Commit and Mail

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.

mail

The bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service.
The system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office.
- usage: "the mail handles billions of items every day"; "he works for the United States mail service"; "in England they call mail `the post'"
- synonyms: mail service, postal service, post
A conveyance that transports the letters and packages that are conveyed by the postal system.
Any particular collection of letters or packages that is delivered.
- usage: "your mail is on the table"; "is there any post for me"; "she was opening her post"
- synonyms: post
Middle Ages. ( flexible armor made of interlinked metal rings)
- synonyms: chain mail, ring mail, chain armor, chain armour, ring armor, ring armour

Send via the postal service.
- usage: "I'll mail you the check tomorrow"
- synonyms: get off
Cause to be directed or transmitted to another place.
- usage: "send me your latest results"; "I'll mail you the paper when it's written"
- synonyms: post, send

(v.t.) To deliver into the custody of the postoffice officials or place in a government letter box, for transmission by mail; to post; as, to mail a letter.
(n.) A flexible fabric made of metal rings interlinked. It was used especially for defensive armor.
(n.) That which comes in the mail; letters, etc., received through the post office.
(n.) A bag; a wallet.
(v.t.) To pinion.
(n.) The bag or bags with the letters, papers, papers or other matter contained therein, conveyed under public authority from one post office to another; the whole system of appliances used by government in the conveyance and delivery of mail matter.
(n.) A small piece of money; especially, an English silver half-penny of the time of Henry V.
(n.) Rent; tribute.
(n.) A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.
(v.t.) To arm with mail.
(n.) Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc.
(n.) A spot.
(n.) Hence generally, armor or any defensive covering.
(n.) A trunk, box or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary