SUBMIT (submitted, submitting)

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Irregular inflected forms: submitted    , submitting   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does submit mean? 

• SUBMIT (verb)
  The verb SUBMIT has 10 senses:

1. refer for judgment or consideration

2. put before

3. yield to the control of another

4. hand over formally

5. refer to another person for decision or judgment

6. yield to another's wish or opinion

7. accept or undergo, often unwillingly

8. make an application as for a job or funding

9. make over as a return

10. accept as inevitable

  Familiarity information: SUBMIT used as a verb is familiar.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUBMIT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they submit    ... he / she / it submits   
Past simple: submitted   
Past participle: submitted   
-ing form: submitting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Refer for judgment or consideration

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

The lawyers submitted the material to the court

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 2

Meaning:

Put before

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

posit; put forward; state; submit

Context example:

I submit to you that the accused is guilty

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 3

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 4

Meaning:

Hand over formally

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

present; submit

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 5

Meaning:

Refer to another person for decision or judgment

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

pass on; relegate; submit

Context example:

She likes to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues

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

submit (refer for judgment or consideration)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something to somebody

Sense 6

Meaning:

Yield to another's wish or opinion

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

accede; bow; defer; give in; submit

Context example:

The government bowed to the military pressure

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 7

Meaning:

Accept or undergo, often unwillingly

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

submit; take

Context example:

We took a pay cut

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 8

Meaning:

Make an application as for a job or funding

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Synonyms:

put in; submit

Context example:

We put in a grant to the NSF

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 9

Meaning:

Make over as a return

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

render; submit

Context example:

They had to render the estate

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:

Accept as inevitable

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

reconcile; resign; submit

Context example:

He resigned himself to his fate

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

accept (consider or hold as true)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody PP

 Context examples 

“This will not do,” said Catherine; “I cannot submit to this. I must run after Miss Tilney directly and set her right.”

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

At the end of the P20 grant cycle, the organization should be prepared to submit a CCSG application.

(Cancer Center Planning Grant, NCI Thesaurus)

This was not submitted to by either lady.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Suspense must be submitted to, and must not be allowed to wear her out, and make her useless.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Stability data submitted to an investigational new human drug application.

(Investigational New Drug Application, Food and Drug Administration)

Stability data submitted to an investigational new animal drug file.

(Investigational New Animal Drug File, Food and Drug Administration)

Stability data submitted for an HDE application.

(Humanitarian Device Exemption, Food and Drug Administration)

A report or observation of one or more adverse events that must be submitted within a specified amount of time due to the severity of one or more of the events.

(Expedited Report, NCI Thesaurus)

A document, or collection of documents, submitted by one requesting a grant.

(Grant Application, NCI Thesaurus)

"I suppose your next advice will be to submit it to the magazines."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)