COMMUTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does commute mean? 

• COMMUTE (noun)
  The noun COMMUTE has 1 sense:

1. a regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work

  Familiarity information: COMMUTE used as a noun is very rare.

• COMMUTE (verb)
  The verb COMMUTE has 5 senses:

1. exchange positions without a change in value

2. travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home

3. change the order or arrangement of

4. exchange a penalty for a less severe one

5. exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category

  Familiarity information: COMMUTE used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMUTE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

there is standing room only on the high-speed commute

Hypernyms ("commute" is a kind of...):

journey; journeying (the act of traveling from one place to another)

• COMMUTE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they commute    ... he / she / it commutes   
Past simple: commuted   
Past participle: commuted   
-ing form: commuting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Exchange positions without a change in value

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

commute; transpose

Context example:

These operators commute with each other

Hypernyms (to "commute" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Domain category:

math; mathematics; maths (a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

commutation (the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "commute" is one way to...):

jaunt; travel; trip (make a trip for pleasure)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "commute"):

live out; sleep out (work in a house where one does not live)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

commutation (the travel of a commuter)

commuter (a passenger train that is ridden primarily by passengers who travel regularly from one place to another)

commuter (someone who travels regularly from home in a suburb to work in a city)

commuting (the travel of a commuter)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Change the order or arrangement of

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

commute; permute; transpose

Context example:

Dyslexics often transpose letters in a word

Hypernyms (to "commute" is one way to...):

change by reversal; reverse; turn (change to the contrary)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "commute"):

map; represent (to establish a mapping (of mathematical elements or sets))

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

commutation (the act of putting one thing or person in the place of another:)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Exchange a penalty for a less severe one

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

commute; convert; exchange

Hypernyms (to "commute" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

commutation ((law) the reduction in severity of a punishment imposed by law)

commutation (a warrant substituting a lesser punishment for a greater one)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

change; commute; convert; exchange

Context example:

convert holdings into shares

Hypernyms (to "commute" is one way to...):

replace (substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected))

Verb group:

change; shift; switch (lay aside, abandon, or leave for another)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "commute"):

rectify (convert into direct current)

utilize (convert (from an investment trust to a unit trust))

capitalise; capitalize (convert (a company's reserve funds) into capital)

launder (convert illegally obtained funds into legal ones)

break (exchange for smaller units of money)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

commutation (a warrant substituting a lesser punishment for a greater one)

 Context examples 

The researchers found that children who actively commuted to school had lower body fat, and therefore were less likely to be overweight or obese.

(Children who walk to school less likely to be overweight or obese, study suggests, University of Cambridge)

I suppose that I am commuting a felony, but it is just possible that I am saving a soul.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Your new home may be near your work too, cutting down on commuting time.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The Overactive Bladder Questionnaire (OAB-q) Made you carefully plan your commute?

(OAB-q - Carefully Plan Your Commute, NCI Thesaurus)

Close to half of children in the study took part in sport every day, and a similar proportion actively commuted to school, travelling on foot, by bicycle or scooter.

(Children who walk to school less likely to be overweight or obese, study suggests, University of Cambridge)

The study is the first to assess the impact of physical activity on childhood overweight and obesity levels for primary schoolchildren by simultaneously relating two of the main types of extracurricular physical activity: daily commuting to school and frequency of participation in sport.

(Children who walk to school less likely to be overweight or obese, study suggests, University of Cambridge)

Dressed up in white flannels I went over to his lawn a little after seven and wandered around rather ill-at-ease among swirls and eddies of people I didn't know—though here and there was a face I had noticed on the commuting train.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

The practical thing was to find rooms in the city but it was a warm season and I had just left a country of wide lawns and friendly trees, so when a young man at the office suggested that we take a house together in a commuting town it sounded like a great idea.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)