Commit and Hook

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.

hook

A catch for locking a door.
A sharp curve or crook; a shape resembling a hook.
- synonyms: crotchet
Anything that serves as an enticement.
- synonyms: bait, come-on, lure, sweetener
A mechanical device that is curved or bent to suspend or hold or pull something.
- synonyms: claw
A curved or bent implement for suspending or pulling something.
A golf shot that curves to the left for a right-handed golfer.
- usage: "he took lessons to cure his hooking"
- synonyms: draw, hooking
A short swinging punch delivered from the side with the elbow bent.
A basketball shot made over the head with the hand that is farther from the basket.
- synonyms: hook shot

Fasten with a hook.
Rip off; ask an unreasonable price.
- synonyms: overcharge, soak, surcharge, gazump, fleece, plume, pluck, rob
Make a piece of needlework by interlocking and looping thread with a hooked needle.
- usage: "She sat there crocheting all day"
- synonyms: crochet
Hit a ball and put a spin on it so that it travels to the left.
Take by theft.
- usage: "Someone snitched my wallet"
- synonyms: snitch, thieve, cop, knock off, glom
Make off with belongings of others.
- synonyms: pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, sneak, filch, nobble, lift
Hit with a hook.
- usage: "His opponent hooked him badly"
Catch with a hook.
- usage: "hook a fish"
To cause (someone or oneself) to become dependent (on something, especially a narcotic drug.
- synonyms: addict
Secure with the foot.
- usage: "hook the ball"
Entice and trap.
- usage: "The car salesman had snared three potential customers"
- synonyms: snare
Approach with an offer of sexual favors.
- usage: "he was solicited by a prostitute"; "The young man was caught soliciting in the park"
- synonyms: solicit, accost

(n.) That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
(n.) A piece of metal or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding or sustaining anything; as, a hook for catching fish; a hook for fastening a gate; a boat hook, etc.
(n.) An implement for cutting grass or grain; a sickle; an instrument for cutting or lopping; a billhook.
(n.) A snare; a trap.
(v.t.) To steal.
(v.t.) To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.
(n.) A field sown two years in succession.
(n.) See Eccentric, and V-hook.
(v.i.) To bend; to curve as a hook.
(v.t.) To catch or fasten with a hook or hooks; to seize, capture or hold, as with a hook, especially with a disguised or baited hook; hence, to secure by allurement or artifice; to entrap; to catch; as, to hook a dress; to hook a trout.
(n.) The projecting points of the thigh bones of cattle; -- called also hook bones.
(n.) A spit or narrow cape of sand or gravel turned landward at the outer end; as, Sandy Hook.
(v.i.) To move or go with a sudden turn;.
(v.i.) to make off; to clear out; -- often with it.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary