Commit and Cause

• (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

• Events that provide the generative force that is the origin of something.
  • usage: "they are trying to determine the cause of the crash"
• A justification for something existing or happening.
  • usage: "he had no cause to complain"; "they had good reason to rejoice"
  • synonyms: reason, grounds
• A series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end.
  • usage: "he supported populist campaigns"; "they worked in the cause of world peace"; "the team was ready for a drive toward the pennant"; "the movement to end slavery"; "contributed to the war effort"
  • synonyms: campaign, crusade, drive, movement, effort
• Any entity that produces an effect or is responsible for events or results.
  • synonyms: causal agent, causal agency
• A comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy.
  • usage: "the family brought suit against the landlord"
  • synonyms: lawsuit, suit, case, causa

verb

• Give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally.
  • usage: "cause a commotion"; "make a stir"; "cause an accident"
  • synonyms: do, make
• Cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner.
  • usage: "The ads induced me to buy a VCR"; "My children finally got me to buy a computer"; "My wife made me buy a new sofa"
  • synonyms: induce, stimulate, have, get, make

• (v.) Sake; interest; advantage.
• (v.) A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his claim or what he regards as his right; case; ground of action.
• (v.) That which is the occasion of an action or state; ground; reason; motive; as, cause for rejoicing.
• (v.) That which produces or effects a result; that from which anything proceeds, and without which it would not exist.
• (n.) To effect as an agent; to produce; to be the occasion of; to bring about; to bring into existence; to make; -- usually followed by an infinitive, sometimes by that with a finite verb.
• (v.) The side of a question, which is espoused, advocated, and upheld by a person or party; a principle which is advocated; that which a person or party seeks to attain.
• (v.i.) To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make excuse.
• (v.) Any subject of discussion or debate; matter; question; affair in general.
• (conj.) Abbreviation of Because.