heed to.
- usage: "Heed the advice of the old men"
- Be on one's guard; be cautious or wary about; be alert to.
- usage: "Beware of telephone salesmen"
- synonyms: beware
- Keep in mind.
- synonyms: bear in mind
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.) Choice; inclination; liking; intent; will.
- (v.) The intellectual or rational faculty in man; the understanding; the intellect; the power that conceives, judges or reasons; also, the entire spiritual nature; the soul; -- often in distinction from the body.
- (n.) To obey; as, to mind parents; the dog minds his master.
- (v.) Courage; spirit.
- (n.) To have in mind; to purpose.
- (v.) The state, at any given time, of the faculties of thinking, willing, choosing, and the like; psychical activity or state; as: (a) Opinion; judgment; belief.
- (n.) To occupy one's self with; to employ one's self about; to attend to; as, to mind one's business.
- (v.) Memory; remembrance; recollection; as, to have or keep in mind, to call to mind, to put in mind, etc.
- (v.i.) To give attention or heed; to obey; as, the dog minds well.
- (n.) To put in mind; to remind.
- (n.) To fix the mind or thoughts on; to regard with attention; to treat as of consequence; to consider; to heed; to mark; to note.
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