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Commit and Locate

verb

  • Perform an act, usually with a negative connotation.
    • usage: "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"
  • 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"
  • Cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution.
    • usage: "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"
  • Confer a trust upon.
    • usage: "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"
  • Make an investment.
    • usage: "Put money into bonds"
  • Engage in or perform.
    • usage: "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"
(DoD) The process of committing one or more air interceptors or surface-to-air missiles for interception against a target track.

verb

  • Discover the location of; determine the place of; find by searching or examining.
    • usage: "Can you locate your cousins in the Midwest"; "My search turned up nothing"
  • Determine or indicate the place, site, or limits of, as if by an instrument or by a survey.
    • usage: "Our sense of sight enables us to locate objects in space"; "Locate the boundaries of the property"
  • Assign a location to.
    • usage: "The company located some of their agents in Los Angeles"
  • Take up residence and become established.
    • usage: "The immigrants settled in the Midwest"
  • (v.i.) To place one's self; to take up one's residence; to settle.
  • (v.t.) To designate the site or place of; to define the limits of; as, to locate a public building; to locate a mining claim; to locate (the land granted by) a land warrant.
  • (v.t.) To place; to set in a particular spot or position.