Commit and Provide

• (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

• Give something useful or necessary to.
  • usage: "We provided the room with an electrical heater"
  • synonyms: supply, render, furnish
• Give what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance.
  • usage: "The hostess provided lunch for all the guests"
  • synonyms: supply, ply, cater
• Determine (what is to happen in certain contingencies), especially by including a proviso condition or stipulation.
  • usage: "The will provides that each child should receive half of the money"; "The Constitution provides for the right to free speech"
• Mount or put up.
  • usage: "put up a good fight"; "offer resistance"
  • synonyms: put up, offer
• Make a possibility or provide opportunity for; permit to be attainable or cause to remain.
  • usage: "This leaves no room for improvement"; "The evidence allows only one conclusion"; "allow for mistakes"; "leave lots of time for the trip"; "This procedure provides for lots of leeway"
  • synonyms: leave, allow for, allow
• Supply means of subsistence; earn a living.
  • usage: "He provides for his large family by working three jobs"; "Women nowadays not only take care of the household but also bring home the bacon"
  • synonyms: bring home the bacon
• Take measures in preparation for.
  • usage: "provide for the proper care of the passengers on the cruise ship"

• (v.t.) To supply; to afford; to contribute.
• (v.t.) To furnish; to supply; -- formerly followed by of, now by with.
• (v.t.) To look out for in advance; to procure beforehand; to get, collect or make ready for future use; to prepare.
• (v.t.) To establish as a previous condition; to stipulate; as, the contract provides that the work be well done.
• (v.i.) To procure supplies or means in advance; to take measures beforehand in view of an expected or a possible future need, especially a danger or an evil; -- followed by against or for; as, to provide against the inclemency of the weather; to provide for the education of a child.
• (v.t.) To foresee.
• (v.t.) To appoint to an ecclesiastical benefice before it is vacant. See Provisor.
• (v.i.) To stipulate previously; to condition; as, the agreement provides for an early completion of the work.