Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To yield or surrender (oneself) to the will or authority of another.
- v. To subject to a condition or process.
- v. To commit (something) to the consideration or judgment of another. See Synonyms at propose.
- v. To offer as a proposition or contention: I submit that the terms are entirely unreasonable.
- v. To give in to the authority, power, or desires of another. See Synonyms at yield.
- v. To allow oneself to be subjected to something.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To put or place under or down.
- To let down; cause to sink; lower.
- To yield; surrender to the power, will, or authority of another; subject: often used reflexively.
- To refer to the discretion or judgment of another; refer: as, to submit a controversy to arbitrators; to submit a question to the court.
- To propose; declare as one's opinion.
- To moderate; restrain; soften.
- To yield one's self, physically or morally, to any power or authority; give up resistance; surrender.
- To be subject; acquiesce in the authority of another; yield without opposition.
- To maintain; declare: usually in formally respectful expression of a decided opinion: as, “That, I submit, sir, is not the case.” Synonyms and To succumb, comply, bow.
Wiktionary
- v. intransitive To yield or give way to another.
- v. transitive or (intransitive) To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To let down; to lower.
- v. To put or place under.
- v. To yield, resign, or surrender to power, will, or authority; -- often with the reflexive pronoun.
- v. To leave or commit to the discretion or judgment of another or others; to refer; ; -- often followed by a dependent proposition as the object.
- v. To yield one's person to the power of another; to give up resistance; to surrender.
- v. To yield one's opinion to the opinion of authority of another; to be subject; to acquiesce.
- v. To be submissive or resigned; to yield without murmuring.
WordNet 3.0
- v. yield to another's wish or opinion
- v. accept or undergo, often unwillingly
- v. make an application as for a job or funding
- v. accept as inevitable
- v. make over as a return
- v. refer for judgment or consideration
- v. put before
- v. yield to the control of another
- v. refer to another person for decision or judgment
- v. hand over formally
Etymologies
- From Middle English submitten, from Latin submittō ("place under, yield"), from sub ("under, from below, up") + mitto ("to send"). Compare upsend. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English submitten, from Latin submittere, to set under : sub-, sub- + mittere, to cause to go. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“She could submit, she must _submit: _ could she accept?”
“The OBLIGATION to submit is not from individual RIGHT to consent or not to consent to government, -- but the OBLIGATION _to submit_ is directly from God.”
“Ah well, I'll simply have to be sure the story I submit is one I won't mind having my rights forfeited.”
“In that sort of pragmatism, paying to submit is a good reason to give a potential market a pass.”
“That I would submit is not possible, at least for NASA, and is not practical, for the US Government.”
“The aspect of submission foresees a relationship of union, because he to whom we submit is Love.”
“As well, the reason we must ask people grant us license for the photo they submit is so that we can post those photos on our Facebook page, use them for print ads in our comics (some of which have already started running), and for graphics at places like San Diego Comic-Con.”
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“And that, I submit, is one of the basic reasons why there will never be a tax system considered fair by those across all income levels of a society.”
“That, I would submit, is what ensures accountability of the individual Representatives and Senators to their constituents.”
“I think after than finishing that first work, doing the first submit is the hardest part of writing (third being dealing with the first rejection).”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘submit’.
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JURI - patent law
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EN - academic vocabulary
Use these and get promoted
abandon, abandonment, abnormally, abstract, abstraction, abstractly, abstracts, academia, academic, academically, academics, academies and 3119 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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Words Associated With Jesus
Words that indentify Jesus and His Salvation to those who seek Him.
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The Buzz
The bang, the cannonade,
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EN - newSPEAK
Buzzwords of our time
actionable, administrivia, advermation, agreeance, backbone provider, back-sourcing, baked in, bandwidth, barn raising, Barneyware, belly-buttons, Below Zeros and 1078 more...
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webdev
random webdev lingo used primarily in computer programming.
( open list, randomness, technical jargon, geek speak )
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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GRE
predilection, explicit, appeal, supplication, appealing, enchanting, ovation, pertinent, apropos, opportunely, applicable, germane and 381 more...
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SCIE - publications
The vocabulary of scientific paper submission
italicise, reference, ISBN, square bracket, running head, printing process, peer review, ASL, retrievable, lexical, publishable, et alia and 188 more...
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sort of sexy
pressure, press, urgency, squeezing, influence, compel, push, tease, thrust, full, drive, urge on and 99 more...
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reginaterra's Words
purl, blow, squish, andean, generality, adaptation, lush, pack, filter, acquiesce, abstraction, sweet and 508 more...
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franky's Words
formitastic, human resources, cocktail, gravatar, tequila, twitter, moloko, gmail, beeb, mp3, cover art, thumbnail and 184 more...
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newGRE
mostly from magoosh
imbue, verge on, nonchalant, deliberate, timorous, futile, provisional, dissect, checked, tinged, alluring, visionary and 1046 more...
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NTDW1
template, modal, sublingual, tandem, polycentric, septuagenarian, token, irrevocable, denotive, augural, aberrant, phlebotomy and 1188 more...
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