Commit and Launch

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.

launch

Set up or found.
- usage: "She set up a literacy program"
- synonyms: establish, set up, found
Propel with force.
- usage: "launch the space shuttle"; "Launch a ship"
Launch for the first time; launch on a maiden voyage.
- usage: "launch a ship"
Begin with vigor.
- usage: "He launched into a long diatribe"; "She plunged into a dangerous adventure"
- synonyms: plunge
Get going; give impetus to.
- usage: "launch a career"; "Her actions set in motion a complicated judicial process"
- synonyms: set in motion
Smoothen the surface of.
- usage: "launch plaster"

(v.i.) To send out; to start (one) on a career; to set going; to give a start to (something); to put in operation; as, to launch a son in the world; to launch a business project or enterprise.
(v.i.) To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat; as, to launch a ship.
(n.) The movement of a vessel from land into the water; especially, the sliding on ways from the stocks on which it is built.
(v.i.) To strike with or as with, a lance; to pierce.
(v.i.) To throw, as a lance or dart; to hurl; to let fly.
(n.) The act of launching.
(n.) The boat of the largest size belonging to a ship of war; also, an open boat of any size driven by steam, naphtha, electricity or the like.
(v.i.) To move with force and swiftness like a sliding from the stocks into the water; to plunge; to make a beginning; as, to launch into the current of a stream; to launch into an argument or discussion; to launch into lavish expenditures; -- often with out.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary