Commute vs Transport - What's the difference?
commute | transport |
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.
To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.
(historical) To deport to a penal colony.
(figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.
* Milton
* South
An act of transporting; conveyance.
The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.
A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.)
(Canada) A tractor-trailer.
The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.
A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.
(historical) A deported convict.
As verbs the difference between commute and transport
is that commute is to regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa while transport is to carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.As nouns the difference between commute and transport
is that commute is a regular journey to or from a place of employment, such as work or school while transport is an act of transporting; conveyance.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)transport
English
Verb
(en verb)- to transport''' goods; to '''transport troops
- Music transports the soul.
- [They] laugh as if transported with some fit / Of passion.
- We shall then be transported with a nobler wonder.