commit

• WordNet 3.6
  • v commit give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause "She committed herself to the work of God","give one's talents to a good cause","consecrate your life to the church"
  • v commit make an investment "Put money into bonds"
  • v commit cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution "After the second episode, she had to be committed","he was committed to prison"
  • v commit confer a trust upon "The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret","I commit my soul to God"
  • v commit engage in or perform "practice safe sex","commit a random act of kindness"
  • v commit perform an act, usually with a negative connotation "perpetrate a crime","pull a bank robbery"
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• Interesting fact: It cost the soft drink industry $100 million a year for thefts committed involving vending machines
• • Commit To confound. "Committing short and long [quantities]."
  • Commit To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault. "Thou shalt not commit adultery."
  • Commit To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to unto. "Commit thy way unto the Lord.""Bid him farewell, commit him to the grave."
  • Commit To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
  • Commit 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. "You might have satisfied every duty of political friendship, without commiting the honor of your sovereign.""Any sudden assent to the proposal . . . might possibly be considered as committing the faith of the United States."
  • Commit To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison. "These two were committed ."
  • v. i Commit To sin; esp., to be incontinent. "Commit not with man's sworn spouse."
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• Interesting fact: In ancient China people committed suicide by eating a pound of salt.
• • commit To give in trust; put into charge or keeping; intrust; surrender; give up; consign: with to or unto.
  • commit To engage; involve; put or bring into risk or danger by a preliminary step or decision which cannot be recalled; compromise.
  • commit To consign to custody by official warrant, as a criminal or a lunatic; specifically, to send to prison for a short term or for trial.
  • commit In legislation, to refer or intrust to a committee or select number of persons for their consideration and report.
  • commit To memorize; learn by heart: a shortened colloquial form of the phrase to commit to memory: as, have you committed your speech?
  • commit To do or perform (especially something reprehensible, wrong, inapt, etc.); perpetrate: as, to commit murder, treason, felony, or trespass; to commit a blunder or a solecism.
  • commit To join or put together unfitly or heterogeneously; match improperly or incongruously; confound: a Latinism.
  • commit To consider; regard; account.
  • commit To speak or act in such a manner as virtually to bind one's self to a certain line of conduct, or to the approval of a certain opinion or course of action: as, he has committed himself to the support of the foreign policy of the government; avoid committing yourself.
  • commit Synonyms Intrust, Confide, Commit, Consign, agree in general in expressing a transfer from the care or keeping of one to that of another. To intrust is to give to another in trust, to put into another's care with confidence in him. Confide is still more expressive of trust or confidence, especially in the receiver's discretion or integrity; the word is now used most of secrets, but may be used more widely. Commit implies some measure of formality in the act; it is the most general of these words. Consign implies still greater formality in the surrender: as, to consign goods to a person for sale; to consign the dead to the grave. To consign seems the most final as an act; to commit stands next to it in this respect.
  • commit To commit adultery.
  • commit To consign to prison; to exercise the power of imprisoning.
  • n commit A game of cards. The eight of diamonds is thrown out of a full pack. Cards are dealt out one at a time as far as they will go, any remaining being left on the table for stops. The eldest hand leads, and every card in sequence and suit with it must come in order, the play being much the same as in newmarket (which see), the first to get rid of all his cards winning the pool.
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• Interesting fact: In Texas criminals are required to give their victims 24 hours notice, either orally or in writing, and to explain the nature of the crime to be committed.
• • v.t Commit kom-it′ to give in charge or trust: to consign: to do: to endanger: to involve: to pledge
  • pr.p Commit commit′ting; pa.p. commit′ted
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• Anthony Powell

  

  “Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.”
• Proverb

  

  “The first mistake are theirs who commit them, the second are theirs that permit them.”
• Sir Edward Coke

  

  “Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.”
• Peter F. Drucker

  

  “Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.”
• Tom Fatjo

  

  “I remember committing myself to make it in the garbage business, whatever it takes!”
• Tom Flores

  

  “A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance.”

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