# commit

Pronunciation: US say "kuh-MIT" /kəˈmɪt/; UK

## Verb

1. To pledge or bind oneself, or to expose or endanger someone or something through a decisive step that cannot easily be reversed.
   - Simple: To promise to do something, or to make a choice that you cannot easily take back.
   - _The board refused to commit the company to such a risky merger._
   - _By signing the lease, she committed herself to a full year in the apartment._
2. To carry out something wrong or harmful; to perpetrate a crime, sin, or fault.
   - Simple: To do something bad, like a crime or a sin.
   - _Anyone who commits perjury can face years in prison._
   - _He confessed that he had planned to commit the burglary alone._
3. To send someone officially to a prison or psychiatric hospital, especially by legal order.
   - Simple: To officially send someone to prison or to a hospital for mental illness.
   - _Her family petitioned the court to commit her after the second breakdown._
   - _The state committed hundreds of patients to asylums under the old law._
4. In computing, to make a set of changes permanent, as in a database or a version control system.
   - Simple: In computing, to save changes so they become permanent, for example in shared code.
   - _He committed the bug fix to the main branch this morning._
   - _Developers commit their changes several times a day on this project._
7. To give over to someone's care or keeping; to entrust or consign, typically with the preposition 'to.'
   - Simple: To give something to a person so they will take care of it.
   - _The dying author committed her unpublished manuscripts to her closest friend._
   - _We commit these decisions to the judgment of the full committee._

## Noun

5. In computing, an act of making changes permanent, such as submitting code to a repository; also the changes themselves.
   - Simple: In computing, a saved set of changes, such as new code added to a shared project.
   - _Every commit should include a short message describing the change._
   - _The bug appeared somewhere among yesterday's forty commits._
6. A person, especially a high school athlete, who has verbally agreed or signed a letter pledging to attend a particular college or university. *(colloquial, US)*
   - Simple: A student, often an athlete, who has promised to go to a certain college.
   - _The coach announced three new commits during the press conference._
   - _As a junior, he became the earliest commit in the school's history._

## Verb

8. To be perpetrated; to take place or occur, as a crime or other deed. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: To happen or take place, especially something bad like a crime.
9. To offend or transgress; especially, to engage in sexual relations outside marriage. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: To do wrong, especially to have sex with someone you are not married to.
10. To enter into a contest or to match oneself against an opponent, often followed by 'with.' *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: To enter a contest or fight against another person.
11. To confound; to mix up or confuse one thing with another. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: To mix things up or confuse one thing with another.

## Origin

This word came through Middle English committen from Latin committō ("to bring together, join, commit a wrong, give in charge"), formed from com- ("together") and mittō ("to send"), the same root seen in "mission."

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/commit (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).