Commit and Find

• (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

• A productive insight.
  • synonyms: discovery, breakthrough
• The act of discovering something.
  • synonyms: discovery, uncovering

verb

• Come upon, as if by accident; meet with.
  • usage: "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"
  • synonyms: happen, chance, bump, encounter
• Discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of.
  • usage: "She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water"; "We found traces of lead in the paint"
  • synonyms: detect, observe, discover, notice
• Come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost.
  • usage: "Did you find your glasses"; "I cannot find my gloves"
  • synonyms: regain
• 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: determine, find out, ascertain
• Come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or indefinite grounds.
  • usage: "I feel that he doesn't like me"; "I find him to be obnoxious"; "I found the movie rather entertaining"
  • synonyms: feel
• Perceive or be contemporaneous with.
  • usage: "We found Republicans winning the offices"; "You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"; "The 1960's saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"; "I want to see results"
  • synonyms: witness, see
• Get something or somebody for a specific purpose.
  • usage: "I found this gadget that will serve as a bottle opener"; "I got hold of these tools to fix our plumbing"; "The chairman got hold of a secretary on Friday night to type the urgent letter"
  • synonyms: line up, get hold, come up
• Make a discovery, make a new finding.
  • usage: "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle"
  • synonyms: discover
• Make a discovery.
  • usage: "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover"
  • synonyms: discover
• Obtain through effort or management.
  • usage: "She found the time and energy to take care of her aging parents"; "We found the money to send our sons to college"
• Decide on and make a declaration about.
  • usage: "find someone guilty"
  • synonyms: rule
• Receive a specified treatment (abstract. )
  • usage: "These aspects of civilization do not find expression or receive an interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I got nothing but trouble for my good intentions"
  • synonyms: receive, get, obtain, incur
• Perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place.
  • usage: "I found myself in a difficult situation"; "When he woke up, he found himself in a hospital room"
• Get or find back; recover the use of.
  • usage: "She regained control of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly"
  • synonyms: recover, retrieve, regain
• Succeed in reaching; arrive at.
  • usage: "The arrow found its mark"
• Accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and situation.
  • usage: "My son went to Berkeley to find himself"
  • synonyms: find oneself

• (v.t.) To discover by sounding; as, to find bottom.
• (v.t.) To provide for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food for workemen; he finds his nephew in money.
• (v.t.) To learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings; to detect; to feel.
• (v.t.) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
• (v.t.) To meet with or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person.
• (v.t.) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end; as, water is found to be a compound substance.
• (v.t.) To come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost.
• (v.i.) To determine an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court; as, the jury find for the plaintiff.
• (v.t.) To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish; as, to find a verdict; to find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person.
• (n.) Anything found; a discovery of anything valuable; especially, a deposit, discovered by archaeologists, of objects of prehistoric or unknown origin.
• (v.t.) To gain, as the object of desire or effort; as, to find leisure; to find means.