commit

== English == === 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. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kəˈmɪt/ Rhymes: -ɪt Hyphenation: com‧mit === Verb === commit (third-person singular simple present commits, present participle committing, simple past and past participle committed) (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.) 8 March, 1769, Junius, letter to the Duke of Grafton You might have satisfied every duty of political friendship, without committing the honour of your sovereign. (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. (acting) To make decisions that effectively convey elements of character. (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. ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Synonyms ==== (forcibly treat): 5150 (US slang); section (UK slang) (integrate new revisions into the public version of a file): check in ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → German: committen ==== Translations ==== === Noun === commit (plural commits) (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, otherwise proscribed) A person, especially a high school athlete, who agrees verbally or signs a letter committing to attend a college or university. ==== Synonyms ==== (submission of source code): check-in ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → German: Commit → Russian: комми́т (kommít) ==== Translations ==== === See also === push stage === References === === Further reading === “commit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “commit”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. == French == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kɔ.mi/ === Verb === commit third-person singular past historic of commettre