Transportation vs Commute - What's the difference?
transportation | commute |
The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; conveyance, often of people, goods etc.
(historical) Deportation to a penal colony.
(US) A means of conveyance.
(US) A ticket or fare.
* 1898 , Willa Cather, The Westbound Train
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.
As nouns the difference between transportation and commute
is that transportation is the act of transporting, or the state of being transported; conveyance, often of people, goods etc while commute is a regular journey to or from a place of employment, such as work or school.As a verb commute is
to regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.transportation
English
Noun
(-)- We have to get people out of their cars and encourage them to use alternative forms of transportation .
- Mulligan's sentence was commuted from death to transportation .
- Nice transportation , dude, but your brake lights are busted.
- Sybil: [..] That reminds me, I haven't got my passes yet! Have you the transportation here from Cheyenne to San Francisco for Mrs. S. Johnston?"
- (Agent looks grave, goes back and fumbles at the papers on his desk, returns to the window with a slip of paper in his hand.)
- Agent: "We had transportation here made out for such a person, but it was called for several hours ago."
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 .