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/kəˈmɪt/
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kəˈmɪt
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To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
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Commit these numbers to memory.
Bid him farwell, commit him to the Graue,
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Commit thy way vnto the Lord: trust also in him, and he shall bring it to passe.
If we take in hand any Volume; of Divinity or School Metaphyſics, for Inſtance; let us aſk, Does it contain any abſtract Reaſonings concerning Quantity or Number? No. Does it contain any experimental Reaſonings concerning Matters of Fact or Exiſtence? No. Commit it then to the Flames: For it can contain nothing but Sophiſtry and Illuſion.
That, as one of my more sceptical industry insiders put it, is because there is a reluctance to commit funds to any of these plans - and we can put the blame firmly on the fact that HS2 is eating up £7bn per year for the whole term of this parliament.
To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.
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and ſome of the Conſpirators committed to the Caſtle of Dublin by us
To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.
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Tony should be committed to a nuthouse!
To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
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to commit murder
to commit a series of heinous crimes
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to commit suicide
Thou shalt not commit adultery.
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.)
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to commit oneself to a certain action
to commit to a relationship
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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.
[The general cautioned] both these officers against any sudden assent they might inadvertently give to the proposal, if made to them also, which might possibly be considered as committing the faith of the United States.
[…] the perennial bachelor and “the single woman who has never married, who is afraid to commit to an apartment, because she's afraid if she somehow commits to a studio or one-bedroom then she's never going to get married,” said Julie Friedman, a senior associate broker at Bellmarc Realty.
And what actinic, mind-wrenching form could the countermeme take? How could human hands assemble something so devastatingly powerful and hold it steady; what human mind could wield it without exploding from the inside out? What would deploying that concept in anger do to human ideatic space? How far out from the solution is modern memetic science, a year, a century? What insane impossibility has Hughes just committed himself to?
To make a set of changes permanent.
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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.
To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.
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We can commit all unstaged files with one command: […]
To enter into a contest; to match; often followed by with.
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For, in theſe ſtrifes, and on ſuch perſons, were as wretched to affect a victorie, as it is vnhappy to be committed with them.
[…]and from hence ( as when Fire and Water are committed together ) ariſeth a most troubleſome conflict.
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[…]whilst it commits us in hostility with the three greatest military powers of the empire.
To make decisions that effectively convey elements of character.
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To make this scene land, you really have to commit.
To confound.
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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;
To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
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the sonne might one day bee found committing with his mother[…].
[K]eepe thy words Iusſtice, ſweare not, commit not, with mans ſworne Spouſe;
To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.
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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 Sounds, as there were Perſons, or indeed Paſſions, among them: […]
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The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction), making it a permanent change; such a change.
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To support locking and process synchronization independently of transaction commits, the server provides semaphore objects[…]
Every Git commit represents a single, atomic changeset with respect to the previous state.
The submission of source code or other material to a source control repository.
A person, especially a high school athlete, who agrees verbally or signs a letter committing to attend a college or university.
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Verbo
perform an act, usually with a negative connotation
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perpetrate a crime
pull a bank robbery
make a set of changes permanent
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We committed the changes to the Git repository
give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause
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She committed herself to the work of God
give one's talents to a good cause
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consecrate your life to the church
cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
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After the second episode, she had to be committed
he was committed to prison
confer a trust upon
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The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret
I commit my soul to God
make an investment
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Put money into bonds
engage in or perform
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practice safe sex
commit a random act of kindness
transfer to another place so something can be kept or preserved
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He committed the poem to memory
she committed her thoughts to paper