Committed vs. Reliable — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Committed and Reliable
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Committed
Pledged or bound to a certain course or policy; dedicated
A committed environmentalist
Reliable
Capable of being relied on; dependable
A reliable assistant.
A reliable car.
Committed
In or denoting a long-term emotional relationship
A committed relationship
Esther has a committed boyfriend
Reliable
Yielding the same or compatible results in different clinical experiments or statistical trials.
Committed
To do, perform, or perpetrate
Commit a murder.
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Reliable
Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependence, reliance or trust; dependable, trustworthy
Committed
To put in trust or charge; entrust
Commit oneself to the care of a doctor.
Commit responsibilities to an assistant.
Reliable
Such that either a sent packet will reach its destination, even if it requires retransmission, or the sender will be told that it didn't
Committed
To consign for future use or for preservation
We must commit the necessary funds for the project.
Reliable
Something or someone reliable or dependable
The old reliables
Committed
To place officially in confinement or custody, as in a mental health facility.
Reliable
Suitable or fit to be relied on; worthy of dependance or reliance; trustworthy.
The best means, and most reliable pledge, of a higher object.
According to General Livingston's humorous account, his own village of Elizabethtown was not much more reliable, being peopled in those agitated times by "unknown, unrecommended strangers, guilty-looking Tories, and very knavish Whigs."
Committed
To put into a place to be disposed of or kept safe
Committed the manuscript to the flames.
Reliable
Worthy of reliance or trust;
A reliable source of information
A dependable worker
Committed
To make known the views of (oneself) on an issue
I never commit myself on such issues.
Reliable
Conforming to fact and therefore worthy of belief;
An authentic account by an eyewitness
Reliable information
Committed
To bind, obligate, or devote, as by a pledge
They were committed to follow orders. She committed herself to her art.
Reliable
Worthy of being depended on;
A dependable worker
An honest working stiff
A reliable source of information
He was true to his word
I would be true for there are those who trust me
Committed
To refer (a legislative bill, for example) to a committee.
Committed
To pledge, obligate, or devote one's own self
Felt that he was too young to commit fully to marriage.
Committed
Simple past tense and past participle of commit
Committed
Obligated or locked in (often, but not necessarily, by a pledge) to some course of action.
Committed
Showing commitment.
Committed
Associated in an exclusive (but not necessarily permanent) sexual relationship.
Committed
(rhetoric) Required by logic to endorse the conclusion of an argument.
Committed
Bound or obligated, as under a pledge to a particular cause, action, or attitude. Opposite of uncommitted.
Committed
Associated in an exclusive sexual relationship; also called attached. Opposite of unattached.
Committed
Consigned involuntarily to custody, as in a prison or mental institution.
Committed
Bound or obligated, as under a pledge to a particular cause, action, or attitude;
Committed church members
A committed Marxist
Committed
Associated in an exclusive sexual relationship
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