- (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 Will
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 capability of conscious choice and decision and intention."the exercise of their volition we construe as revolt- George Meredith
- synonyms: volition
- A fixed and persistent intent or purpose.
- usage: "where there's a will there's a way"
- A legal document declaring a person's wishes regarding the disposal of their property when they die.
- synonyms: testament
verb
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (adv.) As an auxiliary, will is used to denote futurity dependent on the verb. Thus, in first person, "I will" denotes willingness, consent, promise; and when "will" is emphasized, it denotes determination or fixed purpose; as, I will go if you wish; I will go at all hazards. In the second and third persons, the idea of distinct volition, wish or purpose is evanescent, and simple certainty is appropriately expressed; as, "You will go," or "He will go," describes a future event as a fact only. To emphasize will denotes (according to the tone or context) certain futurity or fixed determination.
- (n.) To enjoin or command, as that which is determined by an act of volition; to direct; to order.
- (v.) Strong wish or inclination; desire; purpose.
- (n.) To give or direct the disposal of by testament; to bequeath; to devise; as, to will one's estate to a child; also, to order or direct by testament; as, he willed that his nephew should have his watch.
- (v.) That which is strongly wished or desired.
- (v.) Arbitrary disposal; power to control, dispose or determine.
- (n.) To form a distinct volition of; to determine by an act of choice; to ordain; to decree.
- (v.i.) To exercise an act of volition; to choose; to decide; to determine; to decree.
- (adv.) To wish; to desire; to incline to have.
- (v.) The choice or determination of one who has authority; a decree; a command; discretionary pleasure.
- (v.) The choice which is made; a determination or preference which results from the act or exercise of the power of choice; a volition.
- (v.) The legal declaration of a person's mind as to the manner in which he would have his property or estate disposed of after his death; the written instrument, legally executed, by which a man makes disposition of his estate, to take effect after his death; testament; devise. See the Note under Testament, 1.
- (v.i.) To be willing; to be inclined or disposed; to be pleased; to wish; to desire.
- (v.) The power of choosing; the faculty or endowment of the soul by which it is capable of choosing; the faculty or power of the mind by which we decide to do or not to do; the power or faculty of preferring or selecting one of two or more objects.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Will is a will is a legal document you use to transfer assets you have accumulated during your lifetime to the people and institutions you want to have them after your death. The will also names an executor-the person or people who will carry out your wishes. You can leave those assets directly, or you can use your will to establish one or more trusts to receive the assets and distribute them at some point in the future. The danger of dying without a will is that a court in the state where you live will decide what happens to your assets. Their decision may not be what you would have chosen.