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Commuting vs Commute - What's the difference?

commuting | commute | Derived terms |

Commute is a derived term of commuting.



As verbs the difference between commuting and commute

is that commuting is present participle of lang=en while commute is to regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.

As nouns the difference between commuting and commute

is that commuting is travel between home and workplace while commute is a regular journey to or from a place of employment, such as work or school.

As an adjective commuting

is causing, or involved in commutation.

commuting

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (wikipedia commuting) (-)
  • travel between home and workplace
  • (Philippines) travel by public transportation such as by jeepney

    • Related terms

    * commuter

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Causing, or involved in commutation

    • commute

    English

    Verb

    (commut)
  • To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa .
    • I commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan by bicycle.
  • (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.
    • to commute for a year's travel over a route
  • (transitive, legal, criminology) To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense.
    • His prison sentence was commuted to probation.
  • To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to effect a commutation.
  • * (rfdate) Jeremy Taylor:
    • He thinks it unlawful to commute , and that he is bound to pay his vow in kind.
  • 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.
    • to commute''' tithes; to '''commute charges for fares
  • * Macaulay
    • The utmost that could be obtained was that her sentence should be commuted from burning to beheading.
  • (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 pair of matrices share the same set of eigenvectors if and only if they commute .

    Derived terms

    * commuter * commuting

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A regular journey to or from a place of employment, such as work or school.
  • The route, time or distance of that journey.