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commit🔊

To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign.

To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.

To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.

To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.

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Thou shalt not commit adultery.

To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step.

(computing, databases) To make a set of changes permanent.

(programming) To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.

(obsolete) To enter into a contest; to match.

(obsolete, Latinism) To confound.

(obsolete) To commit an offense; especially, to fornicate.

(obsolete) To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.

(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.