What's the difference between remit and submit?

Remit


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To send back; to give up; to surrender; to resign.
  • (v. t.) To restore.
  • (v. t.) To transmit or send, esp. to a distance, as money in payment of a demand, account, draft, etc.; as, he remitted the amount by mail.
  • (v. t.) To send off or away; hence: (a) To refer or direct (one) for information, guidance, help, etc. "Remitting them . . . to the works of Galen." Sir T. Elyot. (b) To submit, refer, or leave (something) for judgment or decision.
  • (v. t.) To relax in intensity; to make less violent; to abate.
  • (v. t.) To forgive; to pardon; to remove.
  • (v. t.) To refrain from exacting or enforcing; as, to remit the performance of an obligation.
  • (v. i.) To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits.
  • (v. i.) To send money, as in payment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mithramycin should be considered in the early treatment not only of hypercalcaemia but also of severe hypercalciuria, if these complications do not rapidly remit during the first course of conventional myeloma therapy, with or without steroids.
  • (2) We measured CSF immunoreactive myelin basic protein (MBP), a marker of acute myelin damage, and sIL-2R levels in the CSF from 11 patients with active relapsing remitting (RR) MS, five with stable RR MS, eight with chronic progressive (CP) MS, five with other neurologic diseases, and three normal controls.
  • (3) Its remit was to produce a report on disinfection in endoscopy.
  • (4) So the government wants a “root and branch” review to decide whether the BBC has “been chasing mass ratings at the expense of its original public service brief” ( BBC faces ‘root and branch’ review of its size and remit , 13 July).
  • (5) Anxiety disorders tend to be remitting and relapsing rather than chronic.
  • (6) She said the remit of the inquiry – established under the 2005 Inquiries Act – is due to be published by July, following input from interested parties including those who were spied upon.
  • (7) Each patient had a similar clinical course characterized by hypoglycemia that remitted during hospitalization and recurred after discharge.
  • (8) This deficit tends to remit for manics and schizoaffectives, but not for schizophrenics.
  • (9) Ten (71%) of the 14 patients in the group that received both drugs completely remitted (change in Hamilton Depression Rating Scale score of greater than 75%, and final score of less than 7) within 4 weeks, while few patients treated with desipramine alone met these criteria within 4 weeks.
  • (10) We performed 15 dynamic gadolinium-DTPA (Gd-DTPA)-enhanced MRI studies in 8 patients with relapsing and remitting multiple sclerosis; 7 were follow-up studies.
  • (11) Because it ought to be crystal clear what the BBC has agreed to do as part of its public service remit.
  • (12) Thus, acute pancreatitis may fall to remit because of proximal pancreatic duct obstruction, for which pancreatoduodenectomy is a reasonable and effective treatment.
  • (13) Therefore, the cost was high by prolonged course of therapy to increase slightly remission rate, although it could remit a few more cases.
  • (14) First, Channel 4 , a commercial network with a public service remit, challenged the BBC's second child as the place where edgier material – and younger audiences – went.
  • (15) Commercial radio executives have criticised BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 for failing to fulfill their public service remit – and suggested the two stations be switched to digital-only in a bid to boost digital take-up.
  • (16) ITN scrapped its news channel in 2005 but the BBC has a different remit and viewers look to it at time of national events such as a royal death or other major news stories.
  • (17) The pathogenesis of the relapsing and remitting paraplegia and its relationship with pregnancy is probably multi-factorial.
  • (18) One has to question how this fits with its core inflation-fighting remit?
  • (19) Hacked Off, which campaigns on behalf of victims of press intrusion for tighter press regulation, said this would help the government smooth out the wrinkles in the relevant clause added to the crime and courts bill, which attempts to define which publishers should be in or outside the regulator's remit.
  • (20) If the Parades Commission considers that the loyalist event falls within its remit, it could issue a determination that would limit its route, which currently passes the nationalist Short Strand.

