Gaol vs Commit - What's the difference?

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Gaol is a related term of commit.

As verbs the difference between gaol and commit

is that gaol is (british) while commit is .

As a noun gaol

is (uk|ireland|australia).

gaol

English

(wikipedia gaol)

Noun

(en noun)

(UK, Ireland, Australia)

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Usage notes

Gaol'' was the more common spelling between about 1760 and 1830,https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=gaol%2Cjail&year_start=1700&year_end=2000&corpus=15 and is still preferred in proper names in some regions. Most Australian newspapers use (m) rather than ''gaol''''', citing either narrower print width or the possibility of transposing letters in ''gaol'' to produce ''goal''.'''1996 , Sally A. White, ''Reporting in Australia , page 275

Synonyms

* See also

Verb

(en verb)

(British)

Derived terms

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References

Anagrams

* (l) * (l) ----

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

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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.