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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