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submit
[ suhb-mit ]
verb (used with object)
- to give over or yield to the power or authority of another (often used reflexively).
Synonyms: , , , ,
Antonyms:
- to subject to some kind of treatment or influence.
- to present for the approval, consideration, or decision of another or others:
to submit a plan;
to submit an application.
- to state or urge with deference; suggest or propose (usually followed by a clause):
I submit that full proof should be required.
verb (used without object)
- to yield oneself to the power or authority of another:
to submit to a conqueror.
- to allow oneself to be subjected to some kind of treatment:
to submit to chemotherapy.
- to defer to another's judgment, opinion, decision, etc.:
I submit to your superior judgment.
submit
/ əˈɪ /
verb
- often foll by to to yield (oneself), as to the will of another person, a superior force, etc
- foll by to to subject or be voluntarily subjected (to analysis, treatment, etc)
- troften foll byto to refer (something to someone) for judgment or consideration
to submit a claim
- tr; may take a clause as object to state, contend, or propose deferentially
- introften foll byto to defer or accede (to the decision, opinion, etc, of another)
Derived Forms
- ܲˈٳٱ, noun
- ܲˈٳٲ, noun
- ܲˈٳٲ, adjective
Other yvlog Forms
- ܲ··ٲ· ܲ··· [s, uh, b-, mis, -, uh, -bel], adjective
- ܲ··ٲ noun
- ܲ··ٱ noun
- ܲ··پԲ· adverb
- non·ܲ··· adjective
- ·ܲ· verb (used with object) presubmitted presubmitting
- ·ܲ· verb resubmitted resubmitting
- ܲ·ܲ··پԲ adjective
yvlog History and Origins
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of submit1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Friends of the Earth said it met a 27 February deadline to submit its reply but that WCM had "failed to respond".
Due to the scale of the project, the airport had to submit a Development Consent Order to the Secretary of State for Transport for a final decision.
Last week, California was asked to submit all educational materials from its federally funded Personal Responsibility Education Program to the Administration for Children and Families at the U.S.
England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland submitted a joint expression of interest in March to hold the World Cup across the home nations.
One oft-cited drawback of its marketing plan is that customers only have to submit their saliva once, which works against repeat business.
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More About Submit
Where does ܲcome from?
As we see in our Behind The yvlog on transfer, submit is an excellent example of how Latin roots can be found all over English vocabulary.
Submit entered English around 1325–75. The word is ultimately derived from the Latin submittere, meaning “to lower, reduce, yield.” This Latin verb is composed of two parts. The first part is sub-, a combining form based on the preposition sub, meaning “under, below.” The second part is mittere, a verb meaning “to send,” often with the sense of “letting (something) go.” Fun fact: another sense of submittere in Latin was “to let grow,” as one does with their hair.
Some of the most common senses of submit in English are “to turn in,” as one submits a homework assignment or document, and “to give in,” as one submits to the will of another.
Back to the Latin roots. Latin combined mittere with a variety of its own prefixes to form new verbs, many of which made their way into English in the 1300s.
- admit (from Latin admittere, literally “to send to”; see ad-)
- commit (from Latin committere, literally “to send with”; see com–)
- demit (from Latin ŧٳٱ, literally “to send down”; see de–)
- emit (from Latin ŧٳٱ, literally “to send out”; see e–)
- intermit (from Latin intermittere, literally “to send between”; see inter–)
- intromit (from Latin Գٰōٳٱ, literally “to send in”; see intro–)
- omit (from Latin omittere, with a literal meaning of, roughly, “to send in the way of”; see o-)
- permit (from Latin permittere, literally “to send through”; see per–)
- pretermit (from Latin praetermittere, literally “to send past”; see preter–)
- remit (from Latin remittere, literally “to send back”; see re–)
- transmit (from Latin ٰԲٳٱ, literally “to send across”; see trans–)
Now, for sub-. Too many words to list here feature the prefix sub-, either as borrowed from Latin or formed in English. Below are just a few examples. Can you think of more?
Dig deeper
Many other English words contain sub-, but you might not know it at first glance. That’s due to a process called assimilation, which is when a sound becomes the same as or similar to a neighboring sound.
Before sp, sub- becomes su–, as in suspect. Before c, sub- becomes suc–, as in succeed. Sub- becomes suf- before f (suffer), sug- before g (suggest), and sum– before m (summon). And just to be absolutely thorough, sub- becomes sup- before p, as in suppose, and sur- before r, as in surrogate.
Did you know ... ?
The Latin verb mittere shows up in many other English words, such as missile and mission. Without getting too far into the grammar weeds, those double s’s (as opposed to the double t’s we see in mittere) are based on the past participle form of the verb: missus, “(a) sent (thing).” This is why the noun form of submit is submission—aԻ admission for admit, permission for permit, and so on.
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