- (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 Proposition
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
- Logic) a statement that affirms or denies something and is either true or false. (
- A proposal offered for acceptance or rejection.
- usage: "it was a suggestion we couldn't refuse"
- synonyms: suggestion, proffer
- An offer for a private bargain (especially a request for sexual favors. )
- The act of making a proposal.
- usage: "they listened to her proposal"
- synonyms: proposal
- A task to be dealt with.
- usage: "securing adequate funding is a time-consuming proposition"
verb
- Suggest sex to.
- usage: "She was propositioned by a stranger at the party"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (n.) A statement in terms of a truth to be demonstrated or of an operation to be performed.
- (n.) A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; creed; as, the propositions of Wyclif and Huss.
- (n.) That which is proposed; that which is offered, as for consideration, acceptance or adoption; a proposal; as, the enemy made propositions of peace; his proposition was not accepted.
- (n.) A complete sentence or part of a sentence consisting of a subject and predicate united by a copula; a thought expressed or propounded in language; a from of speech in which a predicate is affirmed or denied of a subject; as, snow is white.
- (n.) That which is offered or affirmed as the subject of the discourse; anything stated or affirmed for discussion or illustration.
- (n.) The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.
- (n.) The act of setting or placing before; the act of offering.
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