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Transit vs Commute - What's the difference?

transit | commute |

As nouns the difference between transit and commute

is that transit is the act of passing over, across, or through something while commute is a regular journey to or from a place of employment, such as work or school.

As verbs the difference between transit and commute

is that transit is to pass over, across or through something while commute is to regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.

transit

English

Noun

  • The act of passing over, across, or through something.
  • * Burke
  • In France you are now in the transit from one form of government to another.
  • The conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance.
  • the transit of goods through a country
  • (astronomy) The passage of a celestial body across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body.
  • A surveying instrument rather like a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles.
  • (navigation) an imaginary line between two objects whose positions are known. When the navigator sees one object directly in front of the other, the navigator knows that his position is on the transit.
  • (British) a van. (rfex)
  • (Internet) to carry communications traffic to and from a customer or another network on a compensation basis as opposed to peerage in which the traffic to and from another network is carried on an equivalency basis or without charge.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To pass over, across or through something
  • To revolve an instrument about its horizontal axis so as to reverse its direction
  • (astronomy) To make a transit
  • Anagrams

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    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.