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SUBMIT

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Irregular inflected forms: submitted    , submitting   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Accept or undergo, often unwillingly

Example:

We took a pay cut

Synonyms:

submit; take

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "submit" is one way to...):

undergo (pass through)

Verb group:

take (experience or feel or submit to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "submit"):

test (undergo a test)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

submission (the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Accept as inevitable

Example:

He resigned himself to his fate

Synonyms:

reconcile; resign; submit

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "submit" is one way to...):

accept (consider or hold as true)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody PP

Sense 3

Meaning:

Put before

Example:

I submit to you that the accused is guilty

Synonyms:

posit; put forward; state; submit

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "submit" is one way to...):

advise; propose; suggest (make a proposal, declare a plan for something)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Sentence example:

They submit that there was a traffic accident

Derivation:

submission ((law) a contention presented by a lawyer to a judge or jury as part of the case he is arguing)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Yield to another's wish or opinion

Example:

The government bowed to the military pressure

Synonyms:

accede; bow; defer; give in; submit

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "submit" is one way to...):

buckle under; give in; knuckle under; succumb; yield (consent reluctantly)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s to somebody

Derivation:

submission (the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another)

submission (the condition of having submitted to control by someone or something else)

submissive (inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination)

submitter (someone who yields to the will of another person or force)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Refer for judgment or consideration

Example:

The lawyers submitted the material to the court

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "submit" is one way to...):

refer (send or direct for treatment, information, or a decision)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "submit"):

give (submit for consideration, judgment, or use)

return (submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority)

pass on; relegate; submit (refer to another person for decision or judgment)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Derivation:

submission (something (manuscripts or architectural plans and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.) submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition))

Sense 6

Meaning:

Make an application as for a job or funding

Example:

We put in a grant to the NSF

Synonyms:

put in; submit

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "submit" is one way to...):

apply (ask (for something))

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

submitter (someone who submits something (as an application for a job or a manuscript for publication etc.) for the judgment of others)

Sense 7

Meaning:

Yield to the control of another

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

"Submit" entails doing...:

give up; surrender (give up or agree to forgo to the power or possession of another)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "submit"):

subject (make accountable for)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

submission (the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another)

submission (the condition of having submitted to control by someone or something else)

submissive (inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination)

submissive (abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant)

submitter (someone who yields to the will of another person or force)

Sense 8

Meaning:

Hand over formally

Synonyms:

present; submit

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "submit" is one way to...):

give (transfer possession of something concrete or abstract to somebody)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "submit"):

bring in (submit (a verdict) to a court)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
Somebody ----s somebody with something

Sense 9

Meaning:

Make over as a return

Example:

They had to render the estate

Synonyms:

render; submit

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "submit" is one way to...):

gift; give; present (give as a present; make a gift of)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Sense 10

Meaning:

Refer to another person for decision or judgment

Example:

She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues

Synonyms:

pass on; relegate; submit

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "submit" is one way to...):

submit (refer for judgment or consideration)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something to somebody

Credits

 Context examples: 

The date (and time) on which the adverse event was updated after it had been submitted.

(Adverse Event Post Report Update Date, NCI Thesaurus)

It was a reference to the future, which Anne, after a little observation, felt she must submit to.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I thought, however, that before taking the final step I should like to submit the whole matter to your consideration.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We're willing to submit, if we can come to terms, and no bones about it.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

And now I made a very careful examination of the corner of paper which the Inspector had submitted to us.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These are submitted in addition to the data tabulation datasets.

(Analysis Dataset Domain, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

“I must submit to the degradation of an arrest.”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I can never submit to do that—yet how are we to get on?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I fear to trust those women, even if they would have courage to submit.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I have not been used to submit to any person's whims.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)