commit

Meanings

Verb

• To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
• To put in charge of a jailer; to imprison.
• To have (a person) enter an establishment, such as a hospital or asylum, as a patient.
• To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
• To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step.
• To make a set of changes permanent.
• To enter into a contest; to match; often followed by with.
• To confound.
• To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
• To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.

Noun

• The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction, or source code into a source control repository), making it a permanent change; such a change.

Origin

• Borrowed from Latin committō ("to bring together, join, compare, commit (a wrong), incur, give in charge, etc."), from com- + mittō. See mission.