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Travel and Commute Definitions

Travel

To go from one place to another, as on a trip; journey.

Commute

To travel as a commuter
She commuted each day to her office downtown by subway.

Travel

To go from place to place as a salesperson or agent.

Commute

To make substitution or exchange.

Travel

To move or pass, as from one person to another
Reports of the king's death traveled from village to village.

Commute

To serve as a substitute.
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Travel

To be transmitted, as light or sound
The speed at which sound travels through water.

Commute

To pay in gross, usually at a reduced rate, rather than in individual payments.

Travel

To move along a course, as a phonograph needle in the groove of a record.

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.

Travel

(Informal) To move swiftly
This car can really travel.

Commute

To substitute (one thing for another); exchange.
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Travel

To go about in the company of a particular group; associate
Travels in wealthy circles.

Commute

To change (a penalty, debt, or payment) to a less severe one.

Travel

To admit of being transported without loss of quality; Some wines travel poorly.

Commute

An act or instance of commuting, especially the trip made by a commuter
A 22-mile commute.
An easy commute.

Travel

(Basketball) To move illegally while holding the ball, usually by taking more than two steps between dribbles or by moving a foot that has been established as a pivot.

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
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Travel

To pass or journey over or through; traverse
Travel the roads of Europe.

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

Travel

The act or process of traveling from one place to another
With the railroad, travel between cities became swift.

Commute

To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense.
His prison sentence was commuted to probation.

Travel

A series of journeys
Her travels in Africa.

Commute

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

Travel

An account of one's journeys.

Commute

To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution;

Travel

The activity or business of arranging trips or providing services for travelers
She works in travel.

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.

Travel

Movement or passage
The travel of the planets around the sun.

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.

Travel

The motion of a piece of machinery, especially of a reciprocating part; stroke.

Commute

To regularly travel from one place to another using public transport.

Travel

The length of a mechanical stroke.

Commute

(intransitive) To journey, to make a journey

Travel

(intransitive) To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another.
John seems to spend as much time travelling as he does in the office.

Commute

A regular journey between two places, typically home and work.

Travel

(intransitive) To pass from one place to another; to move or transmit
Soundwaves can travel through water.
The supposedly secret news of Mary's engagement travelled quickly through her group of friends.

Commute

The route, time or distance of that journey.

Travel

To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball.

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.

Travel

(transitive) To travel throughout (a place).
I’ve travelled the world.

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.

Travel

(transitive) To force to journey.

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.

Travel

(obsolete) To labour; to travail.

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.

Travel

The act of traveling; passage from place to place.
Space travel
Travel to Spain

Commute

Transpose and remain equal in value;
These operators commute with each other

Travel

(in the plural) A series of journeys.
I’m off on my travels around France again.

Commute

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

Travel

(in the plural) An account of one's travels.
He released his travels in 1900, two years after returning from Africa.

Commute

Change the order or arrangement of;
Dyslexics often transpose letters in a word

Travel

The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point.

Commute

Exchange a penalty for a less severe one

Travel

The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke.
There was a lot of travel in the handle, because the tool was out of adjustment.
My drill press has a travel of only 1.5 inches.

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

Travel

(obsolete) Labour; parturition; travail.

Travel

Distance that a keyboard's key moves vertically when depressed.
The keys have great travel.

Travel

To labor; to travail.

Travel

To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets.

Travel

To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health; he is traveling in California.

Travel

To pass; to go; to move.
Time travels in divers paces with divers persons.

Travel

To journey over; to traverse; as, to travel the continent.

Travel

To force to journey.
They shall not be traveled forth of their own franchises.

Travel

The act of traveling, or journeying from place to place; a journey.
With long travel I am stiff and weary.
His travels ended at his country seat.

Travel

An account, by a traveler, of occurrences and observations during a journey; as, a book of travels; - often used as the title of a book; as, Travels in Italy.

Travel

The length of stroke of a reciprocating piece; as, the travel of a slide valve.

Travel

Labor; parturition; travail.

Travel

The act of going from one place to another;
He enjoyed selling but he hated the travel

Travel

A movement through space that changes the location of something

Travel

Self-propelled movement

Travel

Change location; move, travel, or proceed;
How fast does your new car go?
We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus
The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect
The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell

Travel

Undertake a journey or trip

Travel

Make a trip for pleasure

Travel

Travel upon or across;
Travel the oceans

Travel

Undergo transportation as in a vehicle;
We travelled North on Rte. 508

Travel

Travel from place to place, as for the purpose of finding work, preaching, or acting as a judge

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