Commit and Affect

• (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.

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"
  • 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.

noun

• The conscious subjective aspect of feeling or emotion.

verb

• Have an effect upon.
  • usage: "Will the new rules affect me"
  • synonyms: impact, bear upon, bear on, touch on, touch
• Act physically on; have an effect upon.
  • usage: "the medicine affects my heart rate"
• Connect closely and often incriminatingly.
  • usage: "This new ruling affects your business"
  • synonyms: involve, regard
• Make believe with the intent to deceive.
  • usage: "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache"
  • synonyms: feign, sham, pretend, dissemble
• Have an emotional or cognitive impact upon.
  • usage: "This child impressed me as unusually mature"; "This behavior struck me as odd"
  • synonyms: impress, move, strike

• (v.t.) To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.
• (v.t.) To love; to regard with affection.
• (v.t.) To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch.
• (v.t.) To assign; to appoint.
• (v.t.) To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance.
• (n.) Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition.
• (v.t.) To show a fondness for; to like to use or practice; to choose; hence, to frequent habitually.
• (v.t.) To dispose or incline.
• (v.t.) To tend to by affinity or disposition.
• (v.t.) To aim at; to aspire; to covet.
• (n.) The emotional complex associated with an idea or mental state. In hysteria, the affect is sometimes entirely dissociated, sometimes transferred to another than the original idea.