commute
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
criminology
finance
human-sciences
insurance
law
mathematics
sciences
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin mūtō
Latin commūtōbor.
English commute
Borrowed from Latin commūtō.
Inflected forms:
form: commutes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: commuting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: commuted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: commuted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: commutes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen
pos: verb
examples: to commute tithes into rentcharges for a sum
to commute market rents for a premium
to commute daily fares for a season ticket
gloss: To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to commute the daily toll for a year's pass
gloss: To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: His prison sentence was commuted to probation.
Ruslan Kutaev is evidence of this: not only was the elderly man sentenced to four years in prison (later commuted to two months), but he was tortured and his family threatened. This seems to be the price of viewing the world in other than Kadyrovite terms.
gloss: To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: He […] thinks it unlawful to commute, and that he is bound to pay his vow in kind.
gloss: Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: A pair of matrices share the same set of eigenvectors if and only if they commute.
gloss: A regular journey between two places, typically home and work.
pos: noun
tags: transitive
examples: If you're hearing me then it means your ego has been commuted successfully into this CAT with zero errors. Only one warning by the way: it may take a moment to acclimatize to being a bodyless ego, but try not to worry too much.
PS: The average commute time in the freewayless City of Vancouver is 27 minutes, while outside of the City of Vancouver the average commute time is 31 minutes.
gloss: The route, time or distance of that journey.
pos: noun
Derived words: anticommute
commutability
commutable
commutant
commutation
commutative
commutive
uncommuted
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: заменям
roman: zamenjam
lang: Bulgarian
word: разменям
roman: razmenjam
lang: Catalan
word: commutar
lang: Finnish
word: vaihtaa
lang: Finnish
word: muuntaa
lang: German
word: austauschen
lang: German
word: umtauschen
lang: German
word: vertauschen
lang: German
word: umwandeln
lang: German
word: abwandeln
lang: Spanish
word: conmutar