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What does commit mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word commit? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; — used with to, unto.
  2. To put in charge of a jailer; to imprison.
  3. (transitive) to have enter an establishment, such as a hospital or asylum, as a patient
  4. To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
  5. To join a contest; to match; followed by with.
  6. 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.)[1]
  7. (computing) To make a set of changes permanent.
  8. (Latinism) To confound.
  9. (obsolete, intransitive) To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
  10. (obsolete, intransitive) To be committed or perpetrated; to take place; to occur.
Noun
  1. (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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