Commit and Bridge

commit

(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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

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.

Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.

bridge

A structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc..
- synonyms: span
A circuit consisting of two branches (4 arms arranged in a diamond configuration) across which a meter is connected.
- synonyms: bridge circuit
Something resembling a bridge in form or function.
- usage: "his letters provided a bridge across the centuries"
The hard ridge that forms the upper part of the nose.
- usage: "her glasses left marks on the bridge of her nose"
Any of various card games based on whist for four players.
A wooden support that holds the strings up.
A denture anchored to teeth on either side of missing teeth.
- synonyms: bridgework
The link between two lenses; rests on the nose.
- synonyms: nosepiece
An upper deck where a ship is steered and the captain stands.
- synonyms: bridge deck

(n.) A low wall or vertical partition in the fire chamber of a furnace, for deflecting flame, etc.; -- usually called a bridge wall.
(n.) Anything supported at the ends, which serves to keep some other thing from resting upon the object spanned, as in engraving, watchmaking, etc. or which forms a platform or staging over which something passes or is conveyed.
(n.) A device to measure the resistance of a wire or other conductor forming part of an electric circuit.
(v.t.) To build a bridge or bridges on or over; as, to bridge a river.
(n.) A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick or iron, erected over a river or other water course or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a passageway from one bank to the other.
(n.) The small arch or bar at right angles to the strings of a violin, guitar, etc., serving of raise them and transmit their vibrations to the body of the instrument.
(v.t.) To open or make a passage, as by a bridge.
(v.t.) To find a way of getting over, as a difficulty; -- generally with over.
(n.) A card game resembling whist.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Bridge is a masculine given name