commit

Meaning

Verb

1. (transitive) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
2. (transitive) To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.
3. (transitive) To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.
4. (transitive) To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
5. (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.)
6. (transitive) To make a set of changes permanent.
7. (transitive) To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.
8. (intransitive, obsolete) To enter into a contest; to match; often followed by with.
9. (Latinism, obsolete, transitive) To confound.
10. (intransitive, obsolete) To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
11. (intransitive, obsolete) To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.

Noun

1. The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction), making it a permanent change; such a change.
2. The submission of source code or other material to a source control repository.
3. (US, informal) A person, especially a high school athlete, who agrees verbally or signs a letter committing to attend a college or university.

Synonyms

entrust

perpetrate

do

consign

trust

confide

perform

intrust

act

dedicate

pledge

devote

send

put

make

place

give

consecrate

bind

pull

charge

hand over

invest

accomplish

practice

execute

work

undertake

do wrong

render

subject

refer

relegate

effect

dispatch

play

make a mistake

carry out

deliver

institutionalise

achieve

institutionalize

assign

expose

fulfil

confect

conduct

conclude

compromise

bet

Translations

commettere

commettre

cometer

begehen

verüben

affidare

διαπράττω

cometer

perpétrer

commetre

raccomandare

bedrijven

compiere

ودع

اقترف

Pronounced as (IPA)

/kəˈmɪt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English committen, itself 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.