Commit and Determine

commit

(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.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

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.

Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.

determine

Establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study.
- usage: "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize"
- synonyms: find, find out, ascertain
Shape or influence; give direction to.
- usage: "experience often determines ability"; "mold public opinion"
- synonyms: shape, mold, influence, regulate
Fix conclusively or authoritatively.
- usage: "set the rules"
- synonyms: set
Decide upon or fix definitely.
- usage: "fix the variables"; "specify the parameters"
- synonyms: specify, set, define, fix, limit
Reach, make, or come to a decision about something.
- usage: "We finally decided after lengthy deliberations"
- synonyms: decide, make up one's mind
Fix in scope; fix the boundaries of.
- usage: "the tree determines the border of the property"
Settle conclusively; come to terms.
- usage: "We finally settled the argument"
- synonyms: settle, square off, square up
Find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort.
- usage: "I want to see whether she speaks French"; "See whether it works"; "find out if he speaks Russian"; "Check whether the train leaves on time"
- synonyms: check, find out, see, ascertain, watch, learn

(v.t.) To bring to a conclusion, as a question or controversy; to settle authoritative or judicial sentence; to decide; as, the court has determined the cause.
(v.t.) To ascertain definitely; to find out the specific character or name of; to assign to its true place in a system; as, to determine an unknown or a newly discovered plant or its name.
(v.t.) To define or limit by adding a differentia.
(v.t.) To fix the boundaries of; to mark off and separate.
(v.t.) To fix the course of; to impel and direct; -- with a remoter object preceded by to; as, another's will determined me to this course.
(v.t.) To set bounds to; to fix the determination of; to limit; to bound; to bring to an end; to finish.
(v.t.) To ascertain the presence, quantity or amount of; as, to determine the parallax; to determine the salt in sea water.
(v.t.) To fix the form or character of; to shape; to prescribe imperatively; to regulate; to settle.
(v.i.) To come to a decision; to decide; to resolve; -- often with on.
(v.t.) To resolve on; to have a fixed intention of; also, to cause to come to a conclusion or decision; to lead; as, this determined him to go immediately.
(v.i.) To come to an end; to end; to terminate.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary