- (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 Plunk
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 hollow twanging sound.
- Baseball) hitting a baseball so that it drops suddenly.
- synonyms: plunker
verb
- Make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground.
- Set (something or oneself) down with or as if with a noise.
- usage: "He planked the money on the table"; "He planked himself into the sofa"
- synonyms: plank, flump, plonk, plop, plump down, plunk down, plump
- Drop steeply.
- usage: "the stock market plunged"
- Pull lightly but sharply with a plucking motion.
- usage: "he plucked the strings of his mandolin"
adverb
- With a short hollow thud.
- usage: "plop came the ball down to the corner of the green"
- synonyms: plop
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (n.) Act or sound of plunking.
- (v.t.) To throw, push, drive heavily, plumply or suddenly; as, to plunk down a dollar; also, to hit or strike.
- (n.) A dollar.
- (n.) A large sum of money.
- (v.i.) To make a quick, hollow, metallic or harsh sound, as by pulling hard on a taut string and quickly releasing it; of a raven, to croak.
- (v.t.) To be a truant from (school).
- (v.i.) To play truant or "hooky".
- (v.t.) To pluck and release quickly (a musical string); to twang.
- (v.i.) To drop or sink down suddenly or heavily; to plump.
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