What's the difference between committed and gobble?

Committed


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Commit

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lucy and Ed will combine coverage of hard and breaking news with a commitment to investigative journalism, which their track record so clearly demonstrates”.
  • (2) Before issuing the ruling, the judge Shaban El-Shamy read a lengthy series of remarks detailing what he described as a litany of ills committed by the Muslim Brotherhood, including “spreading chaos and seeking to bring down the Egyptian state”.
  • (3) The evidence suggests that by the age of 15 years many adolescents show a reliable level of competence in metacognitive understanding of decision-making, creative problem-solving, correctness of choice, and commitment to a course of action.
  • (4) David Cameron last night hit out at his fellow world leaders after the G8 dropped the promise to meet the historic aid commitments made at Gleneagles in 2005 from this year's summit communique.
  • (5) However, he has also insisted that North Korea live up to its own commitments, adhere to its international obligations and deal peacefully with its neighbours.
  • (6) The cyclical nature of pyromania has parallels in cycles of reform in standards of civil commitment (Livermore, Malmquist & Meehl, 1958; Dershowitz, 1974), in the use of physical therapies and medications (Tourney, 1967; Mora, 1974), in treatment of the chronically mentally ill (Deutsch, 1949; Morrissey & Goldman, 1984), and in institutional practices (Treffert, 1967; Morrissey, Goldman & Klerman (1980).
  • (7) Altering the time of PMA exposure demonstrated that PMA inhibited chondrocyte phenotypic expression, rather than cell commitment: early (0-48 h) exposure to PMA (during chondrocytic commitment in vitro) had little inhibitory effect on the staining index, whereas, exposure from 49-96 h (presumably post-commitment) and 0-96 h had moderate and strong inhibitory effects, respectively, on cartilage synthesis.
  • (8) In other words, the commitment to the euro is too deep to be forsaken.
  • (9) What’s needed is manifesto commitments from all the main political parties to improve the help single homeless people are legally entitled to.
  • (10) But the condition of edifices such as B30 and B38 - and all the other "legacy" structures built at Sellafield decades ago - suggest Britain might end up paying a heavy price for this new commitment to nuclear energy.
  • (11) The secretary of state should work constructively with frontline staff and managers rather than adversarially and commit to no administrative reorganisation.” Dr Jennifer Dixon, chief executive, Health Foundation “It will be crucial that the next government maintains a stable and certain environment in the NHS that enables clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) to continue to transform care and improve health outcomes for their local populations.
  • (12) Yet those who have remained committed have become ever more angry.
  • (13) He was really an English public schoolboy, but I welcome the idea of people who are in some ways not Scottish, yet are committed to Scotland.
  • (14) And any Labour commitment on spending is fatally undermined by their deficit amnesia.” Davey widened the attack on the Tories, following a public row this week between Clegg and Theresa May over the “snooper’s charter”, by accusing his cabinet colleague Eric Pickles of coming close to abusing his powers by blocking new onshore developments against the wishes of some local councils.
  • (15) As a strategy to reach hungry schoolchildren, and increase domestic food production, household incomes and food security in deprived communities, the GSFP has become a very popular programme with the Ghanaian public, and enjoys solid commitment from the government.
  • (16) Many, including Vietnam, Gabon and the Republic of Congo have detailed plans in place, backed by high-level political commitment.
  • (17) To settle the case, Apple and the four publishers offered a range of commitments to the commission that will include the termination of current agency agreements, and, for two years, giving ebook retailers the freedom to set their own prices for ebooks.
  • (18) Cable argued that the additional £30bn austerity proposed by the chancellor after 2015 went beyond the joint coalition commitment to eradicate the structural part of the UK's current budget deficit – the part of non-investment spending that will not disappear even when the economy has fully emerged from the recession of 2008-09.
  • (19) In response, detainees – the vast majority of them failed asylum seekers who have committed no crime – waved and shared messages of solidarity.
  • (20) It’s not just that Lester was one of the first signs that the Red Sox’s commitment to players from their own system was starting to pay off.

Gobble


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To swallow or eat greedily or hastily; to gulp.
  • (v. t.) To utter (a sound) like a turkey cock.
  • (v. i.) To eat greedily.
  • (v. i.) To make a noise like that of a turkey cock.
  • (n.) A noise made in the throat.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There are no frame-gobbling images, no torrents of blood flowing down the streets of suburban Australia.
  • (2) At a time when British brands such as Weetabix are being gobbled up by Chinese companies, a growing number of UK businesses hope to grab their own slice of the booming Chinese grocery market.
  • (3) Rafa holds too after his opponent plops a forehand short and Nadal gobbles the chance.
  • (4) Asylum seekers are widely perceived to be a large group of undeserving people who scrounge benefits and gobble up social housing and jobs that should be reserved for British citizens.
  • (5) Many landowners have been in financial limbo for years as the authority weighs different paths, leaving farmers wary of planting crops or buying new equipment in case their land gets gobbled up.
  • (6) Deep thought That sense of responsibility was put on show earlier this year when Cadbury turned Dairy Milk into a Fairtrade product and so transforming gobbling down a big bar of the purple stuff into snacking with a social conscience.
  • (7) The competition regulator is examining whether gobbling up one of Poundland’s few single-price rivals will give the retailer more freedom to reduce the offers shoppers get for their £1 – like those two-for-a-pound Aloe Vera drinks.
  • (8) Arsenal came to resemble the chicken feed from the lower reaches of the Bundesliga that Bayern routinely gobble up, although there is no shame in being beaten by them – and badly at that.
  • (9) But the new research does suggest that the reasons for long-term endemic joblessness are much more complicated than the story crafted by government and eagerly gobbled up by irresponsible programme makers and scrounger-seeking tabloids.
  • (10) Big two-litre engine, short slope, oh dear: it took an enormous high-revving, fuel-gobbling wheelspin to heave the S-Max up the hill.
  • (11) Saints 0-3 Seahawks, 10:19, 1st quarter Still a strong defensive stand for the Saints, who gobble up a pair of Lynch runs before dragging down receiver Doug Baldwin after a short gain on third-and-nine.
  • (12) 9.28pm BST Dodgers 0 - Cardinals 0, bottom of the 1st Yadier Molina hits a ball that seems likely to sneak into the outfield but Nick Punto, in the game only because Hanley Ramirez is hurt, gobbles it up to make the third out of the inning and keep the Cardinals off the board.
  • (13) The man is a picture of confidence, gobbling up Pedroia's roller to shortstop.
  • (14) Instead of savouring, we gobble – not just words, but everything.
  • (15) One has to admire Hilary's ferocity, much like Muldoon in Jurassic Park really has to admire the escaped raptor's speed before it gobbles him as a pre-lunch amuse-bouche.
  • (16) Jones, who admitted to eating Weetabix for breakfast every other day – alternating with porridge – said he had "no problem" with China gobbling up great British brands, but just wished that they would be "similarly open to British investment in China".
  • (17) By the end of this process, Americans had gobbled up more than 85 per cent of Chile's hard-currency earning industries.
  • (18) Fledgling publicist Max persuaded Kelvin MacKenzie, the then Sun editor, to run a story about how Starr put his friend Lea La Salle's hamster, Supersonic, between two pieces of bread and gobbled it up.
  • (19) Snake, obviously Sure, now the greatest Electronic Arts and Rockstar games are available at the tap of an app, gobbling up phone space and hours of time.
  • (20) B efore I met her I’d never really had a salad,” Callum Wilson says, thinking back to the moment that accelerated his development from a promising but fragile youngster into the lean and muscular striker who is gobbling up chances for Bournemouth in the same way he once devoured fast food.