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delicate | commit |

As an adjective delicate

is .

As a verb commit is

.

delicate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Easily damaged or requiring careful handling.
  • Those clothes are made from delicate lace.
    The negotiations were very delicate .
  • * F. W. Robertson
  • There are some things too delicate and too sacred to be handled rudely without injury to truth.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=April 23 , author=Angelique Chrisafis , title=François Hollande on top but far right scores record result in French election , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=The final vote between Hollande and Sarkozy now depends on a delicate balance of how France's total of rightwing and leftwing voters line up.}}
  • Characterized by a fine structure or thin lines.
  • Her face was delicate .
    The spider wove a delicate web.
    There was a delicate pattern of frost on the window.
  • Intended for use with fragile items.
  • Set the washing machine to the delicate cycle.
  • Refined; gentle; scrupulous not to trespass or offend; considerate; said of manners, conduct, or feelings.
  • delicate''' behaviour; '''delicate''' attentions; '''delicate thoughtfulness
  • Of weak health; easily sick; unable to endure hardship.
  • a delicate''' child; '''delicate health
  • * Shakespeare
  • a delicate and tender prince
  • (informal) Unwell, especially because of having drunk too much alcohol.
  • Please don't speak so loudly: I'm feeling a bit delicate this morning.
  • (obsolete) Addicted to pleasure; luxurious; voluptuous; alluring.
  • * 1360–1387 , (William Langland), (Piers Plowman) (C-text), passus IX, line 285:
  • Þenk þat diues for hus delicat lyf to þe deuel wente.
  • * circa'' 1660 , (John Evelyn) (author), , volume I of II (1901), entry for the 19th of August in 1641, page 29:
  • Haerlem is a very delicate town and hath one of the fairest churches of the Gothic design I had ever seen.
  • Pleasing to the senses; refined; adapted to please an elegant or cultivated taste.
  • a delicate''' dish; '''delicate flavour
  • Slight and shapely; lovely; graceful.
  • * circa'' 1603 , (William Shakespeare), ''(Othello) , act II, scene iii, lines 18 and 20–21:
  • :   She’s a most exquisite lady.…Indeed, she’s a most fresh and delicate creature.
  • Light, or softly tinted; said of a colour.
  • a delicate shade of blue
  • Of exacting tastes and habits; dainty; fastidious.
  • Highly discriminating or perceptive; refinedly critical; sensitive; exquisite.
  • a delicate''' taste; a '''delicate ear for music
  • Affected by slight causes; showing slight changes.
  • a delicate thermometer

    Synonyms

    * (easily damaged) fragile

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A delicate item of clothing, especially underwear or lingerie.
  • Don't put that in with your jeans: it's a delicate !
  • (obsolete) A choice dainty; a delicacy.
  • With abstinence all delicates he sees. — Dryden.
  • (obsolete) A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person.
  • All the vessels, then, which our delicates have, — those I mean that would seem to be more fine in their houses than their neighbours, — are only of the Corinth metal. — Holland.

    commit

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Verb

    (committ)
  • To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
  • * Bible, Psalms xxxvii. 5
  • Commit thy way unto the Lord.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Bid him farewell, commit him to the grave.
  • To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
  • * Clarendon
  • These two were committed .
  • To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
  • * Bible, Exodus xx. 4
  • Thou shalt not commit adultery.
  • To join a contest; to match; followed by with .
  • To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; for example to commit oneself to a certain action'', ''to commit oneself to doing something''. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without ''oneself etc.)http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_speech/v074/74.3shapiro.html
  • * Junius
  • You might have satisfied every duty of political friendship, without committing the honour of your sovereign.
  • * Marshall
  • Any sudden assent to the proposalmight possibly be considered as committing the faith of the United States.
  • (obsolete, Latinism) To confound.
  • * Milton
  • committing short and long [quantities]
  • (obsolete) To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
  • *, II.12:
  • the sonne might one day bee found committing with his mother.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Commit not with man's sworn spouse.

    Usage notes

    To , entrust, consign. These words have in common the idea of transferring from one's self to the care and custody of another. Commit'' is the widest term, and may express only the general idea of delivering into the charge of another; as, to commit a lawsuit to the care of an attorney; or it may have the special sense of entrusting with or without limitations, as to a superior power, or to a careful servant, or of consigning, as to writing or paper, to the flames, or to prison. To ''entrust'' denotes the act of committing to the exercise of confidence or trust; as, to entrust a friend with the care of a child, or with a secret. To ''consign is a more formal act, and regards the thing transferred as placed chiefly or wholly out of one's immediate control; as, to consign a pupil to the charge of his instructor; to consign goods to an agent for sale; to consign a work to the press.

    Derived terms

    * commit suicide * commit oneself

    References

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (computing) The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction or source code into a source control repository), making it a permanent change.
  • * 1988 , Klaus R Dittrich, Advances in Object-Oriented Database Systems: 2nd International Workshop
  • To support locking and process synchronization independently of transaction commits , the server provides semaphore objects...
  • * 2009 , Jon Loeliger, Version Control with Git
  • Every Git commit represents a single, atomic changeset with respect to the previous state.