These are the meanings of the letters MONOMICT when you unscramble them.
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Commit (v. i.)
To sin; esp., to be incontinent.
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Commit (v. t.)
To confound.
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Commit (v. t.)
To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
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Commit (v. t.)
To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
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Commit (v. t.)
To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
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Commit (v. t.)
To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course.
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Commit (v. t.)
To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
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Common (n.)
An inclosed or uninclosed tract of ground for pleasure, for pasturage, etc., the use of which belongs to the public; or to a number of persons.
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Common (n.)
The people; the community.
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Common (n.)
The right of taking a profit in the land of another, in common either with the owner or with other persons; -- so called from the community of interest which arises between the claimant of the right and the owner of the soil, or between the claimants and other commoners entitled to the same right.
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Common (v.)
Belonging or relating equally, or similarly, to more than one; as, you and I have a common interest in the property.
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Common (v.)
Belonging to or shared by, affecting or serving, all the members of a class, considered together; general; public; as, properties common to all plants; the common schools; the Book of Common Prayer.
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Common (v.)
Given to habits of lewdness; prostitute.
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Common (v.)
Not distinguished or exceptional; inconspicuous; ordinary; plebeian; -- often in a depreciatory sense.
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Common (v.)
Often met with; usual; frequent; customary.
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Common (v.)
Profane; polluted.
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Common (v. i.)
To board together; to eat at a table in common.
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Common (v. i.)
To converse together; to discourse; to confer.
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Common (v. i.)
To have a joint right with others in common ground.
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Common (v. i.)
To participate.
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Motion (n.)
A proposal or suggestion looking to action or progress; esp., a formal proposal made in a deliberative assembly; as, a motion to adjourn.
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Motion (n.)
A puppet show or puppet.
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Motion (n.)
An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant.
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Motion (n.)
Change in the relative position of the parts of anything; action of a machine with respect to the relative movement of its parts.
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Motion (n.)
Change of pitch in successive sounds, whether in the same part or in groups of parts.
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Motion (n.)
Direction of movement; course; tendency; as, the motion of the planets is from west to east.
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Motion (n.)
Movement of the mind, desires, or passions; mental act, or impulse to any action; internal activity.
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Motion (n.)
Power of, or capacity for, motion.
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Motion (n.)
The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or involuntary; -- opposed to rest.
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Motion (v. i.)
To make a significant movement or gesture, as with the hand; as, to motion to one to take a seat.
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Motion (v. i.)
To make proposal; to offer plans.
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Motion (v. t.)
To direct or invite by a motion, as of the hand or head; as, to motion one to a seat.
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Motion (v. t.)
To propose; to move.