Commit and Operate

• (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.

verb

• Direct or control; projects, businesses, etc..
  • usage: "She is running a relief operation in the Sudan"
  • synonyms: run
• Perform as expected when applied.
  • usage: "The washing machine won't go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run well"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore"
  • synonyms: function, work, go, run
• Handle and cause to function.
  • usage: "do not operate machinery after imbibing alcohol"; "control the lever"
  • synonyms: control
• Perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense.
  • synonyms: manoeuver, maneuver, manoeuvre
• Happen.
  • usage: "What is going on in the minds of the people"
• Keep engaged.
  • usage: "engaged the gears"
  • synonyms: engage, mesh, lock
• Perform surgery on.
  • usage: "The doctors operated on the patient but failed to save his life"
  • synonyms: operate on

• (v.t.) To produce, as an effect; to cause.
• (v.i.) To perform some manual act upon a human body in a methodical manner, and usually with instruments, with a view to restore soundness or health, as in amputation, lithotomy, etc.
• (v.i.) To act or produce effect on the mind; to exert moral power or influence.
• (v.i.) To produce an appropriate physical effect; to issue in the result designed by nature; especially (Med.), to take appropriate effect on the human system.
• (v.i.) To perform a work or labor; to exert power or strengh, physical or mechanical; to act.
• (v.t.) To put into or to continue in, operation or activity; to work; as, to operate a machine.
• (v.i.) To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.