Commit and Rest

• (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

• Something left after other parts have been taken away.
  • usage: "there was no remainder"; "he threw away the rest"; "he took what he wanted and I got the balance"
  • synonyms: remainder, balance, residual, residue, residuum
• Freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility. )
  • usage: "took his repose by the swimming pool"
  • synonyms: ease, repose, relaxation
• A pause for relaxation.
  • usage: "people actually accomplish more when they take time for short rests"
  • synonyms: respite, relief, rest period
• A state of inaction.
  • usage: "a body will continue in a state of rest until acted upon"
• Euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb. )
  • usage: "she was laid to rest beside her husband"; "they had to put their family pet to sleep"
  • synonyms: eternal rest, sleep, eternal sleep, quietus
• A support on which things can be put.
  • usage: "the gun was steadied on a special rest"
• A musical notation indicating a silence of a specified duration.

verb

• Not move; be in a resting position.
• Take a short break from one's activities in order to relax.
  • synonyms: breathe, catch one's breath, take a breather
• Give a rest to.
  • usage: "He rested his bad leg"; "Rest the dogs for a moment"
• Have a place in relation to something else.
  • usage: "The fate of Bosnia lies in the hands of the West"; "The responsibility rests with the Allies"
  • synonyms: lie
• Be at rest.
• Stay the same; remain in a certain state.
  • usage: "The dress remained wet after repeated attempts to dry it"; "rest assured"; "stay alone"; "He remained unmoved by her tears"; "The bad weather continued for another week"
  • synonyms: stay, remain
• Be inherent or innate in;.
  • synonyms: reside, repose
• Put something in a resting position, as for support or steadying.
  • usage: "Rest your head on my shoulder"
• Sit, as on a branch.
  • usage: "The birds perched high in the tree"
  • synonyms: perch, roost
• Rest on or as if on a pillow.
  • usage: "pillow your head"
  • synonyms: pillow
• Be inactive, refrain from acting.
  • usage: "The committee is resting over the summer"

• (n.) A state of quiet or repose; a cessation from motion or labor; tranquillity; as, rest from mental exertion; rest of body or mind.
• (n.) To stand firm; to be fixed; to be supported; as, a column rests on its pedestal.
• (n.) To cease from action or motion, especially from action which has caused weariness; to desist from labor or exertion.
• (n.) Sleep; slumber; hence, poetically, death.
• (n.) That which is left or which remains after the separation of a part, either in fact or in contemplation; remainder; residue.
• (v.t.) To arrest.
• (n.) To be free from whanever wearies or disturbs; to be quiet or still.
• (n.) That on which anything rests or leans for support; as, a rest in a lathe, for supporting the cutting tool or steadying the work.
• (n.) A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities.
• (n.) A projection from the right side of the cuirass, serving to support the lance.
• (n.) A place where one may rest, either temporarily, as in an inn or permanently, as, in an abode.
• (n.) To sleep; to slumber; hence, poetically, to be dead.
• (n.) Hence, freedom from everything which wearies or disturbs; peace; security.
• (n.) To lean in confidence; to trust; to rely; to repose without anxiety; as, to rest on a man's promise.
• (n.) The striking of a balance at regular intervals in a running account.
• (n.) A set or game at tennis.
• (n.) Those not included in a proposition or description; the remainder; others.
• (v.t.) To lay or place at rest; to quiet.
• (n.) To lie; to repose; to recline; to lan; as, to rest on a couch.
• (n.) Silence in music or in one of its parts; the name of the character that stands for such silence. They are named as notes are, whole, half, quarter,etc.
• (v.i.) To be left; to remain; to continue to be.
• (v.t.) To place, as on a support; to cause to lean.
• (n.) A short pause in reading verse; a c/sura.
• (n.) To be satisfied; to acquiesce.