different between submit vs submitting

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

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

Verb

submitting

1. present participle of submit

Noun

submitting (plural submittings)

1. (rare, formal) A submission.
   • 1827, Anna Maria Porter, Honor O'Hara (volume 2, page 268)

     With something of her original archness, mingling with graver rebuke, Honoria reminded the rebel of certain dutiful expressions, and religious submittings of the will, with which he had so lately gratified her.

   • 1869, The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review

     Did the Creator see fit to adopt the plan of creation through a series of variations, and submittings of them to selection; or did He, by his fiat, evoke the human form into its acknowledged perfection in an instant?