- (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 Render
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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
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(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 substance similar to stucco but exclusively applied to masonry walls.
verb
- Cause to become.
- usage: "The shot rendered her immobile"
- Give something useful or necessary to.
- usage: "We provided the room with an electrical heater"
- Give an interpretation or rendition of.
- usage: "The pianist rendered the Beethoven sonata beautifully"
- synonyms: interpret
- Give or supply.
- usage: "The cow brings in 5 liters of milk"; "This year's crop yielded 1, 000 bushels of corn"; "The estate renders some revenue for the family"
- Pass down.
- usage: "render a verdict"; "deliver a judgment"
- Make over as a return.
- usage: "They had to render the estate"
- synonyms: submit
- Give back.
- usage: "render money"
- synonyms: return
- To surrender someone or something to another.
- usage: "the guard delivered the criminal to the police"; "render up the prisoners"; "render the town to the enemy"; "fork over the money"
- Show in, or as in, a picture.
- usage: "This scene depicts country life"; "the face of the child is rendered with much tenderness in this painting"
- Coat with plastic or cement.
- usage: "render the brick walls in the den"
- Bestow.
- usage: "give homage"; "render thanks"
- synonyms: give
- Restate (words) from one language into another language.
- usage: "I have to translate when my in-laws from Austria visit the U. S."; "Can you interpret the speech of the visiting dignitaries"; "She rendered the French poem into English"; "He translates for the U. N."
- Melt (fat or lard) in order to separate out impurities.
- usage: "try the yak butter"; "render fat in a casserole"
- synonyms: try
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- (v.t.) To give up; to yield; to surrender.
- (v.t.) Hence, to furnish; to contribute.
- (v.t.) To interpret; to set forth, represent or exhibit; as, an actor renders his part poorly; a singer renders a passage of music with great effect; a painter renders a scene in a felicitous manner.
- (v.t.) To inflict, as a retribution; to requite.
- (n.) One who rends.
- (v.t.) To cause to be or to become; as, to render a person more safe or more unsafe; to render a fortress secure.
- (v.t.) To translate from one language into another; as, to render Latin into English.
- (v.i.) To pass; to run; -- said of the passage of a rope through a block, eyelet, etc.; as, a rope renders well, that is, passes freely; also, to yield or give way.
- (v.t.) To furnish; to state; to deliver; as, to render an account; to render judgment.
- (n.) An account given; a statement.
- (v.i.) To give an account; to make explanation or confession.
- (v.t.) To try out or extract (oil, lard, tallow, etc.) from fatty animal substances; as, to render tallow.
- (n.) A surrender.
- (n.) A return; a payment of rent.
- (v.t.) To return; to pay back; to restore.
- (v.t.) To plaster, as a wall of masonry, without the use of lath.
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