Commissioned vs Commit - What's the difference?
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(commission)
A sending or mission (to do or accomplish something).
An official charge or authority to do something, often used of military officers.
* Shakespeare
The thing to be done as agent for another.
A body or group of people, officially tasked with carrying out a particular function.
* Prescott
A fee charged by an agent or broker for carrying out a transaction.
The act of committing (e.g. a crime).
* South
To send or officially charge someone or some group to do something.
* 2012 , August 1. Owen Gibson in Guardian Unlimited,
To place an order for (often piece of art); as, commission a portrait.
To put into active service; as, commission a ship.
To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.
* Bible, Psalms xxxvii. 5
* Shakespeare
To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
* Clarendon
To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.
* Bible, Exodus xx. 4
To join a contest; to match; followed by with .
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
* Junius
* Marshall
(obsolete, Latinism) To confound.
* Milton
(obsolete) To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.
*, II.12:
* Shakespeare
(computing) The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction or source code into a source control repository), making it a permanent change.
* 1988 , Klaus R Dittrich, Advances in Object-Oriented Database Systems: 2nd International Workshop
* 2009 , Jon Loeliger, Version Control with Git
As verbs the difference between commissioned and commit
is that commissioned is (commission) while commit is .commissioned
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(head)Anagrams
*commission
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(wikipedia commission)Noun
(en noun)- It was James Bond's commission to defeat the bad guys.
- David received his commission after graduating from West Point.
- Let him see our commission .
- I have three commissions for the city.
- the European Commission; the Electoral Commission; the Federal Communications Commission
- The company's sexual harassment commission made sure that every employee completed the on-line course.
- A commission was at once appointed to examine into the matter.
- a reseller's commission
- The real-estate broker charged a four percent commission for their knowledge on bidding for commercial properties; for their intellectual perspective on making a formal offer and the strategy to obtain a mutually satisfying deal with the seller in favour of the buyer .
- the commission , preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism
- Every commission of sin introduces into the soul a certain degree of hardness.
Synonyms
* body of officials: committee, government body * fee charged: brokerageDerived terms
* commissioner * European Commission * out of commissionVerb
(en verb)- James Bond was commissioned with recovering the secret documents.
London 2012: rowers Glover and Stanning win Team GB's first gold medal
- Stanning, who was commissioned from Sandhurst in 2008 and has served in Aghanistan, is not the first solider to bail out the organisers at these Games but will be among the most celebrated.
- He commissioned a replica of the Mona Lisa for his living room, but the painter gave up after six months.
- The aircraft carrier was commissioned in 1944, during WWII.
commit
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(Webster 1913)Verb
(committ)- Commit thy way unto the Lord.
- Bid him farewell, commit him to the grave.
- These two were committed .
- Thou shalt not commit adultery.
- You might have satisfied every duty of political friendship, without committing the honour of your sovereign.
- Any sudden assent to the proposalmight possibly be considered as committing the faith of the United States.
- committing short and long [quantities]
- the sonne might one day bee found committing with his mother.
- Commit not with man's sworn spouse.
Usage notes
To , entrust, consign. These words have in common the idea of transferring from one's self to the care and custody of another. Commit'' is the widest term, and may express only the general idea of delivering into the charge of another; as, to commit a lawsuit to the care of an attorney; or it may have the special sense of entrusting with or without limitations, as to a superior power, or to a careful servant, or of consigning, as to writing or paper, to the flames, or to prison. To ''entrust'' denotes the act of committing to the exercise of confidence or trust; as, to entrust a friend with the care of a child, or with a secret. To ''consign is a more formal act, and regards the thing transferred as placed chiefly or wholly out of one's immediate control; as, to consign a pupil to the charge of his instructor; to consign goods to an agent for sale; to consign a work to the press.Derived terms
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Noun
(en noun)- To support locking and process synchronization independently of transaction commits , the server provides semaphore objects...
- Every Git commit represents a single, atomic changeset with respect to the previous state.