Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
committed \committed\ adj.
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Bound or obligated, as under a pledge to a particular cause, action, or attitude. Opposite of uncommitted.
Note: [Narrower terms: bound up, involved, wrapped up; dedicated, devoted; pledged, sworn]
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Associated in an exclusive sexual relationship; also called attached. Opposite of unattached.
Note: [Narrower terms: affianced, bespoken, betrothed, engaged, pledged, promised(predicate); married]
Syn: attached.
Consigned involuntarily to custody, as in a prison or mental institution.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "entrusted, delegated," past participle adjective from commit (v.). Meaning "locked into a commitment" is from 1948.
Wiktionary
1 obligated by a pledge to some course of action. 2 showing commitment. 3 associated in an exclusive (but not necessarily permanent) sexual relationship. 4 (context rhetoric English) Required by logic to endorse the conclusion of an argument. v
(en-past of: commit)
WordNet
See commit
adj. bound or obligated, as under a pledge to a particular cause, action, or attitude; "committed church members"; "a committed Marxist" [ant: uncommitted]
associated in an exclusive sexual relationship [syn: attached] [ant: unattached]
v. perform an act, usually with a negative connotation; "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery" [syn: perpetrate, pull]
give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause; "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church" [syn: give, dedicate, consecrate, devote]
cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison" [syn: institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge]
confer a trust upon; "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God" [syn: entrust, intrust, trust, confide]
make an investment; "Put money into bonds" [syn: invest, put, place] [ant: divest]
[also: committing, committed]
Wikipedia
Committed is a 2000 film directed and written by Lisa Krueger.
Committed is a Canadian animated television series that aired on CTV in Canada in 2001, and WE tv in the United States in 2002.1
It was based on an American comic strip of the same name by Michael Fry, better known for Over the Hedge.
All 13 episodes of the show can be seen viewed on Amazon Video.
American country singer Trisha Yearwood performs the theme song to the series.
Committed was an American comic strip written and drawn by Michael Fry. It ran from 1994 to 2006 and was syndicated by United Feature Syndicate. The strip was a family-oriented strip, focusing on a suburban family composed of two young children and their parents. It was also adapted into an animated TV series in 2001.
Committed is a television sitcom that aired on NBC as a midseason replacement from January 4 to March 15, 2005. Although originally broadcast twice a week (on Tuesdays and Thursdays) the series eventually settled in a regular timeslot on Tuesdays at 9:30PM EST after Scrubs. The show starred Josh Cooke and Jennifer Finnigan and costarred Darius McCrary, Tammy Lynn Michaels and Tom Poston. Cooke and Finnigan played two single and extremely eccentric New Yorkers who are subject to constant interference when they begin dating from their equally eccentric friends and Finnigan's roommate, known only as "Dying Clown" or "Clown" who was actually a clown, played by Tom Poston.
The show ran for 13 episodes. Clips and fan-generated montages can still be found online, but no official DVDs have been produced.
Committed may refer to:
In film:
- Committed (1984 film), a 1984 film starring Sheila McLaughlin
- Committed (1991 film), a 1991 film starting Jennifer O'Neill and Ron Palillo
- Committed (2000 film), a 2000 film starring Heather Graham and Luke Wilson
- Committed: The Toronto International Film Festival, a 2010 documentary by Morgan Spurlock
- Committed (2011 film), a TV film starring Andrea Roth
In literature:
- Committed (comic strip), a 1994-2006 comic strip by Michael Fry, basis for the 2001 TV series (see below)
- Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage, a 2010 book by Elizabeth Gilbert
In television:
- Committed (2001 TV series), a Canadian animated series
- Committed (2005 TV series), an American sitcom
- "Committed" (CSI), an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
- Committed (group), an a cappella singing group who competed in The Sing-Off
Committed is an a cappella group of six male vocalists from Huntsville, Alabama, all students at Oakwood University, a historically black Seventh-day Adventist school in Huntsville. The group—Therry Thomas, Dennis Baptiste, Tommy Gervais, Geston Pierre, Robert Pressley and Maurice Staple—began singing together in 2003, inspired by another a cappella group that originated at Oakwood, Take 6.
The group won the second season of the musical competition The Sing-Off. They won the title on the finale broadcast on December 20, 2010 broadcast on NBC, singing a vocal "a cappella" arrangement of " We Are the Champions" from Queen.
The singing group released their self-titled album Committed on Epic Records.
Committed (26 February 1980 – May 3, 2009) was an American-bred, Irish-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare. A specialist sprinter, she competed in four countries and won seventeen of her thirty races between 1982 and 1986. She showed promise as a two-year-old in 1982 and won six consecutive races in the following season, when she was campaigned exclusively in Ireland. As a four-year-old, she emerged as one of the leading sprinters in Europe, winning the Cork and Orrery Stakes and Nunthorpe Stakes in England and the Prix de l'Abbaye in France. In the following year she won the Ballyogan Stakes and Flying Five Stakes before becoming the third horse to win the Prix de l'Abbaye for a second time. She was retired from racing to become a broodmare in the United States and had considerable success as a dam of winners. She died in 2009 at the age of twenty-nine.
Usage examples of "committed".
If Adams had any thoughts or feelings about the passing of the epochal eighteenth century--any observations on the Age of Enlightenment, the century of Johnson, Voltaire, the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the age of Pitt and Washington, the advent of the United States of America--or if he had any premonitions or words to the wise about the future of his country or of humankind, he committed none to paper.
If he developed information that a crime was about to be committed, agents would then move in and do the necessary surveillance to make a case.
New York SOG that had committed a half dozen agents and five vehicles on four Sundays in a row to follow Abouhalima, Salameh, Nosair, and Ayyad as they trained with automatic weapons at Calverton.
The word reportedly came down to Neal Herman, head of the Joint Terrorist Task Force, who had committed a number of his agents to the Flight 800 probe.
He also heard from Prior Alcock that for a month past, the forest below Malvern Abbey, about the Rhydd ford, had been the haunt of a body of outlaws who had committed numerous depredations of an alarming character.
Her Anabaptist doctrines were tolerated, as were most cults, but the Naval Service, like the rest of the Government, was committed to the Great Yahwehist Christian Reunification.
BentAnat yesterday morning committed a heavy sin, and that in all the temples in the land the Gods shall be entreated with offerings to take her uncleanness from her.
In your heart you know that no crime was committed and that the lodging of the report you contemplate would only hurt each of you.
In his dreams Andas saw the Triple Towers in ruins, even as Wenditkover had been, or else a detachment of the guard waiting to take him prisoner for some crime his double had committed in his name.
The account also did not raise other issues such as whether Mexicans committed proportionally more violent crimes against Anglos than Anglos against Mexicans.
The basest of these forms is in some respects cruelty to animals, since animals are so thoroughly committed into our hands.
He wondered what became of Archimedean Enterprises if Kathy was declared unable to manage her affairs, if she was forcibly committed.
Rome, Arvandus was committed to the hospitality, rather than to the custody, of Flavius Asellus, the count of the sacred largesses, who resided in the Capitol.
In October, 1839, the young Baronne du Guenic had a son, and committed the mistake of nursing it herself, on the theory of most women in such cases.
Williams provided any information about Tribulation Force activist Al Basrah, and neither is there evidence to support that he committed suicide.