Committed

Definition

commit /kǝ'mÇt/ v ( -tt- ) ၁။ က်ဴးလြန္သည္။ commit murder/suicide/theft. ၂။ (က) ~ sb to sth (ေဆး႐ံု၊ အက်ဥ္းေထာင္ သို႔) ပို႔သည္။ commit a patient to a psychiatric hospital ❍ commit a man to prison. (ခ) ~ sth to sth ေရးမွတ္သည္။ မွတ္သားသည္။ commit sth to paper/to writing (ie write sth down) ❍ commit a list to memory. ၃။ ~ sb/oneself (to sth/to doing sth) (ျပန္ျပင္၍မရေအာင္) ကတိလြန္ၿပီး ျဖစ္သည္။ ဆံုးျဖတ္ၿပီးျဖစ္သည္။ အာမခံၿပီးျဖစ္သည္။ I can't come on Sunday: I'm already committed (ie I have arranged to do sth else). ❍ commit oneself to a course of action ❍ Signing this form commits you to buying the goods. ❍ The company has committed funds to an advertising campaign. ❍ He has committed himself to support his brother's children. ၄။ ~ oneself (on sth) အေသအခ်ာ အခိုင္အမာေျပာသည္။ I asked her what she thought, but she refused to commit herself. Compare NON-COMMITTAL ၅။ ~ sb for sth (စစ္ေဆးရန္)အထက္႐ံုး သို႔ ပို႔သည္။ The magistrates committed him for trial at the Old Bailey. ❏ commitment n ၁။ [C] ~ (to sth/to do sth) ကတိေပး ၿပီးေသာ အလုပ္။ I will honour my existing commitments but am reluctant to take on any more work at present. ❍ a commitment to pay £100 to charity. ၂။ [U] ~ (to sth) ( approv ) (အလုပ္၌)ႏွစ္ျမႇဳပ္ထားျခင္း။ We're looking for someone with a real sense of commitment to the job. ၃။ [U] ~ (to sth) ပို႔သည္။ ေပးသည္။ the commitment of a patient to a mental hospital ❍ the commitment of funds to medicine. ❏ committal /kǝ'mÇtl/ n [U] (အထူးသျဖင့္) အက်ဥ္းေထာင္သို႔ ပို႔ျခင္း။ At the committal proceedings the police withdrew their case. ❏ committed adj ( usu approv ) ပီသေသာ။ စစ္စစ္။ a committed Christian/doctor/teacher/communist. Compare UNCOMMITTED

Examples

1. [commit a crime/an offence] : The study aims to find out what makes people commit crimes.
2. [commit murder/a robbery etc] : Conspiracy to commit murder
3. [commit adultery] : He had admitted to committing adultery.
4. [commit suicide] : Reports suggest that the singer committed suicide.
5. [commit someone to (doing) something] : The agreement commits them to a minimum number of performances per year.
6. [commit to (doing) something] : He would have to commit to spending several thousand pounds.
7. I do not want to commit to any particular date.
8. He’s not ready to commit.
9. [commit something to something] : They’ll have to commit more money to the project if it’s to succeed.
10. [commit someone to something] : The judge committed the men to prison for contempt of court.