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Commit

//kəˈmɪt// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun

1
The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction), making it a permanent change; such a change.
"To support locking and process synchronization independently of transaction commits, the server provides semaphore objects[…]"
2
The submission of source code or other material to a source control repository.
3
A person, especially a high school athlete, who agrees verbally or signs a letter committing to attend a college or university. US, informal

Verb

1
To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto. transitive
"Commit these numbers to memory."
2
transfer to another place so something can be kept or preserved wordnet
3
To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail. transitive
"and ſome of the Conſpirators committed to the Caſtle of Dublin by us"
4
make a set of changes permanent wordnet
5
To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness. transitive
"Tony should be committed to a nuthouse!"

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6
give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause wordnet
7
To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault. transitive
"to commit murder"
8
make an investment wordnet
9
To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without oneself etc.) ambitransitive
"to commit oneself to a certain action"
10
cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution wordnet
11
To make a set of changes permanent. transitive
"When all SQL statements in the transaction are executed successfully, the transaction is committed and all the work that the SQL statements performed is made a permanent part of the database."
12
confer a trust upon wordnet
13
To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system. transitive
14
engage in or perform wordnet
15
To enter into a contest; to match; often followed by with. intransitive, obsolete
"For, in theſe ſtrifes, and on ſuch perſons, were as wretched to affect a victorie, as it is vnhappy to be committed with them."
16
perform an act, usually with a negative connotation wordnet
17
To confound. Latinism, obsolete, transitive
"Harry whoſe tuneful and well meaſur'd Song / Firſt taught our Engliſh Muſick how to ſpan / Words with juſt note and accent, not to ſcan / With Midas Ears, committing ſhort and long;"
18
To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate. intransitive, obsolete
"the sonne might one day bee found committing with his mother[…]."
19
To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur. intransitive, obsolete
"As a vaſt Herd of Cows in a rich Farmer's Yard, if, while they are milked, they hear their Calves at a Diſtance, lamenting the Robbery which is then committing, roar and bellow: So roared forth the Somerſetſhire Mob an Hallaloo, made up of almoſt as many Squawls, Screams, and other different Sounds, as there were Perſons, or indeed Paſſions, among them: […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English committen, itself borrowed from Latin committō (“to bring together, join, compare, commit (a wrong), incur, give in charge, etc.”), from com- (“together”) + mittō (“to send”). See mission.

Etymology 2

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