- (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 Transport
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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.
- (v.) A convict transported or sentenced to exile.
- (v.) Transportation; carriage; conveyance.
- (v.t.) To carry or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish.
- (v.t.) To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.
- (v.) A vessel employed for transporting, especially for carrying soldiers, warlike stores or provisions, from one place to another or to convey convicts to their destination; -- called also transport ship, transport vessel.
- (v.) Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.
- (v.t.) To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul.
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noun
- Something that serves as a means of transportation.
- synonyms: conveyance
- An exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes.
- The commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials.
- synonyms: transportation, shipping
- A state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion."listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture- Charles Dickens
- synonyms: ecstasy, rapture, exaltation, raptus
- A mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder.
- synonyms: tape drive, tape transport
- The act of moving something from one location to another.
- synonyms: transportation, transfer, transferral, conveyance
verb
- Move something or somebody around; usually over long distances.
- Move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body.
- usage: "You must carry your camping gear"; "carry the suitcases to the car"; "This train is carrying nuclear waste"; "These pipes carry waste water into the river"
- synonyms: carry
- Hold spellbound.
- Transport commercially.
- Send from one person or place to another.
- usage: "transmit a message"
- synonyms: transmit, transfer, channel, channelize, channelise
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