- (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 Submit
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
- Refer for judgment or consideration.
- usage: "The lawyers submitted the material to the court"
- synonyms: subject
- Put before.
- usage: "I submit to you that the accused is guilty"
- synonyms: state, put forward, posit
- Yield to the control of another.
- Hand over formally.
- synonyms: present
- Refer to another person for decision or judgment.
- usage: "She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues"
- Yield to another's wish or opinion.
- usage: "The government bowed to the military pressure"
- Accept or undergo, often unwillingly.
- usage: "We took a pay cut"
- synonyms: take
- Make an application as for a job or funding.
- usage: "We put in a grant to the NSF"
- synonyms: put in
- Make over as a return.
- usage: "They had to render the estate"
- synonyms: render
- Accept as inevitable.
- usage: "He resigned himself to his fate"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.t.) To leave or commit to the discretion or judgment of another or others; to refer; as, to submit a controversy to arbitrators; to submit a question to the court; -- often followed by a dependent proposition as the object.
- (v.t.) To yield, resign or surrender to power, will or authority; -- often with the reflexive pronoun.
- (v.i.) To yield one's person to the power of another; to give up resistance; to surrender.
- (v.i.) To yield one's opinion to the opinion of authority of another; to be subject; to acquiesce.
- (v.i.) To be submissive or resigned; to yield without murmuring.
- (v.t.) To put or place under.
- (v.t.) To let down; to lower.
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