different between submit vs cower

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

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ka??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ka??/
• Rhymes: -a?.?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English cowre, couren, curen, from Middle Low German kûren (“to lie in wait; linger”) or from North Germanic (Icelandic kúra (“to doze”)). Cognate with German kauern (“to squat”), Dutch koeren (“to keep watch (in a cowered position)”), Serbo-Croatian kutriti (“to lie in a bent position”). Unrelated to coward, which is of Latin origin.

Verb

cower (third-person singular simple present cowers, present participle cowering, simple past and past participle cowered)

1. (intransitive) To crouch or cringe, or to avoid or shy away from something, in fear.

   He'd be useless in war. He'd just cower in his bunker until the enemy came in and shot him, or until the war was over.

   • 1700, John Dryden, "The Cock and the Fox", in Fables, Ancient and Modern, published March 1700:

     Our dame sits cowering o'er a kitchen fire.

2. (intransitive, archaic) To crouch in general.
   • 1764, Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller:

     Some sterner virtues o’er the mountain’s breast
     May sit, like falcons, cowering on the nest

   • 1801, Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer:

     The mother bird had mov’d not,
     But cowering o’er her nestlings,
     Sate confident and fearless,
     And watch’d the wonted guest.

3. (transitive) To cause to cower; to frighten into submission.

Translations

See also

• coward
• cowardice

Etymology 2

Verb

cower (third-person singular simple present cowers, present participle cowering, simple past and past participle cowered)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To cherish with care.

Anagrams

• Crowe