Commit and Lean

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.

lean

The property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical.
- usage: "the tower had a pronounced tilt"; "the ship developed a list to starboard"; "he walked with a heavy inclination to the right"
- synonyms: tilt, list, inclination, leaning

To incline or bend from a vertical position.
- usage: "She leaned over the banister"
- synonyms: tilt, tip, slant, angle
Cause to lean or incline.
- usage: "He leaned his rifle against the wall"
Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be inclined.
- usage: "She tends to be nervous before her lectures"; "These dresses run small"; "He inclined to corpulence"
- synonyms: tend, be given, incline, run
Rely on for support.
- usage: "We can lean on this man"
Cause to lean to the side.
- usage: "Erosion listed the old tree"
- synonyms: list

Lacking excess flesh."you can't be too rich or too thin"; "Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look-Shakespeare
- synonyms: thin
Lacking in mineral content or combustible material.
- usage: "lean ore"; "lean fuel"
Containing little excess.
- usage: "a lean budget"; "a skimpy allowance"
- synonyms: skimpy
Not profitable or prosperous.
- usage: "a lean year"

(v.i.) Wanting flesh; destitute of or deficient in fat; not plump; meager; thin; lank; as, a lean body; a lean cattle.
(v.i.) To cause to lean; to incline; to support or rest.
(n.) Unremunerative copy or work.
(v.i.) To rest or rely, for support, comfort, and the like; -- with on, upon or against.
(v.t.) To conceal.
(v.i.) Wanting fullness, richness, sufficiency or productiveness; deficient in quality or contents; slender; scant; barren; bare; mean; -- used literally and figuratively; as, the lean harvest; a lean purse; a lean discourse; lean wages.
(v.i.) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; -- opposed to fat; as, lean copy, matter or type.
(v.i.) To incline, deviate or bend, from a vertical position; to be in a position thus inclining or deviating; as, she leaned out at the window; a leaning column.
(v.i.) To incline in opinion or desire; to conform in conduct; -- with to, toward, etc.
(n.) That part of flesh which consist principally of muscle without the fat.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

LÉan is either masculine or feminine given name