Scratch and Commit

noun

• An abraded area where the skin is torn or worn off.
  • synonyms: abrasion, scrape, excoriation
• A depression scratched or carved into a surface.
  • synonyms: incision, prick, slit, dent
• Informal terms for money.
  • synonyms: boodle, bread, cabbage, clams, dinero, dough, gelt, kale, lettuce, lolly, lucre, loot, moolah, pelf, shekels, simoleons, sugar, wampum
• A competitor who has withdrawn from competition.
• A line indicating the location of the start of a race or a game.
  • synonyms: start, starting line, scratch line
• Dry mash for poultry.
  • synonyms: chicken feed
• A harsh noise made by scraping.
  • usage: "the scrape of violin bows distracted her"
  • synonyms: scrape, scraping, scratching
• Poor handwriting.
  • synonyms: scribble, scrawl, cacography
• Golf) a handicap of zero strokes. (
  • usage: "a golfer who plays at scratch should be able to achieve par on a course"
• An indication of damage.
  • synonyms: scrape, scar, mark

verb

• Cause friction.
  • usage: "my sweater scratches"
  • synonyms: rub, fray, fret, chafe
• Cut the surface of; wear away the surface of.
  • synonyms: scrape, scratch up
• Scrape or rub as if to relieve itching.
  • usage: "Don't scratch your insect bites"
  • synonyms: rub, itch
• Postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled.
  • usage: "Call off the engagement"; "cancel the dinner party"; "we had to scrub our vacation plans"; "scratch that meeting-the chair is ill"
  • synonyms: cancel, call off, scrub
• Remove by erasing or crossing out or as if by drawing a line.
  • usage: "Please strike this remark from the record"; "scratch that remark"
  • synonyms: strike, expunge, excise
• Gather (money or other resources) together over time.
  • usage: "She had scraped together enough money for college"; "they scratched a meager living"
  • synonyms: scrape, scrape up, come up
• Carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface.
  • usage: "engrave a pen"; "engraved the trophy cupt with the winner's"; "the lovers scratched their names into the bark of the tree"
  • synonyms: engrave, grave, inscribe

• (n.) In various sports, the line from which the start is made, except in the case of contestants receiving a distance handicap.
• (a.) Made, done or happening by chance; arranged with little or no preparation; determined by circumstances; haphazard; as, a scratch team; a scratch crew for a boat race; a scratch shot in billiards.
• (n.) A break in the surface of a thing made by scratching or by rubbing with anything pointed or rough; a slight wound, mark, furrow or incision.
• (n.) Minute, but tender and troublesome, excoriations, covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy.
• (v.i.) To score, not by skillful play but by some fortunate chance of the game.
• (n.) A kind of wig covering only a portion of the head.
• (v.t.) To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough across, as the claws, the nails, a pin or the like.
• (v.t.) To dig or excavate with the claws; as, some animals scratch holes, in which they burrow.
• (v.t.) To cancel by drawing one or more lines through, as the name of a candidate upon a ballot or of a horse in a list; hence, to erase; to efface; -- often with out.
• (v.t.) To write or draw hastily or awkwardly.
• (n.) A shot which scores by chance and not as intended by the player; a fluke.
• (n.) A line across the prize ring; up to which boxers are brought when they join fight; hence, test, trial or proof of courage; as, to bring to the scratch; to come up to the scratch.
• (v.i.) To use the claws or nails in tearing or in digging; to make scratches.

Slang for readily available money.

• (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.