commit
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.
IPA(key): /kəˈmɪt/
Rhymes: -ɪt
Hyphenation: com‧mit
commit (third-person singular simple present commits, present participle committing, simple past and past participle committed)
(transitive) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
(transitive) To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.
(transitive) To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.
(transitive) To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
(transitive, intransitive) 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.
(transitive, computing, databases) To make a set of changes permanent.
(transitive, programming) To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.
(intransitive, obsolete) To enter into a contest; to match; often followed by with.
(transitive, obsolete, Latinism) To confound.
(obsolete, intransitive) To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
(obsolete, intransitive) To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.
(euphemistic) die from suicide.
(forcibly treat): 5150 (US slang); section (UK slang)
(integrate new revisions into the public version of a file): check in
→ German: committen
commit (plural commits)
(computing, databases) The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction), making it a permanent change; such a change.
(programming) The submission of source code or other material to a source control repository.
(informal, sports, chiefly US) A person, especially a high school athlete, who agrees verbally or signs a letter committing to attend a college or university.
(submission of source code): check-in
→ German: Commit
→ Russian: комми́т (kommít)
push
stage
“commit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
“commit”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
IPA(key): /kɔ.mi/
commit
third-person singular past historic of commettre