The meaning of "commit"

[pezsez1]

From answers.com:

The meaning of "Commit" is:

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

v.intr.

To pledge or obligate one's own self: felt that he was too young to commit fully to marriage.




Just thought I'd post that, in case any recruits check these boards. Seems an increasing number of them are forgetting what that word means.

[briarduck]

NIce! I never thought to look it up...

[Pontius]

Just thought I'd post that, in case any recruits check these boards. Seems an increasing number of them are forgetting what that word means.

You should email this to my ex girlfriends.

[goducks]

Just thought I'd post that, in case any recruits check these boards. Seems an increasing number of them are forgetting what that word means.

You should email this to my ex girlfriends.

But, guys are a LOT worse!!

[Pontius]

Just thought I'd post that, in case any recruits check these boards. Seems an increasing number of them are forgetting what that word means.

You should email this to my ex girlfriends.

But, guys are a LOT worse!!

Not in my world, unfortunately.

[blackjack17]

Those who like this definition are the same people who wish for Bryce Brown to decommit so don' read into it too deep.