commit

v 1: perform an act, usually with a negative connotation:

"perpetrate a crime"; "pull a bank robbery" [syn: {perpetrate},

{pull}]

2: furnish or contribute; "She committed herself to the work of

God"; "give one's talents to a good cause" [syn: {give}, {dedicate},

{devote}]

3: cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution; "After

the second episode, she had to be committed"; "he was

committed to prison" [syn: {institutionalize}, {send}, {charge}]

4: To confer a trust upon; "The messenger was entrusted with

the general's secret"; "I commit my soul to God" [syn: {entrust},

{intrust}, {trust}, {confide}]

5: make an investment; "Put money into bonds" [syn: {invest}, {put},

{place}] [ant: {divest}]

COMIT

The first string-handling and {pattern-matching} language,

designed in 1957-8 for applications in {natural language}

translation. The user has a workspace organised into shelves.

Strings are made of constituents (words), accessed by

{subscript}. A program is a set of rules, each of which has a

pattern, a replacement and goto another rule.

["COMIT Programmer's Reference Manual", V.H. Yngve, MIT Press

1961].

[Sammet 1969, pp. 416-436].

(1994-11-30)