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S vs Commutes - What's the difference?

s | commutes |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a verb commutes is

.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    commutes

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (commute)

    • Noun

    (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.