Commit and Resolve

• (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 trait of being resolute.
  • usage: "his resoluteness carried him through the battle"; "it was his unshakeable resolution to finish the work"
  • synonyms: resoluteness, firmness, firmness of purpose, resolution
• A formal expression by a meeting; agreed to by a vote.
  • synonyms: resolution, declaration

verb

• Bring to an end; settle conclusively.
  • usage: "The case was decided"; "The judge decided the case in favor of the plaintiff"; "The father adjudicated when the sons were quarreling over their inheritance"
  • synonyms: decide, settle, adjudicate
• Reach a conclusion after a discussion or deliberation.
  • synonyms: conclude
• Reach a decision.
  • usage: "he resolved never to drink again"
  • synonyms: purpose
• Understand the meaning of.
  • usage: "The question concerning the meaning of life cannot be answered"
  • synonyms: answer
• Make clearly visible.
  • usage: "can this image be resolved"
• Find the solution.
  • usage: "solve an equation"; "solve for x"
  • synonyms: solve
• Cause to go into a solution.
  • usage: "The recipe says that we should dissolve a cup of sugar in two cups of water"
  • synonyms: dissolve, break up

• (v.i.) To let the tones (as of a discord) follow their several tendencies, resulting in a concord.
• (v.i.) To be separated into its component parts or distinct principles; to undergo resolution.
• (v.i.) To change or convert by resolution or formal vote; -- used only reflexively; as, the house resolved itself into a committee of the whole.
• (v.i.) To melt; to dissolve; to become fluid.
• (v.i.) To form a purpose; to make a decision; especially, to determine after reflection; as, to resolve on a better course of life.
• (v.i.) To dispere or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumor.
• (v.i.) To be settled in opinion; to be convinced.
• (v.i.) To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; -- said of complex ideas or obscure questions; to make clear or certain; to free from doubt; to disentangle; to unravel; to explain; hence, to clear up or dispel, as doubt; as, to resolve a riddle.
• (v.i.) To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.
• (n.) That which has been resolved on or determined; decisive conclusion; fixed purpose; determination; also, legal or official determination; a legislative declaration; a resolution.
• (v.i.) To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle; as, he was resolved by an unexpected event.
• (v.i.) To solve, as a problem, by enumerating the several things to be done, in order to obtain what is required; to find the answer to or the result of.
• (v.i.) To express, as an opinion or determination, by resolution and vote; to declare or decide by a formal vote; -- followed by a clause; as, the house resolved (or, it was resolved by the house) that no money should be apropriated (or, to appropriate no money).
• (n.) The act of resolving or making clear; resolution; solution.
• (v.i.) To relax; to lay at ease.
• (v.i.) To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; -- said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt or dissolve.