The act of sending a legislative bill to committee for review. / Official consignment sending a person to prison or a mental health institution.

Of a proportionate or similar measurable standard. / (physics) Describing a crystal in which every atom or molecule is placed in the same relative position

To reduce to a common measure. / To proportionate; to adjust.

(UK) A type of paired quotation mark: ‘ or “ (beginning the quoted material) and ’ or ” (ending it).

(transitive) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto. / (transitive) To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.

(computing, databases) The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction), making it a permanent change; such a change.

(databases) In a DBMS, a point in time at which all updates to a database, or group of records in a database, are guaranteed to have been written to disk, and the journal or log records of that action have also been so committed. Future updates may be undone to that point if necessary.

(Internet, business) Commercial activity conducted via the Internet.

(transitive) To seize for military use. / (transitive) To force into military service. / (transitive) To take arbitrarily or by force.

A small fighting force specially trained for making quick destructive raids against enemy-held areas. / A commando trooper.