| 单词 | to commit to writing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto commit to writing (also paper) a. transitive. To record or preserve in writing; to write down; frequently in to commit to writing (also paper). Now also: to record or preserve by some other method, as film, photography, sound recording, etc. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > [verb (transitive)] > set down in writing adighteOE to set on writea900 dightc1000 writeOE brevea1225 layc1330 indite1340 take1418 annote1449 printa1450 scribe1465 redact?a1475 reduce1485 letter1504 recite1523 to commit to writing (also paper)1529 pen1530 reduce?1533 token up1535 scripture1540 titulea1550 to set down1562 quote1573 to put down1574 paper1594 to write down1594 apprehend1611 fix1630 exarate1656 depose1668 put1910 society > communication > record > written record > record in writing [verb (transitive)] writeeOE awriteeOE markOE titlea1325 record1340 registera1393 accordc1450 chronicle1460 to write upa1475 calendar1487 enrol1530 prickc1540 scripture1540 to set down1562 report1600 reservea1616 tabulatea1646 to take down1651 actuate1658 to commit to writing (also paper)1695 to mark down1881 slate1883 1529 Bp. S. Gardiner Let. 12 Sept. (1933) 344 Ye have certain thinges to shew[e unto] the Kinges Highnes, which your Grace thinki[th not] convenient to be committed to wryting. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 69 Alanus, Herbertus, and other..that commytted to story the doyngs of Becket. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. xix. 33 Therefore was nothing committed to historie, but matters of great and excellent persons & things that the same by irritation of good courages..might worke more effectually. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Iii2a An act committed to writing in any of the Kings Courts during the terme wherein it is written, is alterable, and no record. 1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 67 There was little leisure to commit any thing to Writing. 1793 G. Crump in T. Beddoes Let. to E. Darwin 33 Not having committed any thing to paper relative to him. 1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch Preliminaries p. v All notable characters..have made a trade of committing to paper all the surprising occurrences and remarkable events that chanced to happen to them. 1883 Manch. Guardian 22 Oct. 5/4 When the bashful bard had committed his verses to print. 1924 Times 25 Sept. 9/5 The Pitaka Buddhist texts were revised and committed to writing in Ceylon. 1957 J. Bishop Day Christ Died (1959) 49 The King enjoyed committing to writing the peccadilloes and administrative errors of Roman governors. 1991 Photo Answers Apr. 63/3 You can see exactly what is, and isn't, in focus before you commit the shot to film. 2001 Times 11 Dec. ii. 18/3 The most moving expression of the man's-gotta-do-what-a-man's-gotta-do-what-a-man's-gotta-do maxim ever committed to disc. 2014 Univ. Chicago Law Rev. 81 252 Arguing over price and quantity and committing the agreement to paper. < as lemmas |
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