Commit and Compose

• (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.

verb

• Form the substance of.
  • usage: "Greed and ambition composed his personality"
• Write music.
  • usage: "Beethoven composed nine symphonies"
  • synonyms: write
• Produce a literary work.
  • usage: "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels"
  • synonyms: write, pen, indite
• Put together out of existing material.
  • usage: "compile a list"
  • synonyms: compile
• Calm (someone, especially oneself); make quiet.
  • usage: "She had to compose herself before she could reply to this terrible insult"
• Make up plans or basic details for.
  • usage: "frame a policy"
  • synonyms: frame, draw up

• (v.t.) To free from agitation or disturbance; to tranquilize; to soothe; to calm; to quiet.
• (v.t.) To construct by mental labor; to design and execute or put together, in a manner involving the adaptation of forms of expression to ideas or to the laws of harmony or proportion; as, to compose a sentence, a sermon, a symphony or a picture.
• (v.i.) To come to terms.
• (v.t.) To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion.
• (v.t.) To form the substance of or part of the substance of; to constitute.
• (v.t.) To arrange (types) in a composing stick in order for printing; to set (type).
• (v.t.) To dispose in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition; to adjust; to regulate.