commit
commit Lexical Profile
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• verb
To perpetrate or carry out (a mistake, crime, or immoral act).
"The prosecution presented clear evidence that the defendant had committed the fraud."
To pledge or bind (a person or an organization) to a certain course, policy, or relationship.
"Both nations have committed themselves to reducing carbon emissions over the next decade."
To allocate or consign (resources, money, or time) to a particular project or purpose.
"The university board voted to commit five million dollars to the new research facility."
To send or confine (someone) officially to custody, prison, or a psychiatric hospital.
"The judge ordered that the patient be committed to a secure medical facility for evaluation."
To transfer something to a state or medium where it will be preserved or remembered (such as memory or writing).
"She read the poem aloud several times until she had committed every line to memory."
• noun
An operation that permanently saves a set of tentative changes to a database or version-control repository (in computing and software development).
"The developer pushed a new commit to the main branch to fix the login bug."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in late Middle English from Latin committere, meaning 'to join, entrust, or perpetrate,' formed from com- ('with, together') and mittere ('to put or send').