- (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 Tip
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
- The extreme end of something; especially something pointed.
- A relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter.
- An indication of potential opportunity.
- usage: "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job"
- synonyms: lead, steer, confidential information, wind, hint
- A V shape.
- usage: "the cannibal's teeth were filed to sharp points"
- The top or extreme point of something (usually a mountain or hill. )
- usage: "the view from the peak was magnificent"; "they clambered to the tip of Monadnock"; "the region is a few molecules wide at the summit"
verb
- Cause to tilt.
- usage: "tip the screen upward"
- Mark with a tip.
- usage: "tip the arrow with the small stone"
- Give a tip or gratuity to in return for a service, beyond the compensation agreed on.
- usage: "Remember to tip the waiter"; "fee the steward"
- Cause to topple or tumble by pushing.
- To incline or bend from a vertical position.
- usage: "She leaned over the banister"
- Walk on one's toes.
- Strike lightly.
- usage: "He tapped me on the shoulder"
- synonyms: tap
- Give insider information or advise to.
- usage: "He tipped off the police about the terrorist plot"
- synonyms: tip off
- Remove the tip from.
- usage: "tip artichokes"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.i.) To fall on or incline to, one side.
- (n.) A gift; a douceur; a fee.
- (n.) A light touch or blow; a tap.
- (v.t.) To bestow a gift or douceur, upon; to give a present to; as, to tip a servant.
- (v.t.) To form a point upon; to cover the tip, top or end of; as, to tip anything with gold or silver.
- (v.t.) To lower one end of or to throw upon the end; to tilt; as, to tip a cask; to tip a cart.
- (n.) Rubbish thrown from a quarry.
- (n.) A thin, boarded brush made of camel's hair, used by gilders in lifting gold leaf.
- (n.) The point or extremity of anything; a pointed or somewhat sharply rounded end; the end; as, the tip of the finger; the tip of a spear.
- (v.t.) To strike slightly; to tap.
- (n.) A piece of stiffened lining pasted on the inside of a hat crown.
- (n.) An end piece or part; a piece, as a cap, nozzle, ferrule or point, applied to the extreme end of anything; as, a tip for an umbrella, a shoe, a gas burner, etc.
- (n.) A hint or secret intimation, as to the chances in a horse race or the like.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Tip is either masculine or feminine given name
- Name Meaning: Nickname for Thomas
- Name Origin: , American,
Information given by one trader to another, which is used in making buy or sell decisions but is not available to the general public.