commit

IPA: kʌmˈɪt

noun

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

verb

  • (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.
  • (transitive) To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.
  • (transitive) To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
  • (transitive, intransitive) 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.)
  • (transitive, computing, databases) To make a set of changes permanent.
  • (transitive, programming) To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.
  • (intransitive, obsolete) To enter into a contest; to match; often followed by with.
  • (transitive, obsolete, Latinism) To confound.
  • (obsolete, intransitive) To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
  • (obsolete, intransitive) To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.
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Examples of "commit" in Sentences

  • He committed an irruption.
  • The boy committed matricide.
  • They ensued their commitment.
  • The criminal committed a suicide.
  • The judge negates the commitment.
  • The deviltry should not be committed.
  • The organization committed the misdeed.
  • The direction was committed to the Jesuits.
  • He committed matricide before he committed suicide.
  • His attempts fail and cause the exterminator to commit suicide.

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