submit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: səbmĭtʹ
ipa: /səbˈmɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
note: Indic
ipa: /sə(b)ˈmɪʈ/
homophone: summit
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Etymology: From Middle English submitten, borrowed from Latin submittere, infinitive of submittō (“place under, yield”), from sub (“under, from below, up”) + mitto (“to send”). Compare upsend.
Senses: examples: text: They will not submit to the destruction of their rights.
glosses: To yield or give way to another.
glosses: To yield (something) to another, as when defeated.
examples: text: I submit these plans for your approval.
text: 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.
ref: 1843, Thomas Macaulay, Sir James Mackintosh's History of the Revolution:
text: Determined to learn from Bouch's mistakes, they conducted a through ^([sic]) survey of the riverbed. Having learned what they needed to know, they submitted plans for a new double-track bridge by the end of 1880.
ref: 2020 September 23, Paul Bigland, “The tragic tale of the Tay Bridge disaster”, in RAIL, page 82:
text: The biology department at Texas Tech University – set in deeply conservative West Texas – asked faculty candidates in 2021 to submit statements on their commitment to DEI.
ref: 2023 February 15, Ashley Killough and Ed Lavandera, “Another education fight over DEI emerges, this time at a conservative campus in Texas”, in CNN:
text: Pursuant to 11 C.F.R. § 200.1 et seq., Attorney General of Texas Ken Paxton hereby submits this Petition for Rulemaking.
ref: 2024 October 21, “Petition for the Issuance and/or Amendment of Rules Regarding Contributions from Untraceable Electronic Payment Methods”, in Fox News, page 1:
text: The subcommittee, which is chaired by Ohio Republican Rep. Brad Wenstrup, a podiatrist, will hold a markup session for the report Wednesday before submitting it to the congressional record.
ref: 2024 December 2, Katherine Dillinger, “House Covid-19 panel releases final report criticizing public health response to the pandemic”, in CNN:
glosses: To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.
examples: text: [Skins] must be submitted to several washings, treadings, and stretchings, before they acquire the necessary pliancy.
ref: 1859, Victor Regnault, Elements of Chemistry:
glosses: To subject; to put through a process.
examples: text: [Ronda] Rousey, a former U.S. Olympian in Judo, caps off a perfect year in which she submitted Liz Carmouche in the first-ever UFC female fight and coached opposite [Miesha] Tate in "The Ultimate Fighter" reality series.
ref: 2013 December 28, Brett Okamoto, “Ronda Rousey wins with arm bar”, in ESPN, retrieved 06 Jan 2014:
text: It was also the first time Goldberg has been submitted, enhancing Reigns even more than he already has been over the last two years.
ref: 2022 February 19, Erik Beaston, “WWE Elimination Chamber 2022 Results: Winners, Grades, Reaction and Highlights”, in Bleacher Report, retrieved 22 Feb 2022:
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glosses: To win a fight against (an opponent) by submission.
examples: text: Sometimes the hill submits itself a while.
ref: 1662, John Dryden, Poem to the Lord Chancellor Hyde:
glosses: To let down; to lower.
examples: text: The bristled throat / Of the submitted sacrifice with ruthless steel he cut.
ref: 1611, George Chapman, Homer's Iliads:
glosses: To put or place under.
Derived terms: resubmit
resubmitter
submittable
submittal
submitter
Related terms: submission
submissive
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