Commit and Lag

• (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

• The act of slowing down or falling behind.
  • synonyms: slowdown, retardation
• The time between one event, process, or period and another.
  • usage: "meanwhile the socialists are running the government"
  • synonyms: interim, meantime, meanwhile
• One of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket.
  • synonyms: stave

verb

• Hang (back) or fall (behind. in movement, progress, development, etc.)
  • synonyms: dawdle, fall back, fall behind
• Lock up or confine, in or as in a jail.
  • usage: "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"
  • synonyms: imprison, incarcerate, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remand
• Throw or pitch at a mark, as with coins.
• Cover with lagging to prevent heat loss.
  • usage: "lag pipes"

• (n.) A stave of a cask, drum, etc.; especially (Mach.), one of the narrow boards or staves forming the covering of a cylindrical object, as a boiler or the cylinder of a carding machine or a steam engine.
• (v.t.) To cover, as the cylinder of a steam engine, with lags. See Lag, n., 4.
• (a.) Last made; hence, made of refuse; inferior.
• (n.) One who lags; that which comes in last.
• (a.) Coming tardily after or behind; slow; tardy.
• (v.t.) To transport for crime.
• (v.i.) To walk or more slowly; to stay or fall behind; to linger or loiter.
• (n.) See Graylag.
• (n.) The fag-end; the rump; hence, the lowest class.
• (n.) One transported for a crime.
• (v.t.) To cause to lag; to slacken.
• (n.) The amount of retardation of anything, as of a valve in a steam engine, in opening or closing.
• (a.) Last; long-delayed; -- obsolete, except in the phrase lag end.
• (n.) The failing behind or retardation of one phenomenon with respect to another to which it is closely related; as, the lag of magnetization compared with the magnetizing force (hysteresis); the lag of the current in an alternating circuit behind the impressed electro-motive force which produced it.

Payment of a financial obligation later than is expected or required, as in lead and' Lag'. Also, the number of periods that an dependent variable in a regression model is "held back" in order to predict the dependent variable.