Commit and Can

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.

can

Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
- synonyms: tin, tin can
The quantity contained in a can.
- synonyms: canful
A buoy with a round bottom and conical top.
- synonyms: can buoy
The fleshy part of the human body that you sit on.
- usage: "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing"
- synonyms: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, rump, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass
A plumbing fixture for defecation and urination.
- synonyms: toilet, commode, crapper, pot, potty, stool, throne
A room or building equipped with one or more toilets.
- synonyms: toilet, lavatory, lav, john, privy, bathroom

Preserve in a can or tin.
- usage: "tinned foods are not very tasty"
- synonyms: tin, put up
Terminate the employment of; discharge from an office or position.
- usage: "The boss fired his secretary today"; "The company terminated 25% of its workers"
- synonyms: displace, fire, give notice, dismiss, give the axe, send away, sack, force out, give the sack, terminate

(n.) A drinking cup; a vessel for holding liquids.
an obs. form of began, imp. & p. p. of Begin, sometimes used in old poetry. [See Gan.].
(v.t.&i.) To know; to understand.
(v.t.&i.) To be able to do; to have power or influence.
(v.t.&i.) To be able; -- followed by an infinitive without to; as, I can go, but do not wish to.
(n.) A vessel or case of tinned iron or of sheet metal, of various forms, but usually cylindrical; as, a can of tomatoes; an oil can; a milk can.
(v.t.) To preserve by putting in sealed cans.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Can is a masculine given name