Commit and Concentrate

• (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

• The desired mineral that is left after impurities have been removed from mined ore.
  • synonyms: dressed ore
• A concentrated form of a foodstuff; the bulk is reduced by removing water.
• A concentrated example of something.
  • usage: "the concentrate of contemporary despair"

verb

• Make denser, stronger, or purer.
  • usage: "concentrate juice"
• Direct one's attention on something.
  • usage: "Please focus on your studies and not on your hobbies"
  • synonyms: focus, center, centre, pore, rivet
• Make central.
  • usage: "The Russian government centralized the distribution of food"
  • synonyms: centralize, centralise
• Make more concise.
  • usage: "condense the contents of a book into a summary"
  • synonyms: digest, condense
• Draw together or meet in one common center.
  • usage: "These groups concentrate in the inner cities"
• Compress or concentrate.
  • usage: "Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan"
  • synonyms: condense, contract
• Be cooked until very little liquid is left.
  • usage: "The sauce should reduce to one cup"
  • synonyms: boil down, reduce, decoct
• Cook until very little liquid is left.
  • usage: "The cook reduced the sauce by boiling it for a long time"
  • synonyms: reduce, boil down

• (v.t.) To bring to or direct toward, a common center; to unite more closely; to gather into one body, mass or force; to fix; as, to concentrate rays of light into a focus; to concentrate the attention.
• (v.i.) To approach or meet in a common center; to consolidate; as, population tends to concentrate in cities.
• (v.t.) To increase the strength and diminish the bulk of, as of a liquid or an ore; to intensify, by getting rid of useless material; to condense; as, to concentrate acid by evaporation; to concentrate by washing; -- opposed to dilute.