Commit and Limit

• (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 greatest possible degree of something.
  • usage: "what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior"; "to the limit of his ability"
  • synonyms: bound, boundary
• Final or latest limiting point.
  • synonyms: terminus ad quem, terminal point
• As far as something can go.
• The boundary of a specific area.
  • synonyms: demarcation, demarcation line
• The mathematical value toward which a function goes as the independent variable approaches infinity.
  • synonyms: limit point, point of accumulation
• The greatest amount of something that is possible or allowed.
  • usage: "there are limits on the amount you can bet"; "it is growing rapidly with no limitation in sight"
  • synonyms: limitation

verb

• Place limits on (extent or access. )
  • usage: "restrict the use of this parking lot"; "limit the time you can spend with your friends"
  • synonyms: restrict, restrain, trammel, bound, confine, throttle
• (v.) ()
  • synonyms: circumscribe, confine
• Decide upon or fix definitely.
  • usage: "fix the variables"; "specify the parameters"
  • synonyms: specify, set, determine, define, fix

• (v.t.) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic; a differentia.
• (v.t.) A determinate quantity, to which a variable one continually approaches, and may differ from it by less than any given difference, but to which, under the law of variation, the variable can never become exactly equivalent.
• (v.i.) To beg or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region; as, a limiting friar.
• (v.t.) The space or thing defined by limits.
• (v.t.) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
• (v.t.) To apply a limit to or set a limit for; to terminate, circumscribe or restrict, by a limit or limits; as, to limit the acreage of a crop; to limit the issue of paper money; to limit one's ambitions or aspirations; to limit the meaning of a word.
• (v.t.) A restriction; a check; a curb; a hindrance.
• (v.t.) That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains or confines; the bound, border or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a country; the limits of human knowledge or endeavor.

LIMIT is the maximum daily allowable amount a futures price may advance or decline in any one day's trading session. Limits are also placed on the number of posi-tions a participant may hold in the market.