commit

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To do, perform, or perpetrate: commit a murder.
2. v. To put in trust or charge; entrust: commit oneself to the care of a doctor; commit responsibilities to an assistant.
3. v. To place officially in confinement or custody, as in a mental health facility.
4. v. To consign for future use or reference or for preservation: commit the secret code to memory.
5. v. To put into a place to be kept safe or to be disposed of.
6. v. To make known the views of (oneself) on an issue: I never commit myself on such issues.
7. v. To bind or obligate, as by a pledge: They were committed to follow orders.
8. v. To refer (a legislative bill, for example) to a committee.
9. v. To pledge or obligate one's own self: felt that he was too young to commit fully to marriage.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To give in trust; put into charge or keeping; intrust; surrender; give up; consign: with to or unto.
2. To engage; involve; put or bring into risk or danger by a preliminary step or decision which cannot be recalled; compromise.
3. 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.
4. In legislation, to refer or intrust to a committee or select number of persons for their consideration and report.
5. To memorize; learn by heart: a shortened colloquial form of phrase to commit to memory: as, have you committed your speech?
6. 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.
7. To join or put together unfitly or heterogeneously; match improperly or incongruously; confound: a Latinism.
8. To consider; regard; account.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. To commit adultery.
12. To consign to prison; to exercise the power of imprisoning.
13. n. 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.

Wiktionary

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

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
2. v. To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
3. v. To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
4. v. rare To join for a contest; to match; -- followed by with.
5. v. To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step; -- often used reflexively.
6. v. An obsolete Latinism. To confound.
7. v. obsolete To sin; esp., to be incontinent.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. give entirely to a specific person, activity, or cause
2. v. perform an act, usually with a negative connotation
3. v. cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution
4. v. confer a trust upon
5. v. make an investment
6. v. engage in or perform