A Quick and Simple Dictionary

commit

1. Verb.  To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
2. Verb.  To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
3. Verb.  To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
4. Verb.  To join a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
5. Verb.  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.
6. Verb.  (obsolete) To confound.
7. Verb.  (intransitive) , (obsolete) To sin; especially, to be incontinent.
8. Noun.  (computing) The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction or source code into a source control repository), making it a permanent change.