1. verb
Commit thy way unto the Lord. Psalms xxxvii. 5.
b) To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.
Bid him farewell, commit him to the grave. -Shakespeare
2. noun
The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction or source code into a source control repository), making it a permanent change.
To support locking and process synchronization independently of transaction commits, the server provides semaphore objects...
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