Commit and Apply

• (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

• Put into service; make work or employ for a particular purpose or for its inherent or natural purpose.
  • usage: "use your head"; "we only use Spanish at home"; "I can't use this tool"; "Apply a magnetic field here"; "This thinking was applied to many projects"; "How do you utilize this tool"; "I apply this rule to get good results"; "use the plastic bags to store the food"; "He doesn't know how to use a computer"
  • synonyms: use, utilize, utilise, employ
• Be pertinent or relevant or applicable.
  • usage: "The same laws apply to you"; "This theory holds for all irrational numbers"; "The same rules go for everyone"
  • synonyms: hold, go for
• Ask (for something. )
  • usage: "He applied for a leave of absence"; "She applied for college"; "apply for a job"
• Apply to a surface.
  • usage: "She applied paint to the back of the house"; "Put on make-up"
  • synonyms: put on
• Be applicable to; as to an analysis.
  • usage: "This theory lends itself well to our new data"
  • synonyms: lend oneself
• Give or convey physically.
  • usage: "She gave him First Aid"; "I gave him a punch in the nose"
  • synonyms: give
• Avail oneself to.
  • usage: "apply a principle"; "practice a religion"; "use care when going down the stairs"; "use your common sense"; "practice non-violent resistance"
  • synonyms: practice, use
• Ensure observance of laws and rules.
  • usage: "Apply the rules to everyone";
  • synonyms: enforce, implement
• Refer (a word or name) to a person or thing.
  • usage: "He applied this racial slur to me"
• Apply oneself to.
  • usage: "Please apply yourself to your homework"

• (v.i.) To make request; to have recourse with a view to gain something; to make application. (to); to solicit; as, to apply to a friend for information.
• (v.t.) To visit.
• (v.t.) To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose or in a particular case; to appropriate; to devote; as, to apply money to the payment of a debt.
• (v.t.) To fix closely; to engage and employ diligently or with attention; to attach; to incline.
• (v.i.) To ply; to move.
• (v.t.) To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of the body.
• (v.t.) To make use of, declare or pronounce, as suitable, fitting or relative; as, to apply the testimony to the case; to apply an epithet to a person.
• (v.t.) To busy; to keep at work; to ply.
• (v.t.) To betake; to address; to refer; -- used reflexively.
• (v.i.) To apply or address one's self; to give application; to attend closely (to).
• (v.i.) To suit; to agree; to have some connection, agreement or analogy; as, this argument applies well to the case.
• (v.t.) To direct or address.