Commit and Claim

• (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

• An assertion of a right (as to money or property. )
  • usage: "his claim asked for damages"
• An assertion that something is true or factual.
  • usage: "his claim that he was innocent"; "evidence contradicted the government's claims"
• Demand for something as rightful or due.
  • usage: "they struck in support of their claim for a shorter work day"
• An informal right to something.
  • usage: "his claim on her attentions"; "his title to fame"
  • synonyms: title
• An established or recognized right.
  • usage: "a strong legal claim to the property"; "he had no documents confirming his title to his father's estate"; "he staked his claim"
  • synonyms: title
• (n.) ()
  • synonyms: call

verb

• Assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing.
  • usage: "He claimed that he killed the burglar"
• Demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to.
  • usage: "He claimed his suitcases at the airline counter"; "Mr. Smith claims special tax exemptions because he is a foreign resident"
  • synonyms: lay claim, arrogate
• Ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example.
  • usage: "They claimed on the maximum allowable amount"
• Lay claim to; as of an idea.
  • usage: "She took credit for the whole idea"
  • synonyms: take
• Take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs.
  • usage: "the accident claimed three lives"; "The hard work took its toll on her"
  • synonyms: take, exact

• (v./.) To assert; to maintain.
• (v./.) To proclaim.
• (n.) A right to claim or demand something; a title to any debt, privilege or other thing in possession of another; also, a title to anything which another should give or concede to or confer on, the claimant.
• (n.) The thing claimed or demanded; that (as land) to which any one intends to establish a right; as a settler's claim; a miner's claim.
• (v./.) To ask for or seek to obtain, by virtue of authority, right or supposed right; to challenge as a right; to demand as due.
• (v./.) To call or name.
• (n.) A demand of a right or supposed right; a calling on another for something due or supposed to be due; an assertion of a right or fact.
• (n.) A loud call.
• (v.i.) To be entitled to anything; to deduce a right or title; to have a claim.

In health care, is an itemized statement of healthcare services and their costs provided by a hospital, physician's office, or other provider facility.' CLAIM's are submitted to the insurer or managed care plan by either the plan member or the provider for payment of the costs incurred. In general law, a claim is: 1) to make a demand for money, for property, or for enforcement of a right provided by law. 2) the making of a demand (asserting a claim) for money due, for property, from damages or for enforcement of a right. If such a demand is not honored, it may result in a lawsuit. In order to enforce a right against a government agency (ranging for damages from a negligent bus driver to a shortage in payroll) a claim must be filed first. If rejected or ignored by the government, a lawsuit may be filed.