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Commit vs. Submit — What's the Difference?

Commit vs. Submit — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Commit and Submit

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Commit

To do, perform, or perpetrate
Commit a murder.

Submit

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Commit

To put in trust or charge; entrust
Commit oneself to the care of a doctor.
Commit responsibilities to an assistant.

Submit

To yield or surrender (oneself) to the will or authority of another.

Commit

To consign for future use or for preservation
We must commit the necessary funds for the project.
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Submit

To subject to a condition or process
Submit a tissue sample to testing.

Commit

To place officially in confinement or custody, as in a mental health facility.

Submit

To present (something) to the consideration or judgment of another
We submitted our ideas to our supervisor.

Commit

To put into a place to be disposed of or kept safe
Committed the manuscript to the flames.

Submit

To offer as a proposition or contention
I submit that the terms are entirely unreasonable.

Commit

To make known the views of (oneself) on an issue
I never commit myself on such issues.

Submit

To accept or give in to the authority, power, or will of another.

Commit

To bind, obligate, or devote, as by a pledge
They were committed to follow orders. She committed herself to her art.

Submit

To allow oneself to be subjected to something
Submit to an interview.
Submit to drug testing.

Commit

To refer (a legislative bill, for example) to a committee.

Submit

(intransitive) To yield or give way to another.
They will not submit to the destruction of their rights.

Commit

To pledge, obligate, or devote one's own self
Felt that he was too young to commit fully to marriage.

Submit

(transitive) To yield (something) to another, as when defeated.

Commit

(transitive) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.

Submit

(ambitransitive) To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.
I submit these plans for your approval.

Commit

(transitive) To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.

Submit

(transitive) To subject; to put through a process.

Commit

(transitive) To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.
Tony should be committed to a nuthouse!

Submit

To win a fight against (an opponent) by submission.

Commit

(transitive) To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
To commit murder
To commit a series of heinous crimes

Submit

To let down; to lower.

Commit

(ambitransitive) To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without oneself etc.
To commit oneself to a certain action
To commit to a relationship

Submit

To put or place under.

Commit

To make a set of changes permanent.

Submit

To let down; to lower.
Sometimes the hill submits itself a while.

Commit

To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.

Submit

To put or place under.
The bristled throatOf the submitted sacrifice with ruthless steel he cut.

Commit

To enter into a contest; to match; often followed by with.

Submit

To yield, resign, or surrender to power, will, or authority; - often with the reflexive pronoun.
Ye ben submitted through your free assent.
The angel of the Lord said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.
Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands.

Commit

To confound.

Submit

To leave or commit to the discretion or judgment of another or others; to refer; as, to submit a controversy to arbitrators; to submit a question to the court; - often followed by a dependent proposition as the object.
Whether the condition of the clergy be able to bear a heavy burden, is submitted to the house.
We submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not be justified in calling Galileo and Napier blockheads because they never heard of the differential calculus.

Commit

To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.

Submit

To yield one's person to the power of another; to give up resistance; to surrender.
The revolted provinces presently submitted.

Commit

To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.

Submit

To yield one's opinion to the opinion of authority of another; to be subject; to acquiesce.
To thy husband's willThine shall submit.

Commit

The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction), making it a permanent change; such a change.

Submit

To be submissive or resigned; to yield without murmuring.
Our religion requires from us . . . to submit to pain, disgrace, and even death.

Commit

(programming) The submission of source code or other material to a source control repository.

Submit

Refer for judgment or consideration;
She submitted a proposal to the agency

Commit

To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; - used with to, unto.
Commit thy way unto the Lord.
Bid him farewell, commit him to the grave.

Submit

Put before;
I submit to you that the accused is guilty

Commit

To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
These two were committed.

Submit

Yield to the control of another

Commit

To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Submit

Hand over formally

Commit

To join for a contest; to match; - followed by with.

Submit

Refer to another person for decision or judgment;
She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues

Commit

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.
You might have satisfied every duty of political friendship, without commiting the honor of your sovereign.
Any sudden assent to the proposal . . . might possibly be considered as committing the faith of the United States.

Submit

Submit or yield to another's wish or opinion;
The government bowed to the military pressure

Commit

To confound.
Committing short and long [quantities].

Submit

Accept or undergo, often unwillingly;
We took a pay cut

Commit

To sin; esp., to be incontinent.
Commit not with man's sworn spouse.

Submit

Make an application as for a job or funding;
We put in a grant to the NSF

Commit

Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation;
Perpetrate a crime
Pull a bank robbery

Submit

Make over as a return;
They had to render the estate

Commit

Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause;
She committed herself to the work of God
Give one's talents to a good cause
Consecrate your life to the church

Submit

Accept as inevitable;
He resigned himself to his fate

Commit

Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution;
After the second episode, she had to be committed
He was committed to prison

Commit

Confer a trust upon;
The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret
I commit my soul to God

Commit

Make an investment;
Put money into bonds

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