Commit and Grind

• (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 insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious.
  • synonyms: swot, nerd, wonk, dweeb
• The grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground.
  • usage: "a coarse grind of coffee"
• Hard monotonous routine work.
  • synonyms: drudgery, plodding, donkeywork
• The act of grinding to a powder or dust.
  • synonyms: mill, pulverization, pulverisation

verb

• Press or grind with a crushing noise.
  • synonyms: crunch, cranch, craunch
• Make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together.
  • usage: "grate one's teeth in anger"
  • synonyms: grate
• Work hard.
  • usage: "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"
  • synonyms: labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, drudge, dig, moil
• Dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced.
• Reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading.
  • usage: "grind the spices in a mortar"; "mash the garlic"
  • synonyms: mash, crunch, bray, comminute
• Created by grinding.
  • usage: "grind designs into the glass bowl"
• Shape or form by grinding.
  • usage: "grind lenses for glasses and cameras"

• (v.i.) To perform the operation of grinding something; to turn the millstones.
• (v.i.) To perform hard aud distasteful service; to drudge; to study hard, as for an examination.
• (v.t.) To oppress by severe exactions; to harass.
• (v.i.) To become ground or pulverized by friction; as, this corn grinds well.
• (v.t.) To wear down, polish or sharpen, by friction; to make smooth, sharp or pointed; to whet, as a knife or drill; to rub against one another, as teeth, etc.
• (v.i.) To become polished or sharpened by friction; as, glass grinds smooth; steel grinds to a sharp edge.
• (n.) The act of reducing to powder or of sharpening, by friction.
• (v.t.) To study hard for examination.
• (n.) A hard student; a dig.
• (v.t.) To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones.
• (n.) Any severe continuous work or occupation; especially, hard and uninteresting study.
• (v.i.) To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.