Submit


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To let down; to lower.
  • (v. t.) To put or place under.
  • (v. t.) To yield, resign, or surrender to power, will, or authority; -- often with the reflexive pronoun.
  • (v. t.) To leave or commit to the discretion or judgment of another or others; to refer; as, to submit a controversy to arbitrators; to submit a question to the court; -- often followed by a dependent proposition as the object.
  • (v. i.) To yield one's person to the power of another; to give up resistance; to surrender.
  • (v. i.) To yield one's opinion to the opinion of authority of another; to be subject; to acquiesce.
  • (v. i.) To be submissive or resigned; to yield without murmuring.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He added: "There is a rigorous review process of applications submitted by the executive branch, spearheaded initially by five judicial branch lawyers who are national security experts and then by the judges, to ensure that the court's authorizations comport with what the applicable statutes authorize."
  • (2) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
  • (3) She knows you can’t force the opposition to submit to your point of view.
  • (4) The clinical course was observed in 50 patients while the remaining 10 were hospitalized and submitted to esophago-gastro-duodenoscopy and colonoscopy both before and after treatment for withdrawal of duodenal secretion and fragments of duodenojejunal and colonic mucosa biopsies.
  • (5) A series of 35 patients have been submitted to microsurgical callosotomy since February 1978, their age ranging from 6 to 42 years.
  • (6) The diagnosis of G-E reflux was confirmed in all by the acid reflux test; esophagitis was present in 55% of patients submitted to endoscopy; the Bernstein test was positive in 43%.
  • (7) In a 2012 study submitted to the UN, the Petersburg-based centre alleged that Roma and migrants were routinely subjected to police torture .
  • (8) It paves the way for Iran to get nuclear weapons.” Under the deal, Iran committed to reducing the number of its centrifuges by two-thirds, capping its level of uranium enrichment well below the level needed for bomb-grade material, reducing its enriched uranium stockpile from around 10,000kg to 300kg for 15 years, and submitting to international inspections to verify its compliance.
  • (9) An analysis has been made of 447 ovarian tumours submitted for histological examination to the Department of Pathology, Port Moresby General Hospital, for the period 1978-1982.
  • (10) In 50 patients submitted to surgical arterial repair of the lower limbs, we have employed 8,000 I.U.
  • (11) "The development control committee is frequently confronted with applications where developers have submitted viability assessment that show a development is only viable if affordable housing is greatly reduced often to a level of less than 20%," Hopkins said.
  • (12) This peptide yielded the same products as neurotensin when submitted to digestion by carboxypeptidase A or papain.
  • (13) Both the email and the form looked official, but when I submitted the form it refused to accept it.
  • (14) The CD4-specific mAbs submitted to the workshop reacted with the cells of all animals tested.
  • (15) The evolution of several mechanical parameters of left ventricular function was studied in 32 control subjects, 171 chronic chagasic and 60 primary dilated cardiomyopathy patients, which were submitted to an extensive invasive and non-invasive protocol.
  • (16) Methamphetamine abuse is increasing and methamphetamine is second only to alcohol as a positive finding in cases submitted to the San Diego Sheriff's Crime Laboratory.
  • (17) A system for detecting such cases was established through liaison with other hospital peer review committees or any physician or nurse who was privy to specific information and willing to submit it in writing.
  • (18) An additional patient with acute non-lymphatic leukemia had been submitted to chemotherapy for gastric cancer.
  • (19) Insurance claims for medical services submitted on behalf of a group of workers in the construction industry were collected over a 20-month period.
  • (20) We first present the results of serial serum total amylase, pancreatic isoamylase, lipase, and immunoreactive trypsin tests in nine patients during the week after their admission to the hospital with a diagnosis of acute pancreatitis, and then compare the serum total amylase, lipase, and immunoreactive trypsin levels in the initial serum submitted for amylase analysis from 100 patients because of the clinical suspicion of acute pancreatitis.

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