Commit and Bend

• (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

• A circular segment of a curve.
  • usage: "a bend in the road"; "a crook in the path"
  • synonyms: crook, twist, turn
• Movement that causes the formation of a curve.
  • synonyms: bending
• Curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc..
  • synonyms: curve
• An angular or rounded shape made by folding.
  • usage: "a fold in the napkin"; "a crease in his trousers"; "a plication on her blouse"; "a flexure of the colon"; "a bend of his elbow"
  • synonyms: fold, crease, plication, flexure, crimp
• A town in central Oregon at the eastern foot of the Cascade Range.
• Diagonal line traversing a shield from the upper right corner to the lower left.
  • synonyms: bend dexter

verb

• Form a curve.
  • usage: "The stick does not bend"
  • synonyms: flex
• Change direction.
  • usage: "The road bends"
• Cause (a plastic object) to assume a crooked or angular form.
  • usage: "bend the rod"; "twist the dough into a braid"; "the strong man could turn an iron bar"
  • synonyms: flex, deform, twist, turn
• Bend one's back forward from the waist on down.
  • usage: "he crouched down"; "She bowed before the Queen"; "The young man stooped to pick up the girl's purse"
  • synonyms: crouch, stoop, bow
• Turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest.
  • synonyms: deflect, turn away
• Bend a joint.
  • usage: "flex your wrists"; "bend your knees"
  • synonyms: flex

• (n.) same as caisson disease. Usually referred to as the bends.
• (v.i.) To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow.
• (n.) A band.
• (n.) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
• (n.) A knot by which one rope is fastened to another or to an anchor, spar or post.
• (v.t.) To apply closely or with interest; to direct.
• (v.i.) To be inclined; to be directed.
• (n.) One of the honorable ordinaries, containing a third or a fifth part of the field. It crosses the field diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base.
• (n.) A turn or deflection from a straight line or from the proper direction or normal position; a curve; a crook; as, a slight bend of the body; a bend in a road.
• (v.i.) To jut over; to overhang.
• (v.t.) To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee.
• (v.t.) To turn toward some certain point; to direct; to incline.
• (v.t.) To fasten, as one rope to another or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor.
• (v.i.) To bow in prayer or in token of submission.
• (v.t.) To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue.
• (n.) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
• (n.) The best quality of sole leather; a butt. See Butt.