commit

noun

(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.

(computing, databases) The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction), making it a permanent change; such a change.

verb

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

(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.

(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.

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

(transitive, obsolete, Latinism) To confound.

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

Roots

mitto-mit · Latin · send

Synonyms for commit

perpetratev devotev recommitv dedicatev entrustv institutionalizev confidev consecratev executev undertakev givev

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