commit
To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto.
Verb 4 meanings
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.”
To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.
To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness.
“Tony should be committed to a nuthouse!”
To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
“to commit murder”
Noun 3 meanings
The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction), making it a permanent change; such a change.
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.
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.
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COMMIT at a glance
COMMIT has 6 letters and scores 12 points in Scrabble (C 3 + O 1 + M 3 + M 3 + I 1 + T 1) and 15 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,989 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with commit
All rhymesOne letter away
- COMMIE12
- COMMIS12
- COMFIT13
- COMMOT12
- COMMIX19
- WOMMIT13
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