English Explanatory Dictionary

commit

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
  2. To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.
  3. To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.
  4. To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
  5. 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.)
  6. To make a set of changes permanent.
  7. To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.
  8. To enter into a contest; to match; often followed by with.
  9. To confound.
  10. To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
  11. To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.
noun
  1. The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction), making it a permanent change; such a change.
  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.

Pronunciation

/kəˈmɪt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Mélange a trois-commit.wav

Word forms

commit commits committing committed no-table-tags glossary committest committedst committeth

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.

Synonyms

5150 section check in check-in

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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