Commit and Grip

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.

grip

The act of grasping.
- usage: "he released his clasp on my arm"; "he has a strong grip for an old man"; "she kept a firm hold on the railing"
- synonyms: clasp, clench, clutch, clutches, grasp, hold
The appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it.
- usage: "he grabbed the hammer by the handle"; "it was an old briefcase but it still had a good grip"
- synonyms: handle, handgrip, hold
A portable rectangular container for carrying clothes.
- usage: "he carried his small bag onto the plane with him"
- synonyms: bag, traveling bag, travelling bag, suitcase
The friction between a body and the surface on which it moves (as between an automobile tire and the road.
- synonyms: traction, adhesive friction
Worker who moves the camera around while a film or television show is being made.
An intellectual hold or understanding.
- usage: "a good grip on French history"; "they kept a firm grip on the two top priorities"; "he was in the grip of a powerful emotion"; "a terrible power had her in its grasp"
- synonyms: grasp
A flat wire hairpin whose prongs press tightly together; used to hold bobbed hair in place.
- usage: "in Britain they call a bobby pin a grip"
- synonyms: bobby pin, hairgrip

Hold fast or firmly.
- usage: "He gripped the steering wheel"
To grip or seize, as in a wrestling match.
- usage: "the two men grappled with each other for several minutes"
- synonyms: grapple
To render motionless, as with a fixed stare or by arousing terror or awe.
- usage: "The snake charmer fascinates the cobra"
- synonyms: fascinate, transfix, spellbind

(v.t.) To give a grip to; to grasp; to gripe.
(v.t.) A peculiar mode of clasping the hand, by which members of a secret association recognize or greet, one another; as, a masonic grip.
(v.t.) A device for grasping or holding fast to something.
(n.) The griffin.
(v.t.) To trench; to drain.
(n.) A small ditch or furrow.
(v.t.) An energetic or tenacious grasp; a holding fast; strength in grasping.
(v.t.) That by which anything is grasped; a handle or gripe; as, the grip of a sword.
(n.) A gripsack; a hand bag; a satchel.
(n.) Specif., an apparatus attached to a car for clutching a traction cable.
(n.) The influenza; grippe.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary