Commit and Shoulder

• (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 part of the body between the neck and the upper arm.
• A cut of meat including the upper joint of the foreleg.
• A ball-and-socket joint between the head of the humerus and a cavity of the scapula.
  • synonyms: shoulder joint, articulatio humeri
• The part of a garment that covers or fits over the shoulder.
  • usage: "an ornamental gold braid on the shoulder of his uniform"
• A narrow edge of land (usually unpaved) along the side of a road.
  • usage: "the car pulled off onto the shoulder"
  • synonyms: berm

verb

• Lift onto one's shoulders.
• Push with the shoulders.
  • usage: "He shouldered his way into the crowd"
• Carry a burden, either real or metaphoric.
  • usage: "shoulder the burden"

• (v.i.) To push with the shoulder; to make one's way, as through a crowd, by using the shoulders; to move swaying the shoulders from side to side.
• (n.) Fig.: That which supports or sustains; support.
• (n.) That which resembles a human shoulder, as any protuberance or projection from the body of a thing.
• (n.) The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the upper part of the back; that part of the human frame on which it is most easy to carry a heavy burden; -- often used in the plural.
• (n.) The upper joint of the fore leg and adjacent parts of an animal, dressed for market; as, a shoulder of mutton.
• (v.t.) To take upon the shoulder or shoulders; as, to shoulder a basket; hence, to assume the burden or responsibility of; as, to shoulder blame; to shoulder a debt.
• (v.t.) To push or thrust with the shoulder; to push with violence; to jostle.
• (n.) An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object or limits motion, etc., as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timber, the part of the top of a type which projects beyond the base of the raised character, etc.
• (n.) The joint or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint.
• (n.) The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank. See Illust. of Bastion.