commit /kəˈmɪt/verb 12noun 3forms 6 verb12 •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. •to do something bad or wrong, such as a crimeto commit a series of heinous crimes •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.)8 March, 1769, Junius, letter to the Duke of Grafton You might have satisfied every duty of political friendship, without committing the honour of your sovereign. •To make decisions that effectively convey elements of character.To make this scene land, you really have to commit. •To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.and some of the Conspirators committed to the Castle of Dublin by us — 1641 •To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.Tony should be committed to a nuthouse! •To make a set of changes permanent.When all SQL statements in the transaction are executed successfully, the transaction is committed and all the work that the SQL statements performed is made a permanent part of the database. — 2005 •To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.We can commit all unstaged files with one command: […] — 2014 •(no longer used) To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.the sonne might one day bee found committing with his mother[…]. — 1603 •(no longer used) To enter into a contest; to match; often followed by with.For, in these strifes, and on such persons, were as wretched to affect a victorie, as it is vnhappy to be committed with them. — 1616 •(no longer used) To confound.Harry whose tuneful and well measur'd Song / First taught our English Musick how to span / Words with just note and accent, not to scan / With Midas Ears, committing short and long — 1673 •(no longer used) To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur. noun3 •The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction), making it a permanent change; such a change.To support locking and process synchronization independently of transaction commits, the server provides semaphore objects[…] — 1988 •The submission of source code or other material to a source control repository. •(US, informal) A person, especially a high school athlete, who agrees verbally or signs a letter committing to attend a college or university. formscommitted · committedst · committing · commits · committeth · committest
