- (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 Print
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
- The text appearing in a book, newspaper, or other printed publication.
- usage: "I want to see it in print"
- A picture or design printed from an engraving.
- A visible indication made on a surface.
- usage: "some previous reader had covered the pages with dozens of marks"; "paw prints were everywhere"
- synonyms: mark
- Availability in printed form.
- usage: "we've got to get that story into print"; "his book is no longer in print"
- A copy of a movie on film (especially a particular version of it. )
- A fabric with a dyed pattern pressed onto it (usually by engraved rollers. )
- A printed picture produced from a photographic negative.
- synonyms: photographic print
verb
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (n.) A printed cloth; a fabric figured by stamping, especially calico or cotton cloth.
- (v.t.) To stamp or impress with colored figures or patterns; as, to print calico.
- (n.) Printed letters; the impression taken from type, as to excellence, form, size, etc.; as, small print; large print; this line is in print.
- (v.i.) To publish a book or an article.
- (n.) That which is produced by printing.
- (v.t.) To strike off an impression or impressions of, from type or from stereotype, electrotype or engraved plates or the like; in a wider sense, to do the typesetting, presswork, etc., of (a book or other publication); as, to print books, newspapers, pictures; to print an edition of a book.
- (n.) A stamp or die for molding or impressing an ornamental design upon an object; as, a butter print.
- (n.) A core print. See under Core.
- (n.) A printed publication, more especially a newspaper or other periodical.
- (n.) That which receives an impression, as from a stamp or mold; as, a print of butter.
- (v.t.) To take (a copy, a positive picture, etc.), from a negative, a transparent drawing or the like, by the action of light upon a sensitized surface.
- (v.i.) To use or practice the art of typography; to take impressions of letters, figures or electrotypes, engraved plates or the like.
- (v.t.) To fix or impress, as a stamp, mark, character, idea, etc., into or upon something.
- (n.) A mark made by impression; a line, character, figure or indentation, made by the pressure of one thing on another; as, the print of teeth or nails in flesh; the print of the foot in sand or snow.
- (n.) A photographic copy or positive picture, on prepared paper, as from a negative or from a drawing on transparent paper.
- (n.) An impression taken from anything, as from an engraved plate.
- (v.t.) To stamp something in or upon; to make an impression or mark upon by pressure or as by pressure.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Print is used in the context of general equities. As a verb execute a trade, evidenced by its printing on the ticker tape. As a noun, a trade.