Journey vs. Commute: What's the Difference?

Journey and Commute Definitions
Journey
The act of traveling from one place to another, especially when involving a considerable distance; a trip.
Commute
To travel as a commuter
She commuted each day to her office downtown by subway.
Journey
A distance to be traveled or the time required for a trip
A 2,000-mile journey to the Pacific.
The three-day journey home.
Commute
To make substitution or exchange.
Journey
A process or course likened to traveling, such as a series of trying experiences; a passage
The journey from addiction to recovery.
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Commute
To serve as a substitute.
Journey
To make a journey; travel.
Commute
To pay in gross, usually at a reduced rate, rather than in individual payments.
Journey
To travel over or through.
Commute
Mathematics & Logic To satisfy a commutative property. If a × b = b × a, then a commutes with b, regardless of whether the operation indicated by × is commutative.
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Journey
A set amount of travelling, seen as a single unit; a discrete trip, a voyage.
The journey to London takes two hours by train.
Commute
To substitute (one thing for another); exchange.
Journey
(metaphorical) Any process or progression likened to a journey, especially one that involves difficulties or personal development.
The journey to political freedom
My journey of dealing with grief
Commute
To change (a penalty, debt, or payment) to a less severe one.
Journey
(obsolete) A day.
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Commute
An act or instance of commuting, especially the trip made by a commuter
A 22-mile commute.
An easy commute.
Journey
(obsolete) A day's travelling; the distance travelled in a day.
Commute
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
Journey
(obsolete) A day's work.
Commute
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
Journey
The weight of finished coins delivered at one time to the Master of the Mint.
Commute
To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense.
His prison sentence was commuted to probation.
Journey
A group of giraffes.
Commute
To pay out the lumpsum present value of an annuity, instead of paying in instalments; to cash in; to encash
Journey
To travel, to make a trip or voyage.
Commute
To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution;
Journey
The travel or work of a day.
We have yet large day, for scarce the sunHath finished half his journey.
Commute
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.
Journey
Travel or passage from one place to another, especially one covering a large distance or taking a long time.
The good man . . . is gone a long journey.
Commute
To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.
I commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan by bicycle.
Journey
A passage through life, or a passage through any significant experience, or from one state to another.
We must all have the same journey's end.
Commute
To regularly travel from one place to another using public transport.
Journey
The distance that is traveled in a journey{2}, or the time taken to complete a journey{2}; as, it's a two-day journey from the oasis into Cairo by camel; from Mecca to Samarkand is quite a journey.
Commute
(intransitive) To journey, to make a journey
Journey
To travel from place to place; to go from home to a distance.
Abram journeyed, going on still toward the south.
Commute
A regular journey between two places, typically home and work.
Journey
To traverse; to travel over or through.
Commute
The route, time or distance of that journey.
Journey
The act of traveling from one place to another
Commute
To exchange; to put or substitute something else in place of, as a smaller penalty, obligation, or payment, for a greater, or a single thing for an aggregate; hence, to lessen; to diminish; as, to commute a sentence of death to one of imprisonment for life; to commute tithes; to commute charges for fares.
The sounds water and fire, being once annexed to those two elements, it was certainly more natural to call beings participating of the first "watery", and the last "fiery", than to commute the terms, and call them by the reverse.
The utmost that could be obtained was that her sentence should be commuted from burning to beheading.
Journey
Undertake a journey or trip
Commute
To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to effect a commutation.
He . . . thinks it unlawful to commute, and that he is bound to pay his vow in kind.
Journey
Travel upon or across;
Travel the oceans
Commute
To pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part; as, to commute for a year's travel over a route.
Commute
To travel regularly from a place of residence to another place, such as where one's daily work is performed. Often, such travel is performed between a suburb and a nearby city; as, to commute to work.
Commute
Transpose and remain equal in value;
These operators commute with each other
Commute
Travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home
Commute
Change the order or arrangement of;
Dyslexics often transpose letters in a word
Commute
Exchange a penalty for a less severe one
Commute
Exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category;
Could you convert my dollars into pounds?
He changed his name
Convert centimeters into inches
Convert holdings into shares