RECOMMIT

recommit

(verb) send back to a committee; “The bill was recommitted three times in the House”

recommit

(verb) commit again; “It was recommitted into her custody”

recommit

(verb) commit once again, as of a crime

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

recommit (third-person singular simple present recommits, present participle recommitting, simple past and past participle recommitted)

commit again

Source: Wiktionary


Re`com*mit" (-mt"), v. t.

Definition: To commit again; to give back into keeping; specifically, to refer again to a committee; as, to recommit a bill to the same committee.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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6 July 2024

ASYSTOLE

(noun) absence of systole; failure of the ventricles of the heart to contract (usually caused by ventricular fibrillation) with consequent absence of the heart beat leading to oxygen lack and eventually to death


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Coffee Trivia

The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.

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