- (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 Subscribe
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
- Offer to buy, as of stocks and shares.
- usage: "The broker subscribed 500 shares"
- Mark with one's signature; write one's name (on. )
- usage: "She signed the letter and sent it off"; "Please sign here"
- synonyms: sign
- Adopt as a belief.
- usage: "I subscribe to your view on abortion"
- synonyms: support
- Pay (an amount of money) as a contribution to a charity or service, especially at regular intervals.
- usage: "I pledged $10 a month to my favorite radio station"
- synonyms: pledge
- Receive or obtain regularly.
- usage: "We take the Times every day"
- synonyms: subscribe to, take
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.i.) To enter one's name for a newspaper, a book, etc.
- (v.t.) To declare over one's signature; to publish.
- (v.t.) To attest by writing one's name beneath; as, officers subscribe their official acts, and secretaries and clerks subscribe copies or records.
- (v.i.) To sign one's name to a letter or other document.
- (v.i.) To give consent to something written, by signing one's name; hence, to assent; to agree.
- (v.i.) To set one's name to a paper in token of promise to give a certain sum.
- (v.t.) To sign with one's own hand; to give consent to, as something written or to bind one's self to the terms of, by writing one's name beneath; as, parties subscribe a covenant or contract; a man subscribes a bond.
- (v.t.) To sign away; to yield; to surrender.
- (v.t.) To write underneath, as one's name; to sign (one's name) to a document.
- (v.i.) To yield; to admit one's self to be inferior or in the wrong.
- (v.i.) To become surely; -- with for.
- (v.t.) To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount; as, each man subscribed ten dollars.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1) to give, pay, or pledge (a sum of money) as a contribution, investment, etc. 2) to append one's signature or mark to (a document), as in approval or attestation of its contents.