Commit and Compact

• (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 small cosmetics case with a mirror; to be carried in a woman's purse.
  • synonyms: powder compact
• A signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action.
  • synonyms: covenant, concordat
• A small and economical car.
  • synonyms: compact car

verb

• Have the property of being packable or of compacting easily.
  • usage: "This powder compacts easily"; "Such odd-shaped items do not pack well"
  • synonyms: pack
• Compress into a wad.
  • usage: "wad paper into the box"
  • synonyms: pack, bundle, wad
• Make more compact by or as if by pressing.
  • usage: "compress the data"
  • synonyms: compress, pack together
• Squeeze or press together.
  • usage: "she compressed her lips"; "the spasm contracted the muscle"
  • synonyms: compress, constrict, squeeze, contract, press

adjective

• Closely and firmly united or packed together.
  • usage: "compact soil"; "compact clusters of flowers"
• Having a short and solid form or stature.
  • usage: "a wrestler of compact build"; "he was tall and heavyset"; "stocky legs"; "a thickset young man"
  • synonyms: heavyset, stocky, thick, thickset
• Briefly giving the gist of something.
  • usage: "a short and compendious book"; "a compact style is brief and pithy"; "succinct comparisons"; "a summary formulation of a wide-ranging subject"
  • synonyms: compendious, succinct, summary

• (v.t.) To thrust, drive or press closely together; to join firmly; to consolidate; to make close; -- as the parts which compose a body.
• (p.p.&a) Closely or firmly united, as the particles of solid bodies; firm; close; solid; dense.
• (p.p.&a) Composed or made; -- with of.
• (n.) An agreement between parties; a covenant or contract.
• (p.p.&a) Brief; close; pithy; not diffuse; not verbose; as, a compact discourse.
• (v.t.) To unite or connect firmly, as in a system.
• (p.p.&a) Joined or held together; leagued; confederated.