Commit and Establish

• (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

• Set up or found.
  • usage: "She set up a literacy program"
  • synonyms: set up, found, launch
• Set up or lay the groundwork for.
  • usage: "establish a new department"
  • synonyms: found, plant, constitute, institute
• Establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment.
  • usage: "The experiment demonstrated the instability of the compound"; "The mathematician showed the validity of the conjecture"
  • synonyms: prove, demonstrate, show, shew
• Institute, enact, or establish.
  • usage: "make laws"
  • synonyms: lay down, make
• Bring about.
  • usage: "The trompe l'oeil-illusion establishes depth"
  • synonyms: give
• Place.
  • usage: "Her manager had set her up at the Ritz"
  • synonyms: install, instal, set up
• Build or establish something abstract.
  • usage: "build a reputation"
  • synonyms: build
• Use as a basis for; found on.
  • usage: "base a claim on some observation"
  • synonyms: base, ground, found

• (a.) To appoint or constitute for permanence, as officers, laws, regulations, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
• (a.) To set up in business; to place advantageously in a fixed condition; -- used reflexively; as, he established himself in a place; the enemy established themselves in the citadel.
• (a.) To secure public recognition in favor of; to prove and cause to be accepted as true; as, to establish a fact, usage, principle, opinion, doctrine, etc.
• (a.) To originate and secure the permanent existence of; to found; to institute; to create and regulate; -- said of a colony, a state or other institutions.
• (a.) To make stable or firm; to fix immovably or firmly; to set (a thing) in a place and make it stable there; to settle; to confirm.