- (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 Pen
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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
- A writing implement with a point from which ink flows.
- An enclosure for confining livestock.
- A portable enclosure in which babies may be left to play.
- synonyms: playpen
- A correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes.
- synonyms: penitentiary
- Female swan.
verb
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (n.) A wing.
- (n.) A small inclosure; as, a pen for sheep or for pigs.
- (n.) A female swan.
- (n.) An instrument used for writing with ink, formerly made of a reed or of the quill of a goose or other bird, but now also of other materials, as of steel, gold, etc. Also, originally, a stylus or other instrument for scratching or graving.
- (n.) Fig.: A writer or his style; as, he has a sharp pen.
- (v.t.) To write; to compose and commit to paper; to indite; to compose; as, to pen a sonnet.
- (n.) The internal shell of a squid.
- (n.&v.) To shut up, as in a pen or cage; to confine in a small inclosure or narrow space; to coop up or shut in; to inclose.
- (n.) A feather.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Pen is a feminine given name
PEN is the ISO 4217 currency code for the Peruvian Nuevo Sol.