Dictionary Definition
submission
Noun
1 something (manuscripts or architectural plans
and models or estimates or works of art of all genres etc.)
submitted for the judgment of others (as in a competition);
"several of his submissions were rejected by publishers"; "what was
the date of submission of your proposal?" [syn: entry]
2 the act of submitting; usually surrendering
power to another [syn: compliance]
3 the condition of having submitted to control by
someone or something else; "the union was brought into submission";
"his submission to the will of God"
4 the feeling of patient submissive humbleness
[syn: meekness]
5 a legal document summarizing an agreement
between parties in a dispute to abide by the decision of an
arbiter
6 an agreement between parties in a dispute to
abide by the decision of an arbiter
7 (law) a contention presented by a lawyer to a
judge or jury as part of the case he is arguing
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Noun
- the act of submitting
- the thing which has been submitted
Translations
the act of submitting
- Finnish: alistuminen
- Macedonian: поднесување
the thing which has been submitted
Extensive Definition
Submission may refer to:
- Submission (film), a film directed by Theo van Gogh and written by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- "Submission", a song from the 1977 album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
- "Submission", a religion related to Islam practiced by the United Submitters International
- Dominance & submission (BDSM), accepting of dominance in an alternative lifestyle context
- Mail submission agent, electronic mail software
- the act of yielding to some power or authority
- Submission (combat sport), a term for yielding to an opponent
- Submission wrestling, combat sports that focus on using submission holds
- Submission hold, a type of grappling hold
Submission may also be:
- Islam, the name of a religion meaning "submission" in Arabic
- A proposal for a presentation at an academic conference
- In biology and, a placatory response to an animal showing more Dominance (ethology)
submission in German: Submission
submission in French: Soumission
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
OK,
Quakerism, acceptance, accord, acquiescence, advance, affirmation, affirmative, affirmative
voice, agreement,
allegiance, amenability, approach, approbation, approval, asking price,
assent, aye, bend, bending the knee, bid, blessing, bob, bow, bowing, bowing and scraping,
capitulation,
compliance, concession, conformity, connivance, consent, contribution, cringing, curtsy, deference, dipping the colors,
docility, duteousness, dutifulness, eagerness, endorsement, entry, faith, fealty, feeler, genuflection, giving in,
homage, humbleness, humility, inclination, invitation, kneeling, kowtow, loyalty, making a leg, meekness, nod, nonresistance, nonviolent
resistance, obedience,
obediency, obeisance, obsequiousness, observance, offer, offering, okay, overture, passive resistance,
passiveness,
passivity, permission, preliminary
approach, presentation, presenting
arms, proffer, promptitude, promptness, prostration, quietism, ratification, readiness, resignation, reverence, salaam, salutation, salute, sanction, scrape, service, servility, servitium, standing at
attention, submissiveness, submittal, submitting, suit and service,
suit service, surrender, tender, tentative approach,
timidity, tractability, uncomplainingness,
ungrudgingness,
unloathness,
unreluctance,
willingness,
yielding