Involve vs Commitment - What's the difference?
involve | commitment |
To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.
* (John Milton)
To envelop completely; to surround; to cover; to hide; to involve in darkness or obscurity.
* (John Milton)
To complicate or make intricate, as in grammatical structure.
* (John Locke)
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, chapter=17 To connect with something as a natural or logical consequence or effect; to include necessarily; to imply.
* (John Milton)
* Tillotson
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, title= To take in; to gather in; to mingle confusedly; to blend or merge.
* (Alexander Pope)
* (John Milton)
To envelop, enfold, entangle, or embarrass.
To engage thoroughly; to occupy, employ, or absorb.
* Sir (Walter Scott)
(mathematics) To raise to any assigned power; to multiply, as a quantity, into itself a given number of times.
The act or an instance of committing, putting in charge, keeping, or trust, especially:
# The act of sending a legislative bill to committee for review.
# Official consignment sending a person to prison or a mental health institution
Promise or agreement to do something in the future, especially:
# Act of assuming a financial obligation at a future date
Being bound emotionally/intellectually to a course of action or to another person/other persons.
The trait of sincerity and focused purpose.
Perpetration, in a negative manner, as in a crime or mistake.
State of being pledged or engaged.
The act of being locked away, such as in an institution for the mentally ill or jail.
As a verb involve
is to roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.As a noun commitment is
the act or an instance of committing, putting in charge, keeping, or trust, especially:.involve
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Alternative forms
* envolveVerb
(involv)- Some of serpent kind involved / Their snaky folds.
- And leave a singèd bottom all involved / With stench and smoke.
- Involved discourses.
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- He knows / His end with mine involved .
- The contrary necessarily involves a contradiction.
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- The gathering number, as it moves along, / Involves a vast involuntary throng.
- Earth with hell / To mingle and involve .
- Involved in a deep study.