commit

Pronunciation: /kəˈmɪt/

The English word “commit” has 15 meanings listed here.

verb

To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.
To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.
To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
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.)
To make a set of changes permanent.
To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.
To enter into a contest; to match; often followed by with.
To make decisions that effectively convey elements of character.
To confound.
To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.

noun

The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction), making it a permanent change; such a change.
The submission of source code or other material to a source control repository.
A person, especially a high school athlete, who agrees verbally or signs a letter committing to attend a college or university.

Etymology

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.

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