- (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 Propose
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.
verb
- Make a proposal, declare a plan for something.
- usage: "the senator proposed to abolish the sales tax"
- Present for consideration, examination, criticism, etc..
- usage: "He proposed a new plan for dealing with terrorism"; "She proposed a new theory of relativity"
- synonyms: project
- Propose or intend.
- usage: "I aim to arrive at noon"
- Put forward; nominate for appointment to an office or for an honor or position.
- usage: "The President nominated her as head of the Civil Rights Commission"
- synonyms: nominate
- Ask (someone) to marry you.
- usage: "he popped the question on Sunday night"; "she proposed marriage to the man she had known for only two months"; "The old bachelor finally declared himself to the young woman"
- synonyms: declare oneself, offer, pop the question
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (n.) Talk; discourse.
- (v.i.) To form or declare a purpose or intention; to lay a scheme; to design; as, man proposes, but God disposes.
- (v.i.) To speak; to converse.
- (v.) To offer for consideration, discussion, acceptance or adoption; as, to propose terms of peace; to propose a question for discussion; to propose an alliance; to propose a person for office.
- (v.i.) To offer one's self in marriage.
- (v.) To set before one's self or others as a purpose formed; hence, to purpose; to intend.
- (v.) To set forth.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary