Commit and Number

• (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 property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals.
  • usage: "he had a number of chores to do"; "the number of parameters is small"; "the figure was about a thousand"
  • synonyms: figure
• A concept of quantity involving zero and units.
  • usage: "every number has a unique position in the sequence"
• A short theatrical performance that is part of a longer program.
  • usage: "he did his act three times every evening"; "she had a catchy little routine"; "it was one of the best numbers he ever did"
  • synonyms: act, routine, turn, bit
• The number is used in calling a particular telephone.
  • usage: "he has an unlisted number"
  • synonyms: phone number, telephone number
• A symbol used to represent a number.
  • usage: "he learned to write the numerals before he went to school"
  • synonyms: numeral
• One of a series published periodically.
  • usage: "she found an old issue of the magazine in her dentist's waiting room"
  • synonyms: issue
• A select company of people.
  • usage: "I hope to become one of their number before I die"
• A numeral or string of numerals that is used for identification.
  • usage: "she refused to give them her Social Security number"
  • synonyms: identification number
• A clothing measurement.
  • usage: "a number 13 shoe"
• The grammatical category for the forms of nouns and pronouns and verbs that are used depending on the number of entities involved (singular or dual or plural. )
  • usage: "in English the subject and the verb must agree in number"
• An item of merchandise offered for sale.
  • usage: "she preferred the black nylon number"; "this sweater is an all-wool number"

verb

• Add up in number or quantity.
  • usage: "The bills amounted to $2, 000"; "The bill came to $2, 000"
  • synonyms: total, add up, come, amount
• Give numbers to.
  • usage: "You should number the pages of the thesis"
• Enumerate.
  • usage: "We must number the names of the great mathematicians"
  • synonyms: list
• Put into a group.
  • usage: "The academy counts several Nobel Prize winners among its members"
  • synonyms: count
• Determine the number or amount of.
  • usage: "Can you count the books on your shelf"; "Count your change"
  • synonyms: count, enumerate, numerate
• Place a limit on the number of.
  • synonyms: keep down

• (n.) Numerousness; multitude.
• (n.) Quantity, regarded as made up of an aggregate of separate things.
• (n.) That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection of individuals; an assemblage made up of distinct things expressible by figures.
• (n.) That which is regulated by count; poetic measure, as divisions of time or number of syllables; hence, poetry, verse; -- chiefly used in the plural.
• (n.) To amount; to equal in number; to contain; to consist of; as, the army numbers fifty thousand.
• (n.) To count; to reckon; to ascertain the units of; to enumerate.
• (n.) A numeral; a word or character denoting a number; as, to put a number on a door.
• (n.) A collection of many individuals; a numerous assemblage; a multitude; many.
• (n.) The measure of the relation between quantities or things of the same kind; that abstract species of quantity which is capable of being expressed by figures; numerical value.
• (n.) The state or quality of being numerable or countable.
• (n.) To give or apply a number or numbers to; to assign the place of in a series by order of number; to designate the place of by a number or numeral; as, to number the houses in a street or the apartments in a building.
• (n.) The distinction of objects, as one or more than one (in some languages, as one or two or more than two), expressed (usually) by a difference in the form of a word; thus, the singular number and the plural number are the names of the forms of a word indicating the objects denoted or referred to by the word as one or as more than one.
• (n.) To reckon as one of a collection or multitude.
• (n.) That which admits of being counted or reckoned; a unit or an aggregate of units; a numerable aggregate or collection of individuals; an assemblage made up of distinct things expressible by figures.
• (n.) To reckon as one of a collection or multitude.
• (n.) To count; to reckon; to ascertain the units of; to enumerate.
• (n.) The distinction of objects, as one or more than one (in some languages, as one or two or more than two), expressed (usually) by a difference in the form of a word; thus, the singular number and the plural number are the names of the forms of a word indicating the objects denoted or referred to by the word as one or as more than one.
• (n.) The measure of the relation between quantities or things of the same kind; that abstract species of quantity which is capable of being expressed by figures; numerical value.
• (n.) That which is regulated by count; poetic measure, as divisions of time or number of syllables; hence, poetry, verse; -- chiefly used in the plural.
• (n.) A numeral; a word or character denoting a number; as, to put a number on a door.
• (n.) To give or apply a number or numbers to; to assign the place of in a series by order of number; to designate the place of by a number or numeral; as, to number the houses in a street or the apartments in a building.
• (n.) Quantity, regarded as made up of an aggregate of separate things.
• (n.) Numerousness; multitude.
• (n.) The state or quality of being numerable or countable.
• (n.) To amount; to equal in number; to contain; to consist of; as, the army numbers fifty thousand.
• (n.) A collection of many individuals; a numerous assemblage; a multitude; many.