- (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.
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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 set of data arranged in rows and columns.
- usage: "see table 1"
- synonyms: tabular array
- A piece of furniture having a smooth flat top that is usually supported by one or more vertical legs.
- usage: "it was a sturdy table"
- A piece of furniture with tableware for a meal laid out on it.
- usage: "I reserved a table at my favorite restaurant"
- Flat tableland with steep edges.
- usage: "the tribe was relatively safe on the mesa but they had to descend into the valley for water"
- synonyms: mesa
- A company of people assembled at a table for a meal or game.
- usage: "he entertained the whole table with his witty remarks"
- Food or meals in general.
- usage: "she sets a fine table"; "room and board"
- synonyms: board
verb
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- (n.) A thin, flat piece of wood, stone, metal or other material, on which anything is cut, traced, written or painted; a tablet.
- (n.) The games of backgammon and of draughts.
- (v.t.) To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the boltrope.
- (v.t.) To delineate, as on a table; to represent, as in a picture.
- (v.t.) To enter upon the docket; as, to table charges against some one.
- (n.) One of the two, external and internal, layers of compact bone, separated by diploe, in the walls of the cranium.
- (n.) The arrangement or disposition of the lines which appear on the inside of the hand.
- (n.) A plane surface, supposed to be transparent and perpendicular to the horizon; -- called also perspective plane.
- (n.) Any smooth, flat surface upon which an inscription, a drawing or the like, may be produced.
- (n.) A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab.
- (n.) Hence, in a great variety of applications: A condensed statement which may be comprehended by the eye in a single view; a methodical or systematic synopsis; the presentation of many items or particulars in one group; a scheme; a schedule.
- (n.) a memorandum book.
- (n.) A stringcourse which includes an offset; especially, a band of stone or the like, set where an offset is required, so as to make it decorative. See Water table.
- (n.) The upper flat surface of a diamond or other precious stone, the sides of which are cut in angles.
- (v.t.) In parliamentary usage, to lay on the table; to postpone, by a formal vote, the consideration of (a bill, motion or the like) till called for or indefinitely.
- (n.) An article of furniture, consisting of a flat slab, board or the like, having a smooth surface, fixed horizontally on legs, and used for a great variety of purposes, as in eating, writing or working.
- (n.) One of the divisions of a backgammon board; as, to play into the right-hand table.
- (n.) The board on the opposite sides of which backgammon and draughts are played.
- (n.) The part of a machine tool on which the work rests and is fastened.
- (v.i.) To live at the table of another; to board; to eat.
- (n.) A view of the contents of a work; a statement of the principal topics discussed; an index; a syllabus; a synopsis; as, a table of contents.
- (n.) A list of substances and their properties; especially, a list of the elementary substances with their atomic weights, densities, symbols, etc.
- (v.t.) To form into a table or catalogue; to tabulate; as, to table fines.
- (v.t.) To lay or place on a table, as money.
- (v.t.) To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf.
- (n.) The company assembled round a table.
- (n.) A circular plate of crown glass.
- (n.) Any collection and arrangement in a condensed form of many particulars or values, for ready reference, as of weights, measures, currency, specific gravities, etc.; also, a series of numbers following some law, and expressing particular values corresponding to certain other numbers on which they depend, and by means of which they are taken out for use in computations; as, tables of logarithms, sines, tangents, squares, cubes, etc.; annuity tables; interest tables; astronomical tables, etc.
- (n.) Hence, food placed on a table to be partaken of; fare; entertainment; as, to set a good table.
- (v.t.) To supply with food; to feed.
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