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commit

Syllables: com·mit/kəˈmɪt/

commit verb: to give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.

Verb

commit (third-person singular simple present commits, present participle committing, simple past and past participle committed)

  1. (transitive) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
    • Commit these numbers to memory.
    • Bid him farwell, commit him to the Graue,c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
  2. (transitive) To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.
    • and ſome of the Conſpirators committed to the Caſtle of Dublin by us1641, A Great Conspiracy by the Papiſts in the Kingdome of Ireland, Diſcovered by the Lords Juſtices, and Counſell at Dublin, and Proclaimed There Octob. 23, 1641, page 2
  3. (transitive) To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.
    • Tony should be committed to a nuthouse!
    Synonyms:
    5150, section
  4. (transitive) To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
    • to commit murder
    • to commit a series of heinous crimes
  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.)
    • to commit oneself to a certain action
    • to commit to a relationship
  6. (transitive) To make a set of changes permanent.
    • When all SQL statements in the transaction are executed successfully, the transaction is committed and all the work that the SQL statements performed is made a permanent part of the database.2005, Thearon Willis, Beginning Visual Basic 2005 Databases, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 343
  7. (transitive) To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.
    • We can commit all unstaged files with one command: […]2014, Wlodzimierz Gajda, Git Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, Apress, →ISBN, page 86
    Synonyms:
    check in
  8. (intransitive, obsolete) To enter into a contest; to match; often followed by with.
    • For, in theſe ſtrifes, and on ſuch perſons, were as wretched to affect a victorie, as it is vnhappy to be committed with them.1616, Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Poetaster. [To the Reader.]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, →OCLC, page 348
    • […]and from hence ( as when Fire and Water are committed together ) ariſeth a most troubleſome conflict.1677, Richard Gilpin, “part II, chapter VII”, in Dæmonologia Sacra, London: J. D., page 313
  9. To make decisions that effectively convey elements of character.
    • To make this scene land, you really have to commit.
  10. (Latinism, obsolete, transitive) To confound.
    • Harry whoſe tuneful and well meaſur'd Song / Firſt taught our Engliſh Muſick how to ſpan / Words with juſt note and accent, not to ſcan / With Midas Ears, committing ſhort and long;1673, John Milton, “[Sonnet] XIII. To Mr. H. Lawes, on his Aires.”, in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions, London: […] Tho[mas] Dring […], →OCLC, page 57
  11. (intransitive, obsolete) To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
    • the sonne might one day bee found committing with his mother[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter XII, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
    • [K]eepe thy words Iusſtice, ſweare not, commit not, with mans ſworne Spouſe;c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
  12. (intransitive, obsolete) To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.
    • As a vaſt Herd of Cows in a rich Farmer's Yard, if, while they are milked, they hear their Calves at a Diſtance, lamenting the Robbery which is then committing, roar and bellow: So roared forth the Somerſetſhire Mob an Hallaloo, made up of almoſt as many Squawls, Screams, and other different...1749, Henry Fielding, chapter VIII, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume II, London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book IV, page 51

Noun

commit (plural commits)

  1. The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction), making it a permanent change; such a change.
    • To support locking and process synchronization independently of transaction commits, the server provides semaphore objects[…]1988, Klaus R Dittrich, Advances in Object-Oriented Database Systems: 2nd International Workshop
    • Every Git commit represents a single, atomic changeset with respect to the previous state.2009, Jon Loeliger, Version Control with Git
  2. The submission of source code or other material to a source control repository.
    Synonyms:
    check-in
  3. (US, informal, otherwise proscribed) A person, especially a high school athlete, who agrees verbally or signs a letter committing to attend a college or university.

commit meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

commit in Tamil

செய், இசை, உறுதியளி, ஏற்றுக்கொள், ஒப்படை, ஒப்புவி

commit in Urdu

کرنا, مرتکب ہونا

commit in Bengali

সমর্পণ করা, করা, অঙ্গীকার করা, ভারার্পণ করা, প্রতিজ্ঞাবদ্ধ করা

commit in Malayalam

വിശ്വസിച്ചേല്പിക്കുക, കുറ്റം ചെയ്യുക, ഏല്ക്കുക, ചുമതലപ്പെടുത്തുക, ഉൾപ്പെടുക
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commit in Kannada
ಸೆರೆಹಿಡಿ, ಒಪ್ಪಿಕೊಳ್ಳು, ಮಾತುಕೊಡು
commit in Punjabi
ਪ੍ਰਤੀਬੱਧ ਕਰੋ
commit in Gujarati
પ્રતિબદ્ધ કરો
commit in Sanskrit
विसर्जयति visarjayati
commit in Assamese
কৰ kor
commit in Arabic
اِرْتَكَبَ irtakaba
commit in Persian
سپردن sepordan, زندانی کردن zendâni kardan, دربند کردن darband kardan, مرتکب شدن
commit in Vietnamese
cam kết, chuyển giao, sự cam kết, lần cam kết

Examples of commit in a sentence

  • Commit thy way vnto the Lord: trust also in him, and he shall bring it to passe.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 37:5:
  • Commit it then to the Flames: For it can contain nothing but Sophiſtry and Illuſion.1748, [David Hume], “Essay XII. Of the Academical or Sceptical Philosophy.”, in Philosophical Essays Concerning Human Understanding...
  • What insane impossibility has Hughes just committed himself to?2019 December 9, qntm, “Wild Light”, in There Is No Antimemetics Division, →ISBN, pages 191–192:
  • […]whilst it commits us in hostility with the three greatest military powers of the empire.1877 [1804 March 4], Lord Castlereagh, quotee, “part II, chapter VII”, in Sidney James Owen, editor, Selection from the Despatches...

All 40 example sentences with commit

Synonyms of commit

Forms of commit

Verb
third-person singular presentcommits
present participlecommitting
past participlecommitted
pastcommitted
second-person singular present (archaic)committest
second-person singular past (archaic)committedst
third-person singular present (archaic)committeth
Noun
pluralcommits

Past tense of commit: committed

Plural of commit: commits

Origin of commit

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.

Words formed from commit

Phrases with commit

Words that rhyme with commit

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Questions about commit

What does commit mean?
Commit means to give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
What is commit in Tamil?
Commit in Tamil is செய், இசை, உறுதியளி. See Commit meaning in Tamil.
How do you use commit in a sentence?
Commit thy way vnto the Lord: trust also in him, and he shall bring it to passe.
What part of speech is commit?
Commit can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce commit?
Commit is pronounced /kəˈmɪt/.
What is the past tense of commit?
The past tense of commit is committed.

Words near commit in the dictionary

  1. commissurotomies
  2. commissurotomized
  3. commissurotomy
  4. commistion
  5. commisure
  6. commit
  7. commit a bill
  8. commit die
  9. commit point
  10. commit points
  11. commit sudoku

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: commit (page history and authors); commit (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); commit (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); commit (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); commit (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); commit (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); commit (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); commit (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); विसर्जयति (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); কৰ (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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