Difference between Charge and Commit

What is the difference between Charge and Commit?

Charge as a verb is to place a burden upon. while Commit as a verb is to give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.

Charge

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To place a burden upon. To assign a duty to. To formally accuse of a crime. To assign a debit to an account. To pay on account, as by using a credit card. To cause to take on an electric charge. To move forward quickly and forcefully, particularly in combat, on horseback or both. To attack by moving forward quickly in a group. To commit a charging foul. (of a batsman) To take a few steps doen the pitch towards the bowler as he delivers the ball, either to disrupt the length of the delivery, or to get into a better position to hit the ball. To load equipment with material required for its use, as a firearm with powder, a fire hose with water, a chemical reactor with raw materials.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: responsibility. Someone or something entrusted to one's care, such as a child to a babysitter or a student to a teacher. A load or burden; cargo. The amount of money levied for a service. An instruction. A ground attack against a prepared enemy. An accusation. An electric charge. An offensive foul in which the player with the ball moves into a stationary defender. A measured amount of powder and/or shot in a firearm cartridge. An image displayed on an escutcheon.

Example sentence: I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.

Commit

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to intrust; to consign; -- used with to, unto.To put in charge of a jailor; to imprison.To do; to perpetrate, as a crime, sin, or fault.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.)To confound., To sin; especially, to be incontinent.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The act of committing (e.g. a database transaction or source code into a source control repository), making it a permanent change.

Example sentence: The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.

We hope you now know whether to use Charge or Commit in your sentence.

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