Commit and Address

commit

(v.t.) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
(v.t.) To confound.
(v.i.) To sin; especially, to be incontinent.
(v.t.) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
(v.t.) To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
(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.
(v.t.) To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin or fault.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
- usage: "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
- synonyms: perpetrate, pull
Give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause.
- usage: "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"
- synonyms: give, dedicate, consecrate, devote
Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
- usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
- synonyms: institutionalize, institutionalise, send, charge
Confer a trust upon.
- usage: "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"
- synonyms: entrust, intrust, trust, confide
Make an investment.
- usage: "Put money into bonds"
- synonyms: invest, put, place
Engage in or perform.
- usage: "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
- synonyms: practice

(DoD) The process of committing one or more air interceptors or surface-to-air missiles for interception against a target track.

Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.

address

Computer science. ( the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored)
- synonyms: computer address, reference
The place where a person or organization can be found or communicated with.
The act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience.
- usage: "he listened to an address on minor Roman poets"
- synonyms: speech
The manner of speaking to another individual.
- usage: "he failed in his manner of address to the captain"
A sign in front of a house or business carrying the conventional form by which its location is described.
Written directions for finding some location; written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location.
- synonyms: destination, name and address
The stance assumed by a golfer in preparation for hitting a golf ball.
Social skill.
- synonyms: savoir-faire

Speak to.
- usage: "He addressed the crowd outside the window"
- synonyms: turn to
Give a speech to.
- usage: "The chairman addressed the board of trustees"
- synonyms: speak
Put an address on (an envelope.
- synonyms: direct
Direct a question at someone.
Address or apply oneself to something, direct one's efforts towards something, such as a question.
Greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name.
- usage: "He always addresses me with `Sir'"; "Call me Mister"; "She calls him by first name"
- synonyms: call
Access or locate by address.
Act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression.
- usage: "This book deals with incest"; "The course covered all of Western Civilization"; "The new book treats the history of China"
- synonyms: cover, treat, handle, plow, deal
Speak to someone.
- synonyms: accost, come up to
Adjust and aim (a golf ball) at in preparation of hitting. .

(v.) To aim; to direct.
(v.) To prepare or make ready.
(v.) Reflexively: To prepare one's self; to apply one's skill or energies (to some object); to betake.
(v.) To clothe or array; to dress.
(v.) To direct, as words (to any one or any thing); to make, as a speech, petition, etc. (to any one, an audience).
(v.) To direct speech to; to make a communication to, whether spoken or written; to apply to by words, as by a speech, petition, etc., to speak to; to accost.
(v.) To direct in writing, as a letter; to superscribe or to direct and transmit; as, he addressed a letter.
(v.) To make suit to as a lover; to court; to woo.
(v.) To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore.
(v.i.) To prepare one's self.
(v.i.) To direct speech.
(v.t.) Act of preparing one's self.
(v.t.) Act of addressing one's self to a person; verbal application.
(v.t.) A formal communication, either written or spoken; a discourse; a speech; a formal application to any one; a petition; a formal statement on some subject or special occasion; as, an address of thanks, an address to the voters.
(v.t.) Direction or superscription of a letter or the name, title, and place of residence of the person addressed.
(v.t.) Manner of speaking to another; delivery; as, a man of pleasing or insinuating address.
(v.t.) Attention in the way one's addresses to a lady.
(v.t.) Skill; skillful management; dexterity; adroitness.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary