Promisename

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  A female given name from English.

promisenoun/ˈpɹɒmɪs/

• 1

  An oath or affirmation; a vow.

  • When I make a promise, I always stick to it.
  • I asked him not to, and we all heard his promise that he wouldn't.
• 2

  lawA transaction between two persons whereby the first person undertakes in the future to render some service or gift to the second person or devotes something valuable now and here to their use.

  • He purſued Andrew Houſtoun upon his promiſe, to give him the like Sallary for the next year, and in abſence obtained him to be holden as confeſt and Decerned.
• 3

  Something promised.

  • That jewelry was a promise to me.
• 4

  Reason to expect improvement or success; potential.

  • His grade are poor, but I see promise in him.
  • Your claim has little promise in court.
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  computingengineeringmathematicsA placeholder object representing the eventual result of an asynchronous operation.

  • You can often use observables instead of promises to deliver values asynchronously.
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  obsoleteBestowal or fulfillment of what is promised.

  • It is time they receive their promise.
  • He […] commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father.

promiseverb/ˈpɹɒmɪs/

• 1

  To commit to (some action or outcome), or to assure (a person) of such commitment; to make an oath or vow.

  • "You think that I'll take anything." "I know you will, sweet." … "There wasn't going to be any of that. You promised there wouldn't be." "Well, there is now," she said sweetly.
  • Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.
• 2

  To give grounds for expectation, especially of something good.

  • The clouds promise rain.
  • I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me. I look upon notoriety with the same indifference as on the buttons on a man's shirt-front, or the crest on his note-paper.