commit
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
databases
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
programming
sciences
sports
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.
Inflected forms:
form: commits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: committing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: committed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: committed
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: commit
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: commit
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: committed
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: commit
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: committest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: committed
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: committedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: commits
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: committeth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: committed
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: commit
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: committed
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: commit
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: committed
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: commit
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: committing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: committed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: commits
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Commit these numbers to memory.
Bid him farwell, commit him to the Graue,
Commit thy way vnto the Lord: trust also in him, and he shall bring it to passe.
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.
That, as one of my more sceptical industry insiders put it, is because there is a reluctance to commit funds to any of these plans - and we can put the blame firmly on the fact that HS2 is eating up £7bn per year for the whole term of this parliament.
gloss: To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: and ſome of the Conſpirators committed to the Caſtle of Dublin by us
gloss: To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Tony should be committed to a nuthouse!
gloss: To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to commit murder
to commit a series of heinous crimes
to commit suicide
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
gloss: 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.)
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: to commit oneself to a certain action
to commit to a relationship
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.
[The general cautioned] both these officers against any sudden assent they might inadvertently give to the proposal, if made to them also, which might possibly be considered as committing the faith of the United States.
[…] 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.
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?
gloss: To make a set of changes permanent.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
We can commit all unstaged files with one command: […]
gloss: To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To enter into a contest; to match; often followed by with.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: For, in theſe ſtrifes, and on ſuch perſons, were as wretched to affect a victorie, as it is vnhappy to be committed with them.
[…]and from hence ( as when Fire and Water are committed together ) ariſeth a most troubleſome conflict.
[…]whilst it commits us in hostility with the three greatest military powers of the empire.
gloss: To confound.
pos: verb
tags: Latinism
obsolete
transitive
examples: 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;
gloss: To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: the sonne might one day bee found committing with his mother[…].
[K]eepe thy words Iusſtice, ſweare not, commit not, with mans ſworne Spouſe;
gloss: To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: 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: […]
gloss: The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction), making it a permanent change; such a change.
pos: noun
examples: To support locking and process synchronization independently of transaction commits, the server provides semaphore objects[…]
Every Git commit represents a single, atomic changeset with respect to the previous state.
gloss: The submission of source code or other material to a source control repository.
pos: noun
gloss: A person, especially a high school athlete, who agrees verbally or signs a letter committing to attend a college or university.
pos: noun
tags: US
informal
Related words: commission
committal
committee
mission
noncommittal
push
stage
Derived words: 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
commit point
hypocrite commit
two-phase commit
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