commit

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause

   I committed myself to the charity with a large donation of time and money.

2. 2
   verb

   to cause to be admitted

   My neighbor was committed to a hospital to deal with some mental health issues.

3. 3
   verb

   To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.

   Commit these numbers to memory.

4. 4
   verb

   To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.

   and ſome of the Conſpirators committed to the Caſtle of Dublin by us

5. 5
   verb

   To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.

   Tony should be committed to a nuthouse!

6. 6
   verb

   To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.

   to commit murder

7. 7
   verb

   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.)

   to commit oneself to a certain action

8. 8
   verb

   To make a set of changes permanent.

   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.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English committen, itself borrowed from Latin committō (“to bring together, join, compare, commit (a wrong), incur, give in charge, etc.”), from com- (“together”) + mittō (“to send”). See mission.