- (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.
Commit and Adjust
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
verb
- 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"
- Make an investment.
- usage: "Put money into bonds"
- Engage in or perform.
- usage: "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
- synonyms: practice
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(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.
verb
- Alter or regulate so as to achieve accuracy or conform to a standard.
- usage: "Adjust the clock, please"; "correct the alignment of the front wheels"
- Place in a line or arrange so as to be parallel or straight.
- usage: "align the car with the curb"; "align the sheets of paper on the table"
- Adapt or conform oneself to new or different conditions.
- usage: "We must adjust to the bad economic situation"
- Make correspondent or conformable.
- usage: "Adjust your eyes to the darkness"
- Decide how much is to be paid on an insurance claim. .
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (v.t.) To make exact; to fit; to make correspondent or conformable; to bring into proper relations; as, to adjust a garment to the body or things to a standard.
- (v.t.) To put in order; to regulate or reduce to system.
- (v.t.) To settle or bring to a satisfactory state, so that parties are agreed in the result; as, to adjust accounts; the differences are adjusted.
- (v.t.) To bring to a true relative position, as the parts of an instrument; to regulate for use; as, to adjust a telescope or microscope.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
(DoD) An order to the observer or spotter to initiate an adjustment on a designated target.
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.