commit
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /kəˈmɪt/
rhymes: -ɪt
Forms: form: commits
form: committing
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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.
Senses: examples: text: Bid him farwell, commit him to the Graue,
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], page 52, column 1:
text: Commit thy way vnto the Lord: trust also in him, and he shall bring it to passe.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 37:5:
text: If we take in hand any Volume; of Divinity or School Metaphyſics, for Inſtance; let us aſk, Does it contain any abſtract Reaſonings concerning Quantity or Number? No. Does it contain any experimental Reaſonings concerning Matters of Fact or Exiſtence? No. Commit it then to the Flames: For it can contain nothing but Sophiſtry and Illuſion.
ref: 1748, [David Hume], “Essay XII. Of the Academical or Sceptical Philosophy.”, in Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, part III, page 256:
glosses: To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
examples: text: and ſome of the Conſpirators committed to the Caſtle of Dublin by us
ref: 1641, A Great Conspiracy by the Papiſts in the Kingdome of Ireland, Diſcovered by the Lords Juſtices, and Counſell at Dublin, and Proclaimed There Octob. 23, 1641, page 2:
glosses: To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.
examples: text: Tony should be committed to a nuthouse!
glosses: To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.
examples: text: to commit murder
text: to commit a series of heinous crimes
text: to commit suicide
translation: (also see usage notes)
english: (also see usage notes)
text: Thou shalt not commit adultery.
ref: 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 20:4:
glosses: To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
examples: text: to commit oneself to a certain action
text: to commit to a relationship
text: 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.
text: Any sudden assent to the proposal[…]might possibly be considered as committing the faith of the United States.
ref: 1803, John Marshall, The Life of George Washington:
text: […] the perennial bachelor and “the single woman who has never married, who is afraid to commit to an apartment, because she's afraid if she somehow commits to a studio or one-bedroom then she's never going to get married,” said Julie Friedman, a senior associate broker at Bellmarc Realty.
ref: 2005 July 31, Teri Karush Rogers, quoting Julie Friedman, “Fear of Committing?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: And what actinic, mind-wrenching form could the countermeme take? How could human hands assemble something so devastatingly powerful and hold it steady; what human mind could wield it without exploding from the inside out? What would deploying that concept in anger do to human ideatic space? How far out from the solution is modern memetic science, a year, a century? What insane impossibility has Hughes just committed himself to?
ref: 2019 December 9, qntm, “Wild Light”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, pages 191–192:
glosses: 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.)
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2005, Thearon Willis, Beginning Visual Basic 2005 Databases, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 343:
text: We can commit all unstaged files with one command: […]
ref: 2014, Wlodzimierz Gajda, Git Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, Apress, →ISBN, page 86:
topics: computing
databases
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To make a set of changes permanent.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
glosses: To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.
examples: text: For, in theſe ſtrifes, and on ſuch perſons, were as wretched to affect a victorie, as it is vnhappy to be committed with them.
ref: 1616, Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Poetaster. [To the Reader.]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, →OCLC, page 348:
text: […]and from hence ( as when Fire and Water are committed together ) ariſeth a most troubleſome conflict.
ref: 1677, Richard Gilpin, “part II, chapter VII”, in Dæmonologia Sacra, London: J. D., page 313:
text: […]whilst it commits us in hostility with the three greatest military powers of the empire.
ref: 1877 [1804 March 4], Lord Castlereagh, quotee, “part II, chapter VII”, in Sidney James Owen, editor, Selection from the Despatches, Treaties, and Other Papers of the Marquess Wellesley […] , Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 263:
glosses: To enter into a contest; to match; often followed by with.
examples: text: 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;
ref: 1673, John Milton, “[Sonnet] XIII. To Mr. H. Lawes, on his Aires.”, in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions, London: […] Tho[mas] Dring […], →OCLC, page 57:
glosses: To confound.
examples: text: the sonne might one day bee found committing with his mother[…].
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter XII, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
text: [K]eepe thy words Iusſtice, ſweare not, commit not, with mans ſworne Spouſe;
ref: c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], pages 297–298, column 2:
glosses: To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
examples: text: As a vaſt Herd of Cows in a rich Farmer's Yard, if, while they are milked, they hear their Calves at a Diſtance, lamenting the Robbery which is then committing, roar and bellow: So roared forth the Somerſetſhire Mob an Hallaloo, made up of almoſt as many Squawls, Screams, and other different Sounds, as there were Perſons, or indeed Paſſions, among them: […]
ref: 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter VIII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume II, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IV, page 51:
glosses: To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.
Synonyms: sense: forcibly treat
word: 5150
sense: forcibly treat
word: section
sense: integrate new revisions into the public version of a file
word: check in
Derived terms: autocommit
commit a bill
commit adultery
commit charge
commitment
commit sudoku
commit suicide
committable
committed
committer
committible
committing magistrate
commit to memory
decommit
go commit
miscommit
noncommitting
overcommit
precommit
recommit
uncommit
undercommit
Related terms: commission
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