commit forever; commit irrevocably
consign
How to use consign in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for consign.
Editorial note
Nor can you just consign all non-experts to some straw-man-ish "blub" category.
Quick take
commit forever; commit irrevocably
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of consign gathered in one view.
give over to another for care or safekeeping; "consign your baggage"
send to an address
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for consign.
verb
commit forever; commit irrevocably
verb
give over to another for care or safekeeping; "consign your baggage"
See also: charge
verb
send to an address
Example sentences
Nor can you just consign all non-experts to some straw-man-ish "blub" category.
You appear to want to hang your hat on writing that, in the realm of novels, would consign you to a vanity press, which baffles me.
But that does not give you the right to consign them to a label, and to predict their future, and to dehumanize them, calling them 'permanently broken'.
With the moralistic notion of "debt", we religiously consign children to awful fates.
So instead of promises we'll use last argument callbacks and consign the task of building better abstraction layers to user libraries.
Don't these people realize that by misspelling their subject's name, they make Web searches for their article impossible and thus consign themselves to the great bit bucket in the sky?
It is not sexy as in 'objects all the way down', 'functions all the way down', 'consign all the way down', or whatever else rocks one's boat, but it is sturdy and does get the job done.
It seems that the writers just didn't know what to do with her, other than consign her to stereotypical, damsel-in-distress and love-interest tropes.
If I want to kill someone and consign them to obscurity as well, I'd do it in a way that didn't maximize the potential for gossip involving a famous person.
>So it's your desire to consign the Indian would-be immigrant to a life of poverty just to make sure your wage stays above $150k/yearThe reality is that the government will make policies that favour citizens over foreigners.
There's far more than money on the line and if I were the one dying of a $65,000/year cancer I'd also struggle to respect the international laws that were willing to consign me to death if the profit on the materials was in the 99% range.
-- and I'd be perfectly sanguine about the sanguinary fate to which they'd unknowingly consign themselves, did it not take such enormities to slake the thirst of the mob; one of the Terror's distinguishing characteristics, after all, is that it is always so very hard to steer.
We do not consign blame or responsibility upon MIT for what has happened, but call for all those feel heavy-hearted in their proximity to this awful loss to acknowledge instead the responsibility they have that we all have to build and safeguard a future that would make Aaron proud, and honour the ideals and dedication that burnt so brightly within him by embodying them in thought and word and action.
We do not consign blame or responsibility upon MIT for what has happened, but call for all those feel heavy-hearted in their proximity to this awful loss to acknowledge instead the responsibility they have that we all have to build and safeguard a future that would make Aaron proud, and honour the ideals and dedication that burnt so brightly within him by embodying them in thought and word and action.---edit: it also seems that the closing line, "You were the best of us; may you yet bring out the best in us.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use consign in a sentence?
Nor can you just consign all non-experts to some straw-man-ish "blub" category.
What does consign mean?
commit forever; commit irrevocably
What part of speech is consign?
consign is commonly used as verb.