Commit: Definition and part of speech

Commit

  1. v. i. To sin; esp., to be incontinent.
  2. v. t. To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; — used with to, unto.
  3. v. t. To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
  4. v. t. To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
  5. v. t. To join for a contest; to match; — followed by with.
  6. v. t. To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; — often used reflexively; as, to commit one’s self to a certain course.
  7. v. t. To confound.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Leave a Comment