Commit and Grant

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.

grant

Any monetary aid.
The act of providing a subsidy.
- synonyms: subsidization, subsidisation
Law) a transfer of property by deed of conveyance.
- synonyms: assignment
Scottish painter; cousin of Lytton Strachey and member of the Bloomsbury Group (1885-1978.
- synonyms: Duncan Grant, Duncan James Corrow Grant
United States actor (born in England) who was the elegant leading man in many films (1904-1986.
- synonyms: Cary Grant
18th President of the United States; commander of the Union armies in the American Civil War (1822-1885.
- synonyms: Ulysses Grant, Ulysses S. Grant, Ulysses Simpson Grant, Hiram Ulysses Grant, President Grant
A contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business.
- usage: "he got the beer concession at the ball park"
- synonyms: concession
A right or privilege that has been granted.

Let have.
- usage: "grant permission"; "Mandela was allowed few visitors in prison"
- synonyms: allow
Give as judged due or on the basis of merit.
- usage: "the referee awarded a free kick to the team"; "the jury awarded a million dollars to the plaintiff";"Funds are granted to qualified researchers"
- synonyms: award
Be willing to concede.
- usage: "I grant you this much"
- synonyms: concede, yield
Allow to have.
- usage: "grant a privilege"
- synonyms: accord, allot
Bestow, especially officially.
- usage: "grant a degree"; "give a divorce"; "This bill grants us new rights"
- synonyms: give
Give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another.
- synonyms: concede, yield, cede
Transfer by deed.
- usage: "grant land"
- synonyms: deed over

(v.t.) The yielding or admission of something in dispute.
(v.i.) To assent; to consent.
(v.t.) A transfer of property by deed or writing; especially, au appropriation or conveyance made by the government; as, a grant of land or of money; also, the deed or writing by which the transfer is made.
(v.t.) The act of granting; a bestowing or conferring; concession; allowance; permission.
(v.t.) To admit as true what is not yet satisfactorily proved; to yield belief to; to allow; to yield; to concede.
(v.t.) To bestow or confer, with or without compensation, particularly in answer to prayer or request; to give.
(v.t.) The thing or property granted; a gift; a boon.
(v.t.) To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Grant is a masculine given name

Scottish, English: From a Scottish surname which was derived from Norman French grand meaning "great, large"
Scottish, Celtic/Gaelic: Great
English: Bestow or great; tall. The American General and president Ulysses S. Grant. Surname

GRANT is the act of giving title to another. May also be used as a noun, meaning the instrument that transfers title.