Commit and Plug

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.

plug

Blockage consisting of an object designed to fill a hole tightly.
- synonyms: stopper, stopple
A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
- synonyms: chew, chaw, cud, quid, wad
Blatant or sensational promotion.
- synonyms: ballyhoo, hoopla, hype
Electrical device that fits into the cylinder head of an internal-combustion engine and ignites the gas by means of an electric spark.
- synonyms: spark plug, sparking plug
An electrical device with two or three pins that is inserted in a socket to make an electrical connection.
- synonyms: male plug
An upright hydrant for drawing water to use in fighting a fire.
- synonyms: fireplug, fire hydrant
An old or over-worked horse.
- synonyms: hack, jade, nag

Fill or close tightly with or as if with a plug.
- usage: "plug the hole"; "stop up the leak"
- synonyms: stop up, secure
Persist in working hard.
- usage: "Students must plug away at this problem"
- synonyms: plug away
Deliver a quick blow to.
- usage: "he punched me in the stomach"
- synonyms: punch
Make a plug for; praise the qualities or in order to sell or promote.
Insert a plug into.
- usage: "plug the wall"
Insert as a plug.
- usage: "She plugged a cork in the wine bottle"

(n.) A worthless horse.
(n.) A flat oblong cake of pressed tobacco.
(v.t.) To stop with a plug; to make tight by stopping a hole.
(n.) A block of wood let into a wall, to afford a hold for nails.
(n.) A high, tapering silk hat.
(n.) Any piece of wood, metal or other substance used to stop or fill a hole; a stopple.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

Plug is a variable that handles financial slack in the financial plan.