Immure vs Commit - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between immure and commit

is that immure is to cloister, confine, imprison: to lock up behind walls while commit is to give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.

As nouns the difference between immure and commit

is that immure is a wall; an enclosure while commit is the act of committing (e.g. a database transaction or source code into a source control repository), making it a permanent change.

immure

English

Verb

To cloister, confine, imprison: to lock up behind walls.

* 1799 , , Elle?mere: A Novel , Volume IV, William Lane (publisher), pages 219–220:

The gentlemen looked at each other for a ?olution of this ?trange event, each pre?uming an order had been obtained to again immure the unfortunate Clara.

* 1880 , , Preface,

In a happy moment for the Levy-Lawson-Levis, Lady Lytton was betrayed, seized, and immured . The Editor saw his chance, and made the Metropolis ring with the outrage. Levi was saved; so also was Lady Lytton.

* 1914', '', in ''The Single Hound'', republished 1924, Martha Dickinson Bianchi (introduction), '' The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson ,

Immured in Heaven! / What a Cell! / Let every Bondage be, / Thou sweetest of the Universe, / Like that which ravished thee!

* 1933 December, Albert H. Cotton, “ A Note on the Civil Remedies of Injured Consumers]”, in David F. Cavers (editor), Duke University School of Law, Law and Contemporary Problems , Volume I Number I, Duke University Press (1934), [http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/lcp1&id=75&terms=immured&collection=journals page 71:

This rule is followed in all common-law jurisdictions, although it was not adopted by the House of Lords until 1932, and then only with vigorous dissent, in a case where a mouse was immured in a ginger-beer bottle.

To put or bury within a wall.

John's body was immured Thursday in the mausoleum.

* 1906 , , The Book of Days , Volume 1, page 807,

The dreadful punishment of immuring persons, or burying them alive in the walls of convents, was undoubtedly sometimes resorted to by monastic communities.

(transitive, crystallography, and, geology, of a growing crystal) To trap or capture (an impurity);

* 1975 , , American Crystallographic Association, Soviet Physics, Crystallography , Volume 19, Issues 1-3, page 296,

On increasing the supercooling, the step starts completely immuring the impurity and $v$ rises sharply.

Synonyms

* (imprison) cloister, confine, imprison, incarcerate * (bury) inter

Derived terms

* immured

Noun

(en noun)
(obsolete) A wall; an enclosure.

(Shakespeare)

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.