I submitted my application form yesterday - 英语词汇详解

Meaning 1：submit (I submitted my application form yesterday)

I submitted my application form yesterday 🔊

/səbˈmɪt/

To give something like a form or application to someone in authority for them to consider or approve.

submit 🔊

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/səbˈmɪt/

To give something such as a form, application, or report to an authority for consideration or approval.

📁 Category：Behaviors & Actions 🔖 Level：Intermediate

📘 Details & Usage

📖 Root Explanation

sub- (under) + mittere (send) => to present for approval.

💡 Mnemonic

Imagine a submarine (sub) sending (mit) a report up to the surface for review.

📖 Example

I submitted my application form yesterday for the university program. 🔊 I submitted my application form yesterday for the university program.

🔗 Collocations

submit a proposal – to formally present a proposal for evaluation

submit an assignment – to hand in homework or coursework

submit to authority – to yield or obey a person in power

🔄 Synonyms

present (v.) – To offer something for consideration or to formally give it.

file (v.) – To submit official documents, especially legal or administrative ones.

proffer (v.) – To offer something, often in a formal or courteous manner.

🚫 Antonyms

withdraw (v.) – To take back something that was previously submitted.

retain (v.) – To keep something and not give it to others.

🌱 Derivatives

submission (n.) – The act of submitting or something that has been submitted.

submissive (adj.) – Willing to obey or yield to others.

submitter (n.) – A person who submits something.

📖 Cultural Story

From Latin 'submittere' (to lower, place under). In modern English, it is the standard verb for formally handing in documents, applications, or proposals in academic and professional contexts.