Commit and Tie

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.

tie

Neckwear consisting of a long narrow piece of material worn (mostly by men) under a collar and tied in knot at the front.
- usage: "he stood in front of the mirror tightening his necktie"; "he wore a vest and tie"
- synonyms: necktie
A social or business relationship.
- usage: "a valuable financial affiliation"; "he was sorry he had to sever his ties with other members of the team"; "many close associations with England"
- synonyms: affiliation, association, tie-up
Equality of score in a contest.
A horizontal beam used to prevent two other structural members from spreading apart or separating.
- usage: "he nailed the rafters together with a tie beam"
- synonyms: tie beam
A fastener that serves to join or connect.
- usage: "the walls are held together with metal links placed in the wet mortar during construction"
- synonyms: link, linkup, tie-in
The finish of a contest in which the score is tied and the winner is undecided.
- usage: "the game ended in a draw"; "their record was 3 wins, 6 losses and a tie"
- synonyms: draw, standoff
Music) a slur over two notes of the same pitch; indicates that the note is to be sustained for their combined time value. (
One of the cross braces that support the rails on a railway track.
- usage: "the British call a railroad tie a sleeper"
- synonyms: railroad tie, crosstie, sleeper
A cord (or string or ribbon or wire etc.) with which something is tied.
- usage: "he needed a tie for the packages"

Fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord.
- usage: "They tied their victim to the chair"
- synonyms: bind
Finish a game with an equal number of points, goals, etc..
- usage: "The teams drew a tie"
- synonyms: draw
Limit or restrict to.
- usage: "I am tied to UNIX"; "These big jets are tied to large airports"
Connect, fasten, or put together two or more pieces.
- usage: "Can you connect the two loudspeakers"; "Tie the ropes together"; "Link arms"
- synonyms: connect, link, link up
Form a knot or bow in.
- usage: "tie a necktie"
Create social or emotional ties.
- usage: "The grandparents want to bond with the child"
- synonyms: bind, attach, bond
Perform a marriage ceremony.
- usage: "The minister married us on Saturday"; "We were wed the following week"; "The couple got spliced on Hawaii"
- synonyms: marry, wed, splice
Make by tying pieces together.
- usage: "The fishermen tied their flies"
Unite musical notes by a tie. .

(v.t.) To fasten with a band or cord and knot; to bind.
(v.t.) A line, usually straight, drawn across the stems of notes or a curved line written over or under the notes, signifying that they are to be slurred or closely united in the performance or that two notes of the same pitch are to be sounded as one; a bind; a ligature.
(v.t.) A beam or rod for holding two parts together; in railways, one of the transverse timbers which support the track and keep it in place.
(v.t.) To make an equal score with, in a contest; to be even with.
(v.t.) To form, as a knot, by interlacing or complicating a cord; also, to interlace or form a knot in; as, to tie a cord to a tree; to knit; to knot.
(v.t.) A knot; a fastening.
(v.t.) To unite, as notes, by a cross line or by a curved line or slur, drawn over or under them.
(v.t.) To unite firmly; to fasten; to hold.
(v.t.) Low shoes fastened with lacings.
(v.t.) An equality in numbers, as of votes, scores, etc., which prevents either party from being victorious; equality in any contest, as a race.
(v.t.) A knot of hair, as at the back of a wig.
(v.t.) To hold or constrain by authority or moral influence, as by knotted cords; to oblige; to constrain; to restrain; to confine.
(v.t.) A bond; an obligation, moral or legal; as, the sacred ties of friendship or of duty; the ties of allegiance.
(v.i.) To make a tie; to make an equal score.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary