Definition: submit

Source: WordNet (r) 1.7

submit
     v 1: refer for judgment or consideration; "She submitted a
          proposal to the agency"
     2: put before; "I submit to you that the accused is guilty"
        [syn: state, put forward]
     3: yield to the control of another
     4: hand over formally [syn: present]
     5: refer to another person for decision or judgment; "She likes
        to relegate difficult questions to her colleagues" [syn: relegate,
         pass on]
     6: submit or yield to another's wish or opinion; "The
        government bowed to the military pressure" [syn: bow, defer,
         accede, give in]
     7: accept or undergo, often unwillingly; "We took a pay cut"
        [syn: take, undergo]
     8: put on an application, apply for a job, in a competition,
        etc.; "We put in a grant to the NSF" [syn: put in]
     9: Law: make over as a return; "They had to render the estate"
        [syn: render]
     10: accept as inevitable; "He resigned himself to his fate"
         [syn: resign, reconcile]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Submit \Sub*mit"\, v. i.
   1. To yield one's person to the power of another; to give up
      resistance; to surrender.

            The revolted provinces presently submitted. --C.
                                                  Middleton.

   2. To yield one's opinion to the opinion of authority of
      another; to be subject; to acquiesce.

            To thy husband's will Thine shall submit. --Milton.

   3. To be submissive or resigned; to yield without murmuring.

            Our religion requires from us . . . to submit to
            pain, disgrace, and even death.       --Rogers.

Submit \Sub*mit"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Submitted; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Submitting.] [L. submittere; sub under + mittere to
   send: cf. F. soumettre. See Missile.]
   1. To let down; to lower. [Obs.]

            Sometimes the hill submits itself a while. --Dryden.

   2. To put or place under.

            The bristled throat Of the submitted sacrifice with
            ruthless steel he cut.                --Chapman.

   3. To yield, resign, or surrender to power, will, or
      authority; -- often with the reflexive pronoun.

            Ye ben submitted through your free assent.
                                                  --Chaucer.

            The angel of the Lord said unto her, Return to thy
            mistress, and submit thyself under her hands. --Gen.
                                                  xvi. 9.

            Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands.
                                                  --Eph. v. 22.

   4. To leave or commit to the discretion or judgment of
      another or others; to refer; as, to submit a controversy
      to arbitrators; to submit a question to the court; --
      often followed by a dependent proposition as the object.

            Whether the condition of the clergy be able to bear
            a heavy burden, is submitted to the house. --Swift.

            We submit that a wooden spoon of our day would not
            be justified in calling Galileo and Napier
            blockheads because they never heard of the
            differential calculus.                --Macaulay.