Commit and Save

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.

save

Sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring. (
- usage: "the goalie made a brilliant save"; "the relief pitcher got credit for a save"

Save from ruin, destruction, or harm.
- synonyms: salvage, salve, relieve
To keep up and reserve for personal or special use.
- usage: "She saved the old family photographs in a drawer"
- synonyms: preserve
Bring into safety.
- usage: "We pulled through most of the victims of the bomb attack"
- synonyms: carry through, pull through, bring through
Spend less; buy at a reduced price.
Accumulate money for future use.
- usage: "He saves half his salary"
- synonyms: lay aside, save up
Make unnecessary an expenditure or effort.
- usage: "This will save money"; "I'll save you the trouble"; "This will save you a lot of time"
- synonyms: make unnecessary
Save from sins.
- synonyms: deliver, redeem
Refrain from harming.
- synonyms: spare
Spend sparingly, avoid the waste of.
- usage: "This move will save money"; "The less fortunate will have to economize now"
- synonyms: economize, economise
Retain rights to.
- usage: "keep my job for me while I give birth"; "keep my seat, please"; "keep open the possibility of a merger"
- synonyms: keep open, hold open, keep
Record data on a computer.
- usage: "boot-up instructions are written on the hard disk"
- synonyms: write

(n.) The herb sage or salvia.
(a.) To keep from being spent or lost; to secure from waste or expenditure; to lay up; to reserve.
(conj.) Except; unless.
(a.) To hinder from doing, suffering or happening; to obviate the necessity of; to prevent; to spare.
(a.) To hold possession or use of; to escape loss of.
(a.) Specifically, to deliver from sin and its penalty; to rescue from a state of condemnation and spiritual death, and bring into a state of spiritual life.
(v.i.) To avoid unnecessary expense or expenditure; to prevent waste; to be economical.
(a.) Except; excepting; not including; leaving out; deducting; reserving; saving.
(a.) To make safe; to procure the safety of; to preserve from injury, destruction or evil of any kind; to rescue from impending danger; as, to save a house from the flames.
(a.) To rescue from something undesirable or hurtful; to prevent from doing something; to spare.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

To put aside a portion of income, deferring its consumption until a future date.