different between consent vs submit

English

Etymology

Recorded in Middle English since circa 1225, borrowed from Old French consentir, from Latin c?nsent?re, present active infinitive of c?nsenti? (“to feel together”), itself from com- (“with”) + senti? (“to feel”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?s?nt/
• Rhymes: -?nt
• Hyphenation: con?sent

Verb

consent (third-person singular simple present consents, present participle consenting, simple past and past participle consented) (intransitive)

1. To express willingness, to give permission.
2. (medicine) To cause to sign a consent form.
3. (obsolete) To grant; to allow; to assent to.
4. To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.

   • And Saul was consenting unto his death.

   • Flourishing many years before Wyclif, and much consenting with him in judgment.

Usage notes

• This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Synonyms

• (intransitive): acquiesce, agree, approve, assent, concur, yes

Antonyms

• (intransitive): disagree, object, oppose

Related terms

Translations

Noun

consent (countable and uncountable, plural consents)

1. Voluntary agreement or permission.
2. (obsolete) Unity or agreement of opinion, sentiment, or inclination.

   • And they all with one consent began to make excuse.

3. (obsolete) Advice; counsel.

Synonyms

• (voluntary agreement): agreement, approval, assent, consensualness, permission, willingness, yes

Antonyms

• (voluntary agreement): dissent, disagreement, opposition, refusal

Derived terms

• consenter
• consentaneous
• age of consent

Translations

Further reading

• consent at OneLook Dictionary Search
• consent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• nocents

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.s??/

Verb

consent

1. third-person singular present indicative of consentir

English

Etymology

From Middle English submitten, borrowed from Latin submittere, infinitive of submitt? (“place under, yield”), from sub (“under, from below, up”) + mitto (“to send”). Compare upsend.

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?bm?t?, IPA^(key): /s?b?m?t/
• Rhymes: -?t
• Hyphenation: sub?mit

Verb

submit (third-person singular simple present submits, present participle submitting, simple past and past participle submitted)

1. (intransitive) To yield or give way to another.

   They will not submit to the destruction of their rights.

2. (transitive) To yield (something) to another, as when defeated.
3. (transitive, intransitive) To enter or put forward for approval, consideration, marking etc.
   • 1843, Thomas Macaulay, Sir James Mackintosh's History of the Revolution

     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.
4. (transitive) To subject; to put through a process.
5. (transitive, mixed martial arts) To win a fight against (an opponent) by submission.
   • Okamoto, Brett (December 28, 2013) , “Ronda Rousey wins with arm bar”, in (Please provide the title of the work)?^[1], ESPN.com, retrieved January 6, 2014

     "[Ronda] Rousey, a former U.S. Olympian in Judo, caps off a perfect year in which she submitted Liz Carmouche in the first-ever UFC female fight and coached opposite [Miesha] Tate in "The Ultimate Fighter" reality series."

6. (transitive, obsolete) To let down; to lower.
   • 1662, John Dryden, Poem to the Lord Chancellor Hyde

     Sometimes the hill submits itself a while.

7. (transitive, obsolete) To put or place under.
   • 1611, George Chapman, Homer's Iliads

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

Derived terms

• submittable
• submittal
• submitter

Related terms

• submission
• submissive
• mission

Translations

Further reading

• submit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• submit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• submit at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• tumbis