Commit and Record

• (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

• Anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events.
  • usage: "the film provided a valuable record of stage techniques"
• Sound recording consisting of a disk with a continuous groove; used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracks in the groove.
  • synonyms: phonograph record, phonograph recording, disk, disc, platter
• The number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had.
  • usage: "at 9-0 they have the best record in their league"
• The sum of recognized accomplishments.
  • usage: "the lawyer has a good record"; "the track record shows that he will be a good president"
  • synonyms: track record
• A compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone.
  • usage: "Al Smith used to say, `Let's look at the record'"; "his name is in all the record books"
  • synonyms: record book, book
• An extreme attainment; the best (or worst) performance ever attested (as in a sport. )
  • usage: "he tied the Olympic record"; "coffee production last year broke all previous records"; "Chicago set the homicide record"
• A document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction.
  • usage: "they could find no record of the purchase"
• A list of crimes for which an accused person has been previously convicted.
  • usage: "he ruled that the criminal record of the defendant could not be disclosed to the court"; "the prostitute had a record a mile long"
  • synonyms: criminal record

verb

• Make a record of; set down in permanent form.
  • synonyms: enter, put down
• Register electronically.
  • usage: "They recorded her singing"
  • synonyms: tape
• Indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments.
  • usage: "The thermometer showed thirteen degrees below zero"; "The gauge read `empty'"
  • synonyms: read, register, show
• Be aware of.
  • usage: "Did you register any change when I pressed the button"
  • synonyms: register
• Be or provide a memorial to a person or an event.
  • usage: "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"; "We memorialized the Dead"
  • synonyms: commemorate, memorialize, memorialise, immortalize, immortalise

• (v.t.) That which has been or might be, recorded; the known facts in the course, progress or duration of anything, as in the life of a public man; as, a politician with a good or a bad record.
• (v.t.) Testimony; witness; attestation.
• (v.t.) A writing by which some act or event or a number of acts or events, is recorded; a register; as, a record of the acts of the Hebrew kings; a record of the variations of temperature during a certain time; a family record.
• (v.t.) An authentic official copy of a document which has been entered in a book or deposited in the keeping of some officer designated by law.
• (v.t.) To preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to printing, to inscription or the like; to make note of; to write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic evidence of; to register; to enroll; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to record historical events.
• (v.i.) To sing or repeat a tune.
• (v.t.) To repeat; to recite; to sing or play.
• (v.t.) An official contemporaneous writing by which the acts of some public body or public officer, are recorded; as, a record of city ordinances; the records of the receiver of taxes.
• (v.i.) To reflect; to ponder.
• (v.t.) To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate.
• (v.t.) An official contemporaneous memorandum stating the proceedings of a court of justice; a judicial record.
• (v.t.) That which serves to perpetuate a knowledge of acts or events; a monument; a memorial.
• (v.t.) That which has been publicly achieved in any kind of competitive sport as recorded in some authoritative manner, as the time made by a winning horse in a race.
• (v.t.) The various legal papers used in a case, together with memoranda of the proceedings of the court; as, it is not permissible to allege facts not in the record.