Commit and Collect

• (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 short prayer generally preceding the lesson in the Church of Rome or the Church of England.

verb

• Get or gather together.
  • usage: "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune"
  • synonyms: roll up, accumulate, pile up, amass, compile, hoard
• Call for and obtain payment of.
  • usage: "we collected over a million dollars in outstanding debts"; "he collected the rent"
  • synonyms: take in
• Assemble or get together.
  • usage: "gather some stones"; "pull your thoughts together"
  • synonyms: gather, garner, pull together
• Get or bring together.
  • usage: "accumulate evidence"
  • synonyms: pull in
• Gather or collect.
  • usage: "You can get the results on Monday"; "She picked up the children at the day care center"; "They pick up our trash twice a week"
  • synonyms: pick up, gather up, call for

adjective

• Payable by the recipient on delivery.
  • usage: "a collect call"; "the letter came collect"; "a COD parcel"
  • synonyms: cod

adverb

• Make a telephone call or mail a package so that the recipient pays.
  • usage: "call collect"; "send a package collect"

• (v.t.) A short, comprehensive prayer, adapted to a particular day, occasion or condition, and forming part of a liturgy.
• (v.i.) To assemble together; as, the people collected in a crowd; to accumulate; as, snow collects in banks.
• (v.i.) To infer; to conclude.
• (v.t.) To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises.
• (v.t.) To gather into one body or place; to assemble or bring together; to obtain by gathering.
• (v.t.) To demand and obtain payment of, as an account or other indebtedness; as, to collect taxes.