Commit and Fold

• (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

• An angular or rounded shape made by folding.
  • usage: "a fold in the napkin"; "a crease in his trousers"; "a plication on her blouse"; "a flexure of the colon"; "a bend of his elbow"
  • synonyms: crease, plication, flexure, crimp, bend
• A group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church.
  • synonyms: congregation, faithful
• A geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock.
  • synonyms: folding
• A group of sheep or goats.
  • synonyms: flock
• A folded part (as in skin or muscle.
  • synonyms: plica
• A pen for sheep.
  • synonyms: sheepfold, sheep pen, sheepcote
• The act of folding.
  • usage: "he gave the napkins a double fold"
  • synonyms: folding

verb

• Bend or lay so that one part covers the other.
  • usage: "fold up the newspaper"; "turn up your collar"
  • synonyms: fold up, turn up
• Incorporate a food ingredient into a mixture by repeatedly turning it over without stirring or beating.
  • usage: "Fold the egg whites into the batter"
• Cease to operate or cause to cease operating.
  • usage: "The owners decided to move and to close the factory"; "My business closes every night at 8 P. M."; "close up the shop"
  • synonyms: close up, close, shut down, close down
• Confine in a fold, like sheep.
  • synonyms: pen up
• Become folded or folded up.
  • usage: "The bed folds in a jiffy"
  • synonyms: fold up

• (v.t.) To inclose within folds or plaitings; to envelop; to infold; to clasp; to embrace.
• (n.) A flock of sheep; figuratively, the Church or a church; as, Christ's fold.
• (v.t.) To confine in a fold, as sheep.
• (v.) That which is folded together or which infolds or envelops; embrace.
• (v.t.) To double or lay together, as the arms or the hands; as, he folds his arms in despair.
• (n.) A boundary; a limit.
• (n.) An inclosure for sheep; a sheep pen.
• (v.i.) To confine sheep in a fold.
• (v.) Times or repetitions; -- used with numerals, chiefly in composition, to denote multiplication or increase in a geometrical ratio, the doubling, tripling, etc., of anything; as, fourfold, four times, increased in a quadruple ratio, multiplied by four.
• (v.i.) To become folded, plaited or doubled; to close over another of the same kind; to double together; as, the leaves of the door fold.
• (v.t.) To cover or wrap up; to conceal.
• (v.t.) To lap or lay in plaits or folds; to lay one part over another part of; to double; as, to fold cloth; to fold a letter.
• (v.) A doubling,esp. of any flexible substance; a part laid over on another part; a plait; a plication.