Commit and Design

• (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 act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan. )
  • usage: "he contributed to the design of a new instrument"
  • synonyms: designing
• An arrangement scheme.
  • usage: "the awkward design of the keyboard made operation difficult"; "it was an excellent design for living"; "a plan for seating guests"
  • synonyms: plan
• Something intended as a guide for making something else.
  • usage: "a blueprint for a house"; "a pattern for a skirt"
  • synonyms: blueprint, pattern
• A decorative or artistic work.
  • usage: "the coach had a design on the doors"
  • synonyms: pattern, figure
• An anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions.
  • usage: "his intent was to provide a new translation"; "good intentions are not enough"; "it was created with the conscious aim of answering immediate needs"; "he made no secret of his designs"
  • synonyms: purpose, intent, intention, aim
• A preliminary sketch indicating the plan for something.
  • usage: "the design of a building"
• The creation of something in the mind.
  • synonyms: invention, innovation, excogitation, conception

verb

• Make or work out a plan for; devise.
  • usage: "They contrived to murder their boss"; "design a new sales strategy"; "plan an attack"
  • synonyms: plan, project, contrive
• Plan something for a specific role or purpose or effect.
  • usage: "This room is not designed for work"
• Create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner.
  • usage: "Chanel designed the famous suit"
• Make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form.
  • usage: "design a better mousetrap"; "plan the new wing of the museum"
  • synonyms: plan
• Create designs.
  • usage: "Dupont designs for the house of Chanel"
• Conceive or fashion in the mind; invent.
  • usage: "She designed a good excuse for not attending classes that day"
• Intend or have as a purpose.
  • usage: "She designed to go far in the world of business"

• (v.i.) To form a design or designs; to plan.
• (n.) A preliminary sketch; an outline or pattern of the main features of something to be executed, as of a picture, a building or a decoration; a delineation; a plan.
• (n.) Specifically, intention or purpose as revealed or inferred from the adaptation of means to an end; as, the argument from design.
• (n.) To create or produce, as a work of art; to form a plan or scheme of; to form in idea; to invent; to project; to lay out in the mind; as, a man designs an essay, a poem, a statue or a cathedral.
• (n.) A plan or scheme formed in the mind of something to be done; preliminary conception; idea intended to be expressed in a visible form or carried into action; intention; purpose; -- often used in a bad sense for evil intention or purpose; scheme; plot.
• (n.) To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace out; to draw.
• (n.) To intend or purpose; -- usually with for before the remote object, but sometimes with to.
• (n.) The invention and conduct of the subject; the disposition of every part, and the general order of the whole.
• (n.) To mark out and exhibit; to designate; to indicate; to show; to point out; to appoint.
• (n.) The realization of an inventive or decorative plan; especially, a work of decorative art considered as a new creation; conception or plan shown in completed work; as, this carved panel is a fine design or of a fine design.