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# submission

«submission» in Mova's school dictionary: **something you hand in to be judged or checked, like a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (submission, submissions)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A submission is something you hand in to be judged or checked, like a piece of homework, a competition entry or a form. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/submission/#m1)

2) Submission is the act of handing something in. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/submission/#m2)

3) Submission is giving in or obeying someone more powerful, as in "beaten into submission". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/submission/#m3)

4) (formal, law) A submission is an argument or statement given to a judge or committee. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/submission/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In school, submission of homework or projects has a deadline, and many online systems have a "submit" button. In competitions, entries are submissions. In stories and history, a defeated army is forced into submission. In some churches, submission to God's will means humble trust. Phrases: "submission date", "deadline for submissions", "in submission", "into submission".

### examples

- The deadline for submission of your project is Friday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/submission/#x1)
- The poetry competition received two hundred submissions. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/submission/#x2)
- My submission to the art contest was a painting of a fox. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/submission/#x3)
- The wrestler forced his opponent into submission. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/submission/#x4)
- The dog lay on its back in submission. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/submission/#x5)
- (formal) The lawyer made a submission to the judge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/submission/#x6)
- (church) The monks lived in humble submission to God. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/submission/#x7)

### note

Verb: submit, submitted, submitting (double t). Adjective: submissive (too ready to obey). Countable for things handed in; uncountable for giving in. "Submit" in online forms means "send".

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «submission» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/submission/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.