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English [edit]
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
Etymology [edit]
From Latin committere (“to bring together, join, compare, commit (a wrong), incur, give in charge, etc.”), from com (“together”) + mittere (“to send”). See mission.
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commit (third-person singular simple present commits, present participle committing, simple past and past participle committed)
- To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
- Commit thy way unto the Lord. Psalms xxxvii. 5.
- Bid him farewell, commit him to the grave. -Shakespeare
- To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
- These two were committed. -Clarendon
- To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
- Thou shalt not commit adultery. Exodus xx. 14.
- To join a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
- To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; for example to commit oneself to a certain action, to commit oneself to doing something. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without oneself etc.)[1]
- You might have satisfied every duty of political friendship, without commiting the honor of your sovereign. -Junius
- Any sudden assent to the proposal ... might possibly be considered as committing the faith of the United States. -Marshall
- (obsolete) To confound.
- Committing short and long [quantities]. -Milton
- (obsolete, intransitive) To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.12:
- the sonne might one day bee found committing with his mother [...].
- Commit not with man's sworn spouse. -Shakespeare
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.12:
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Usage notes [edit]
To commit, intrust, consign. These words have in common the idea of transferring from one's self to the care and custody of another. Commit is the widest term, and may express only the general idea of delivering into the charge of another; as, to commit a lawsuit to the care of an attorney; or it may have the special sense of intrusting with or without limitations, as to a superior power, or to a careful servant, or of consigning, as to writing or paper, to the flames, or to prison. To intrust denotes the act of committing to the exercise of confidence or trust; as, to intrust a friend with the care of a child, or with a secret. To consign is a more formal act, and regards the thing transferred as placed chiefly or wholly out of one's immediate control; as, to consign a pupil to the charge of his instructor; to consign goods to an agent for sale; to consign a work to the press.
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External links [edit]
- commit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- commit in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
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Noun [edit]
Wikipedia commit (plural commits)
- (computing) The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction or source code into a source control repository), making it a permanent change.
- 1988, Klaus R Dittrich, Advances in Object-Oriented Database Systems: 2nd International Workshop
- To support locking and process synchronization independently of transaction commits, the server provides semaphore objects...
- 2009, Jon Loeliger, Version Control with Git
- Every Git commit represents a single, atomic changeset with respect to the previous state.
- 1988, Klaus R Dittrich, Advances in Object-Oriented Database Systems: 2nd International Workshop
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commit
- third-person singular indicative past historic of commettre
