commit
Forms
- present (v1)
- commit
- past (v2)
- committed
- past participle (v3)
- committed
- present participle
- committing
- 3rd person singular
- commits
- Plural
- commits
Definitions
1.To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
- Commit these numbers to memory.
2.To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.
3.To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.
- Tony should be committed to a nuthouse!
4.To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
1.The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction), making it a permanent change; such a change.
- Every Git commit represents a single, atomic changeset with respect to the previous state.
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.(informal)
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1405
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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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.