commit vs surrender

commit

verb
  • To pledge or bind; to compromise, expose, or endanger by some decisive act or preliminary step. (Traditionally used only reflexively but now also without oneself etc.) 

  • To make a set of changes permanent. 

  • To do (something bad); to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault. 

  • To integrate new revisions into the public or master version of a file in a version control system. 

  • To forcibly evaluate and treat in a medical facility, particularly for presumed mental illness. 

  • To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto. 

  • To imprison: to forcibly place in a jail. 

noun
  • The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction), making it a permanent change; such a change. 

  • The submission of source code or other material to a source control repository. 

surrender

verb
  • To give oneself up into the power of another, especially as a prisoner; to submit or give in. 

  • To yield (a town, a fortification, etc.) to an enemy. 

  • To give up into the power, control, or possession of another. 

  • To give up possession of; to yield; to resign. 

  • To yield (oneself) to an influence, emotion, passion, etc. 

  • For a policyholder, to voluntarily terminate an insurance contract before the end of its term, usually with the expectation of receiving a surrender value. 

  • To abandon (one's hand of cards) and recover half of the initial bet. 

noun
  • An act of surrendering, submission into the possession of another; abandonment, resignation. 

  • The yielding or delivery of a possession in response to a demand. 

  • The yielding of the leasehold estate by the lessee to the landlord, so that the tenancy for years merges in the reversion and no longer exists. 

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