Definitions for commit
kəˈmɪtcom·mit

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. perpetrate, commit, pullverb

   perform an act, usually with a negative connotation

   "perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery"

2. give, dedicate, consecrate, commit, devoteverb

   give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause

   "She committed herself to the work of God"; "give one's talents to a good cause"; "consecrate your life to the church"

3. commit, institutionalize, institutionalise, send, chargeverb

   cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution

   "After the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was committed to prison"

4. entrust, intrust, trust, confide, commitverb

   confer a trust upon

   "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God"

5. invest, put, commit, placeverb

   make an investment

   "Put money into bonds"

6. commit, practiceverb

   engage in or perform

   "practice safe sex"; "commit a random act of kindness"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. commitnoun

   The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction or source code into a source control repository), making it a permanent change.

2. commitverb

   To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.

3. commitverb

   To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.

   These two were committed. -Clarendon

4. commitverb

   To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.

   Thou shalt not commit adultery. Exodus xx. 14.

5. commitverb

   To join a contest; to match; -- followed by with.

6. commitverb

   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.)

7. commitverb

   To confound.

   Committing short and long [quantities]. -Milton

8. commitverb

   To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.

9. Etymology: From committere, from com + mittere. See mission.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. To COMMITverb

   Etymology: committo, Latin.

   1. To intrust; to give in trust; to put into the hands of another.

   It is not for your health thus to commit
   Your weak condition to the raw, cold morning. William Shakespeare.

   They who are desirous to commit to memory, might have ease. 2 Mac. ii. 25.

   2. To put in any place to be kept safe.

   Is my muse controul’d
   By servile awe? Born free, and not be bold!
   At least I’ll dig a hole within the ground,
   And to the trusty earth commit the sound. John Dryden, Pers. Sat.

   3. To send to prison; to imprison.

   Here comes the nobleman that committed the prince, for striking him about Bardolph. William Shakespeare, Henry IV. p. ii.

   They two were committed, at least restrained of their liberty. Edward Hyde.

   So though my ankle she has quitted,
   My heart continues still committed;
   And, like a bail’d and main priz’d lover,
   Although at large, I am bound over. Hudibras, p. ii.

   4. To perpetrate; to do a fault; to be guilty of a crime.

   Keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man’s sworn spouse. William Shakespeare, King Lear.

   Letters out of Ulster gave him notice of the inhumane murders committed there upon a multitude of the Protestants. Edward Hyde.

   A creeping young fellow committed matrimony with a brisk gamesome lass. Roger L'Estrange.

   ’Tis policy
   For son and father to take different sides;
   Then lands and tenements commit no treason. Dryden.

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1. commit

   To commit means to pledge, dedicate, obligate, or bind oneself to a particular course of action, cause, or person. It may also refer to carrying out or executing an act, especially one of significant consequence. In context, it could also mean transmitting or finalizing a procedure such as in computing where it refers to making permanent a tentative action or procedure.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Commitverb

   to give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto

2. Commitverb

   to put in charge of a jailor; to imprison

3. Commitverb

   to do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault

4. Commitverb

   to join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with

5. Commitverb

   to pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively; as, to commit one's self to a certain course

6. Commitverb

   to confound

7. Commitverb

   to sin; esp., to be incontinent

FreebaseRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Commit

   In computer science and data management, a commit is the making of a set of tentative changes permanent. A popular usage is at the end of a transaction. A commit is an act of committing.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Commit

   kom-it′, v.t. to give in charge or trust: to consign: to do: to endanger: to involve: to pledge:—pr.p. commit′ting; pa.p. commit′ted.—ns. Commit′ment, act of committing: an order for sending to prison: imprisonment; Commit′tal, commitment: a pledge, actual or implied; Commit′tee, a portion, generally consisting of not less than three members, selected from a more numerous body, to whom some special act to be performed, or investigation to be made, is committed; Commit′teeship.—Commit one's self, to compromise one's self: to pledge one's self wittingly or unwittingly to a certain course; Commit to memory, to learn by heart. [L. committĕre—com, with, mittĕre, to send.]

Dictionary of Military and Associated TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. commit

   The process of committing one or more air interceptors or surface-to-air missiles for interception against a target track.

Matched Categories

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   • Engage

British National Corpus

1. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'commit' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4679

2. Verbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'commit' in Verbs Frequency: #305

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of commit in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of commit in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of commit in a Sentence

1. Jeffrey Toobin:

   I think you need to draw a distinction between illegal immigrants who commit crimes and other immigrants who don't commit crimes.

2. Mark Twain:

   I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell you see, I have friends in both places.

3. North Korea:

   I never, never should have allowed myself to be lured by the United States administration to commit a crime in this country. I wish that the United States administration never manipulate people like myself in the future to commit crimes against foreign countries. I entirely beg you, the people and government of the DPRK, for your forgiveness. Please ! I made the worst mistake of my life !

4. Bikram Choudhury:

   I have no intention to have sex with any of my students or any women, sometimes students, they commit suicide. Lots of students of mine, they commit suicide because I will not have sex with them.

5. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.

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