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Meaning:
Noun:
- computing The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction or source code into a source control repository), making it a permanent change.
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Verb:
- intransitive, obsolete To sin; especially, to be incontinent.
- obsolete To confound.
- To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
- To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
- To join a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
- To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; for example ''to commit oneself to a certain action'', ''to commit oneself to doing something''. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without ''oneself'' etc.)
[http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_speech/v074/74.3shapiro.html] - To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
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