Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word COMMIT

COMMIT

Definitions of COMMIT

(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.
(ambitransitive) 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.)
(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.
(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.