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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

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