Commit and Allow

• (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.

verb

• Make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen.
  • usage: "This permits the water to rush in"; "This sealed door won't allow the water come into the basement"; "This will permit the rain to run off"
  • synonyms: let, permit
• Consent to, give permission.
  • usage: "She permitted her son to visit her estranged husband"; "I won't let the police search her basement"; "I cannot allow you to see your exam"
  • synonyms: permit, let, countenance
• Let have.
  • usage: "grant permission"; "Mandela was allowed few visitors in prison"
  • synonyms: grant
• Give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause.
  • usage: "I will earmark this money for your research"; "She sets aside time for meditation every day"
  • synonyms: appropriate, earmark, set aside, reserve
• Make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain.
  • usage: "This leaves no room for improvement"; "The evidence allows only one conclusion"; "allow for mistakes"; "leave lots of time for the trip"; "This procedure provides for lots of leeway"
  • synonyms: leave, allow for, provide
• Allow or plan for a certain possibility; concede the truth or validity of something.
  • usage: "I allow for this possibility"; "The seamstress planned for 5% shrinkage after the first wash"
  • synonyms: take into account
• Afford possibility.
  • usage: "This problem admits of no solution"; "This short story allows of several different interpretations"
  • synonyms: admit
• Allow the other (baseball) team to score.
  • usage: "give up a run"
  • synonyms: give up
• Grant as a discount or in exchange.
  • usage: "The camera store owner allowed me $50 on my old camera"
• Allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting.
  • usage: "We don't allow dogs here"; "Children are not permitted beyond this point"; "We cannot tolerate smoking in the hospital"
  • synonyms: permit, tolerate

• (v.t.) To sanction; to invest; to intrust.
• (v.t.) To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction.
• (v.i.) To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement.
• (v.t.) To own or acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion; as, to allow a right; to allow a claim; to allow the truth of a proposition.
• (v.t.) To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct; as, to allow a sum for leakage.
• (v.t.) To grant license to; to permit; to consent to; as, to allow a son to be absent.
• (v.t.) To grant, give, admit, accord, afford or yield; to let one have; as, to allow a servant his liberty; to allow a free passage; to allow one day for rest.
• (v.t.) To like; to be suited or pleased with.