Journey vs. Commute

Journey vs. Commute — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Journey and Commute

Journeynoun

A set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage.

Commuteverb

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

to commute tithes into rentcharges for a sum; to commute market rents for a premium, to commute daily fares for a season ticket

Journeynoun

(metaphorical) Any process or progression likened to a journey, especially one that involves difficulties or personal development.

the journey to political freedommy journey of dealing with grief

Commuteverb

To pay, or arrange to pay, in advance, in a lump sum instead of part by part.

to commute the daily toll for a year's pass

Journeynoun

(obsolete) A day.

Commuteverb

To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense.

His prison sentence was commuted to probation.
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Journeynoun

(obsolete) A day's travelling; the distance travelled in a day.

Commuteverb

To pay out the lumpsum present value of an annuity, instead of paying in instalments; to cash in; to encash

Journeynoun

(obsolete) A day's work.

Commuteverb

To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution;

Journeynoun

The weight of finished coins delivered at one time to the Master of the Mint.

Commuteverb

Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result.

A pair of matrices share the same set of eigenvectors if and only if they commute.
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Journeynoun

A group of giraffes.

Commuteverb

(intransitive) To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.

I commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan by bicycle.

Journeyverb

To travel, to make a trip or voyage.

Commuteverb

(intransitive) To journey, to make a journey

Journeynoun

the act of traveling from one place to another

Commutenoun

A regular journey to or from a place of employment, such as work or school.

Journeyverb

undertake a journey or trip

Commutenoun

The route, time or distance of that journey.

Journeyverb

travel upon or across;

travel the oceans

Commuteverb

transpose and remain equal in value;

These operators commute with each other

Commuteverb

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

Commuteverb

change the order or arrangement of;

Dyslexics often transpose letters in a word

Commuteverb

exchange a penalty for a less severe one

Commuteverb

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

Could you convert my dollars into pounds?He changed his nameconvert centimeters into inchesconvert holdings into shares