commit

com-mit · verb

imported

Definitions

verb

  1. 1.

    To carry out or perpetrate (a mistake, crime, or immoral act).

  2. 2.

    To pledge or bind oneself to a course of action or to another person.

  3. 3.

    To transfer something to a particular state or place for preservation or disposal.

  4. 4.

    To send someone officially to prison or a psychiatric hospital.

  5. 5.

    (computing) To save changes to a version control repository.

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Etymology

From Latin committere ("to bring together, join, entrust, commit"), from com- ("together") + mittere ("to send, release").