Commit and Scribe

• (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

• French playwright (1791-1861.
  • synonyms: Augustin Eugene Scribe
• Informal terms for journalists.
  • synonyms: scribbler, penman
• Someone employed to make written copies of documents and manuscripts.
  • synonyms: copyist, scrivener
• A sharp-pointed awl for marking wood or metal to be cut.
  • synonyms: scriber, scratch awl

verb

• Score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking. .

• (v.t.) To write, engrave or mark upon; to inscribe.
• (n.) One who writes; a draughtsman; a writer for another; especially, an offical or public writer; an amanuensis or secretary; a notary; a copyist.
• (v.t.) To cut (anything) in such a way as to fit closely to a somewhat irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a molding or the like; -- so called because the workman marks or scribe, with the compasses the line that he afterwards cuts.
• (v.i.) To make a mark.
• (v.t.) To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.
• (n.) A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.