Resign vs Commit - What's the difference?

Resign is a related term of commit.

As verbs the difference between resign and commit

is that resign is to give up or hand over (something to someone); to relinquish ownership of or resign can be (proscribed) while commit is .

resign

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) reisgner, (etyl) resigner, and its source, (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

To give up or hand over (something to someone); to relinquish ownership of.

* , I.39:

And if the perfection of well-speaking might bring any glorie sutable unto a great personage, Scipio'' and ''Lelius would never have resigned the honour of their Comedies.

(transitive, or, intransitive) To quit (a job or position).

I am resigning in protest of the unfair treatment of our employees.

He resigned the crown to follow his heart.

(transitive, or, intransitive) To submit passively; to give up as hopeless or inevitable.

After fighting for so long, she finally resigned to her death.

He had no choice but to resign the game and let his opponent become the champion.

* 1996 , Robin Buss, The Count of Monte Cristo'', translation of, edition, ISBN 0140449264, page 394 [http://books.google.com/books?id=QAa5l_8DNbcC&pg=PA394&dq=fate]:

Here is a man who was resigned' to his fate, who was walking to the scaffold and about to die like a coward, that's true, but at least he was about to die without resisting and without recrimination. Do you know what gave him that much strength? Do you know what consoled him? Do you know what ' resigned him to his fate?

Synonyms

* quit

Derived terms

* resignation * resign oneself

Etymology 2

(re-) + (sign)

Verb

(en verb)
(proscribed)

Usage notes

The spelling without the hyphen results in a heteronym and is usually avoided.

Anagrams

* reigns * signer * singer English contranyms English heteronyms

commit
English
(Webster 1913)
Verb
(committ)
To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.

* Bible, Psalms xxxvii. 5

Commit thy way unto the Lord.

* Shakespeare

Bid him farewell, commit him to the grave.

To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.

* Clarendon

These two were committed .

To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.

* Bible, Exodus xx. 4

Thou shalt not commit adultery.

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

You might have satisfied every duty of political friendship, without committing the honour of your sovereign.

* Marshall

Any sudden assent to the proposalmight possibly be considered as committing the faith of the United States.

(obsolete, Latinism) To confound.

* Milton

committing short and long [quantities]

(obsolete) To commit an offence; especially, to fornicate.

*, II.12:

the sonne might one day bee found committing with his mother.

* Shakespeare

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
* commit suicide * commit oneself
Related terms
* commitment * committal * noncommittal
External links
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References

Noun
(en noun)
(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

To support locking and process synchronization independently of transaction commits , the server provides semaphore objects...

* 2009 , Jon Loeliger, Version Control with Git

Every Git commit represents a single, atomic changeset with respect to the previous state.