English Dictionary

commit

/kəˈmɪt/

verb

(transitive) To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto. / (transitive) To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.

He decided to commit his savings to a new business venture.

意味（1）

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

Bid him farwell, commit him to the Graue,

意味（2）

(transitive) To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail.

意味（3）

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

Tony should be committed to a nuthouse!

意味（4）

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

to commit murder

意味（5）

(transitive, intransitive) 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

意味（6）

(transitive, computing, databases) 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.

意味（7）

(transitive, programming) To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system.

意味（8）

(intransitive, obsolete) To enter into a contest; to match; often followed by with.

For, in theſe ſtrifes, and on ſuch perſons, were as wretched to affect a victorie, as it is vnhappy to be committed with them.

意味（9）

(transitive, obsolete, Latinism) To confound.

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;

意味（10）

(obsolete, intransitive) To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.

the sonne might one day bee found committing with his mother[…].

意味（11）

(obsolete, intransitive) To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.

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: […]