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Propose vs Commit - What's the difference?

propose | commit |

As verbs the difference between propose and commit

is that propose is to suggest a plan, course of action, etc 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 propose and commit

is that propose is an objective or aim 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.

propose

English

Verb

(propos)
  • To suggest a plan, course of action, etc.
  • To ask for a person's hand in marriage.
  • To intend.
  • * 1859 , (John Gorham Palfrey), History of New England , Preface (Google preview):
    • I propose to relate, in several volumes, the history of the people of New England.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-16, author= John Vidal
    • , volume=189, issue=10, page=8, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Dams endanger ecology of Himalayas , passage=Many of the proposed dams would be among the tallest in the world.}}
  • (obsolete) To talk; to converse.
  • * 1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) , :
    • HERO. Good Margaret, run thee to the parlour;
    There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice
    Proposing with the prince and Claudio
  • (obsolete) To set forth.
  • * 1616 , (George Chapman) (translator), Homer's Iliad , book 11:
    • . . . so weighty was the cup,
    That being propos'd brimful of wine, one scarce could lift it up.

    Usage notes

    * In use 1. this is sometimes a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . * In use 3, this is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . * For more information, see * Compared to to suggest'', ''to propose is more deliberate and definite. To suggest is merely to mention, while to propose is to have a definite plan and intention.

    Synonyms

    * (l)

    Derived terms

    * proposal * proposition

    Related terms

    * proponent

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An objective or aim.
  • *, II.17:
  • *:whose aime hath beene to make us not good and wittie, but wise and learned; She hath attained her propose .

    • Anagrams

    * English reporting verbs ----

    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

    * *

    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.