Commit and Contain

• (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

• Include or contain; have as a component.
  • usage: "A totally new idea is comprised in this paper"; "The record contains many old songs from the 1930's"
  • synonyms: incorporate, comprise
• Contain or hold; have within.
  • usage: "The jar carries wine"; "The canteen holds fresh water"; "This can contains water"
  • synonyms: hold, bear, carry
• Lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits.
  • usage: "moderate your alcohol intake"; "hold your tongue"; "hold your temper"; "control your anger"
  • synonyms: control, hold in, hold, check, curb, moderate
• Be divisible by.
  • usage: "24 contains 6"
• Be capable of holding or containing.
  • usage: "This box won't take all the items"; "The flask holds one gallon"
  • synonyms: take, hold
• Hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of.
  • usage: "Arrest the downward trend"; "Check the growth of communism in South East Asia"; "Contain the rebel movement"; "Turn back the tide of communism"
  • synonyms: check, turn back, arrest, stop, hold back

• (v.i.) To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.
• (v.t.) To have capacity for; to be able to hold; to hold; to be equivalent to; as, a bushel contains four pecks.
• (v.t.) To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold.
• (v.t.) To put constraint upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.