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.
- The phrase 'commit' when referring to suicide is still in common usage
- Ok,, To commit is to pledge yourself to a certain purpose or line of conduct.
- The most heinous crime an employer of labor can commit is to scab on his fellow employers of labor.
- But when we give benefits through the tax system (or when they and their kin commit crime there is no such guarantee).
- In this book the word commit occurs only slightly less often than the and and because it works to make definite commitments.
- And besides, would Electro Kevin commit financial suicide and lose the roof over his head for the sake of a clear conscience?
- But his commit is so superficial that there is no reason to take it as indicating that any significant number of liberals make that mistake.
- The basic rule of morality of war: the number of atrocities you commit is divided by the number of atrocities you could commit — but you did not!
- A Virginia man who spent eight years in prison for a rape he didn't commit is refusing a $226,000 state payoff, saying it comes with too many strings attached.
- The endless Seattle cycle of "wait for new input and never commit" is the problem; plus a curious tunnel-o-phobia that doesn't afflict most of the rest of the world.
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