- (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 Write
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
- Produce a literary work.
- usage: "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels"
- Communicate or express by writing.
- usage: "Please write to me every week"
- Have (one's written work) issued for publication.
- usage: "How many books did Georges Simenon write"; "She published 25 books during her long career"
- synonyms: publish
- Communicate (with) in writing.
- usage: "Write her soon, please"
- synonyms: drop a line
- Communicate by letter.
- usage: "He wrote that he would be coming soon"
- Write music.
- usage: "Beethoven composed nine symphonies"
- synonyms: compose
- Mark or trace on a surface.
- usage: "The artist wrote Chinese characters on a big piece of white paper"; "Russian is written with the Cyrillic alphabet"
- Record data on a computer.
- usage: "boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk"
- synonyms: save
- Write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word. )
- usage: "He spelled the word wrong in this letter"
- synonyms: spell
- Create code, write a computer program.
- usage: "She writes code faster than anybody else"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.t.) Hence, to compose or produce, as an author.
- (v.i.) To form characters, letters or figures, as representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by written signs.
- (v.i.) To frame or combine ideas, and express them in written words; to play the author; to recite or relate in books; to compose.
- (v.t.) To set down for reading; to express in legible or intelligible characters; to inscribe; as, to write a deed; to write a bill of divorcement; hence, specifically, to set down in an epistle; to communicate by letter.
- (v.t.) To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as, to write the characters called letters; to write figures.
- (v.i.) To compose or send letters.
- (v.t.) To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; -- often used reflexively.
- (v.t.) To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave; as, truth written on the heart.
- (v.i.) To be regularly employed or occupied in writing, copying or accounting; to act as clerk or amanuensis; as, he writes in one of the public offices.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Sell an option. Applies to derivative products.