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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