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Outing vs Commute - What's the difference?

outing | commute |

As nouns the difference between outing and commute

is that outing is a pleasure trip or excursion while commute is a regular journey to or from a place of employment, such as work or school.

As verbs the difference between outing and commute

is that outing 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.

outing

English

Noun

(wikipedia outing) (en noun)
  • A pleasure trip or excursion.
  • The practice of publicly revealing that a person is homosexual without that person's consent.
  • An appearance to perform in public, for example in a drama, film, on a musical album, as a sports contestant etc.
  • * 2012 , BBC News: Daniel Radcliffe defends casting as poet Allen Ginsberg [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16652271]:
    • The role is the latest dramatic outing for Radcliffe since the end of the successful Potter franchise.

    Verb

    (head)

    • 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.