SUBMISSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does submission mean? 

• SUBMISSION (noun)
  The noun SUBMISSION has 7 senses:

1. 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)

2. the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another

3. the condition of having submitted to control by someone or something else

4. the feeling of patient, submissive humbleness

5. a legal document summarizing an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter

6. an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter

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

  Familiarity information: SUBMISSION used as a noun is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBMISSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

entry; submission

Context example:

what was the date of submission of your proposal?

Hypernyms ("submission" is a kind of...):

content; message; subject matter; substance (what a communication that is about something is about)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "submission"):

filing (the entering of a legal document into the public record)

Derivation:

submit (refer for judgment or consideration)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

compliance; submission

Hypernyms ("submission" is a kind of...):

group action (action taken by a group of people)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "submission"):

obedience; obeisance (the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person)

prostration (abject submission; the emotional equivalent of prostrating your body)

Derivation:

submit (accept or undergo, often unwillingly)

submit (yield to another's wish or opinion)

submit (yield to the control of another)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The condition of having submitted to control by someone or something else

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Context example:

his submission to the will of God

Hypernyms ("submission" is a kind of...):

condition; status (a state at a particular time)

Derivation:

submit (yield to another's wish or opinion)

submit (yield to the control of another)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The feeling of patient, submissive humbleness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

meekness; submission

Hypernyms ("submission" is a kind of...):

humbleness; humility (a humble feeling)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A legal document summarizing an agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("submission" is a kind of...):

written agreement (a legal document summarizing the agreement between parties)

Sense 6

Meaning:

An agreement between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an arbiter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("submission" is a kind of...):

agreement; understanding (the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises)

Sense 7

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("submission" is a kind of...):

contention (a point asserted as part of an argument)

Domain category:

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

Derivation:

submit (put before)

 Context examples 

A subject domain utilized for the submission of information encompassing and representing data, vocabulary or records related to body weight gain.

(Body Weight Gain Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

A subject domain utilized for the submission of information encompassing and representing data, vocabulary or records related to bone mineral density data.

(Bone Measurements Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

A unique, 2-character domain code used in the regulatory submission process.

(CDISC SDTM Submission Domain Abbreviation Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A subject domain utilized for the submission of information encompassing and representing data, vocabulary or records related to body weight.

(Body Weight Domain, NCI Thesaurus)

A form submitted with an original BLA/NDA and subsequent submissions to that BLA/NDA.

(Application Form: FDA Form 356h, Food and Drug Administration)

She, too, rendered submission to the man- animals.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Their pride in these girls, and their submission of themselves to all their whims, was the pleasantest little testimony to their own worth I could have desired to see.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

A unique, 2-character domain code used in the regulatory submission process of pre-clinical studies.

(CDISC SEND Domain Abbreviation Terminology, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A person within a Cooperative Group, institution, clinical site, or/and particular study responsible for completion and submission of clinical trial data to the NCI via the web-based Clinical Data Update System (CDUS).

(CDU Web Contact, NCI Thesaurus)

A subject domain utilized for the submission of information encompassing and representing data, vocabulary or records related to pharmacokientic parameters.

(Pharmacokinetic Parameters Domain, NCI Thesaurus)