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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 Word 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
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of submit1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
As part of their permitting arrangements water companies are expected to regularly sample water quality to identify potential pollution, and submit this data to the Environment Agency in an arrangement known as "operator self monitoring".
But on the day of the match he had to submit a report for school, which he hadn't completed.
Heathrow will submit initial plans for the expansion this summer, with a full proposal likely to follow in the months after.
“While you will be asked to submit an immunization form at the time of enrollment, it does not need to be complete and will not affect your enrollment status,” the website reads.
The company, which is now under government control, has withdrawn the paperwork submitted to the Department of Business and Trade by its previous management in March.
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More About Submit
Where does ܲcome from?
As we see in our Behind The Word 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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