- (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 Proceed
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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.
verb
- Continue talking.
- usage: "I know it's hard" he continued, "but there is no choice"; "carry on-pretend we are not in the room"
- Move ahead; travel onward in time or space.
- usage: "We proceeded towards Washington"; "She continued in the direction of the hills"; "We are moving ahead in time now"
- synonyms: go forward, continue
- Follow a procedure or take a course.
- usage: "We should go farther in this matter"; "She went through a lot of trouble"; "go about the world in a certain manner"; "Messages must go through diplomatic channels"
- Follow a certain course.
- usage: "The inauguration went well"; "how did your interview go"
- synonyms: go
- Continue a certain state, condition, or activity.
- usage: "Keep on working"; "We continued to work into the night"; "Keep smiling"; "We went on working until well past midnight"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.i.) To begin and carry on a legal process.
- (v.i.) To be transacted; to take place; to occur.
- (v.i.) To have application or effect; to operate.
- (n.) See Proceeds.
- (v.i.) To move, pass or go forward or onward; to advance; to continue or renew motion begun; as, to proceed on a journey.
- (v.i.) To pass from one point, topic or stage, to another; as, to proceed with a story or argument.
- (v.i.) To issue or come forth as from a source or origin; to come from; as, light proceeds from the sun.
- (v.i.) To go on in an orderly or regulated manner; to begin and carry on a series of acts or measures; to act by method; to prosecute a design.
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