Commute vs Communication - What's the difference?
commute | communication |
To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa .
(finance) To pay out the lumpsum present value of an annuity, instead of paying in instalments.
To pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part.
(transitive, legal, criminology) To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense.
To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to effect a commutation.
* (rfdate) Jeremy Taylor:
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.
* Macaulay
(mathematics) 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 regular journey to or from a place of employment, such as work or school.
The route, time or distance of that journey.
The act or fact of communicating anything; transmission.
(uncountable) The concept or state of exchanging data or information between entities.
A message; the essential data transferred in an act of communication.
The body of all data transferred to one or both parties during an act of communication.
An instance of information transfer; a conversation or discourse.
* Shakespeare
A passageway or opening between two locations; connection.
* Arbuthnot
(anatomy) A connection between two tissues, organs, or cavities.
* 1855, William Stokes, The Diseases of the Heart and the Aorta
(obsolete) association; company
* Bible, 1 Corinthians xv. 33
Participation in the Lord's supper.
(rhetoric) A trope by which a speaker assumes that his hearer is a partner in his sentiments, and says "we" instead of "I" or "you".
As nouns the difference between commute and communication
is that commute is a regular journey to or from a place of employment, such as work or school while communication is the act or fact of communicating anything; transmission.As a verb commute
is to regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.commute
English
Verb
(commut)- I commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan by bicycle.
- to commute for a year's travel over a route
- His prison sentence was commuted to probation.
- He thinks it unlawful to commute , and that he is bound to pay his vow in kind.
- to commute''' tithes; to '''commute charges for fares
- The utmost that could be obtained was that her sentence should be commuted from burning to beheading.
- A pair of matrices share the same set of eigenvectors if and only if they commute .
Derived terms
* commuter * commutingNoun
(en noun)communication
English
Noun
(wikipedia communication) (en noun)- communication of smallpox
- communication of a secret
- Some say that communication is a necessary prerequisite for sentience; others say that it is a result thereof.
- The node had established communication with the network, but had as yet sent no data.
- Surveillance was accomplished by means of intercepting the spies' communications .
- The subpoena required that the company document their communication with the plaintiff.
- The professors' communications consisted of lively discussions via email.
- Argument and friendly communication .
- A round archway at the far end of the hallway provided communication to the main chamber.
- The Euxine Sea is conveniently situated for trade, by the communication it has both with Asia and Europe.
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- ...and here a free communication had been established between the aorta and the vena cava.
- Evil communications corrupt manners.
- (Bishop Pearson)
- (Beattie)