commute

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /kəˈmjuːt/    美 /kəˈmjut/|/kəˈmjʉːt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A regular journey between two places, typically home and work. transitive
    — If you're hearing me then it means your ego has been commuted successfully into this CAT with zero errors. Only one warning by the way: it may take a moment to acclimatize to being a bodyless ego, but try not to worry too much.
  2. The route, time or distance of that journey.
动词 v.
  1. To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen
    — to commute tithes into rentcharges for a sum
  2. To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa. Canada,UK,US,intransitive
    — I commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan by bicycle.
  3. To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen; To pay, or arrange to pay, in advance, in a lump sum instead of part by part. transitive
    — to commute the daily toll for a year's pass
  4. To regularly travel from one place to another using public transport. Philippines,intransitive
  5. To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen; To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense. transitive
    — His prison sentence was commuted to probation.
  6. To journey, to make a journey intransitive
    — By one estimate, vultures either residing in or commuting into the Serengeti ecosystem during the annual migration—when 1.3 million white-bearded wildebeests shuffle between Kenya and Tanzania—historically consumed more meat than all mammalian carnivores in the Serengeti combined.
  7. To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen; To pay out the lumpsum present value of an annuity, instead of paying in instalments; to cash in; to encash transitive
  8. To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen; To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; intransitive,obsolete
    — He […] thinks it unlawful to commute, and that he is bound to pay his vow in kind.
  9. Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result. intransitive
    — A pair of matrices share the same set of eigenvectors if and only if they commute.

词形变化

commutes present,singular,third-person commuting participle,present commuted participle,past commuted past commutes plural commutes present,singular,third-person commuting participle,present commuted participle,past commuted past

词汇关系

衍生词
anticommute commutability commutable commutant commutation commutative commutive uncommuted commuter counter-commute postcommute reverse-commute reverse commute telecommute

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin mūtō
Latin commūtōbor.
English commute
Borrowed from Latin commūtō.
词源 2
From commutation ticket, a pass on a railroad, streetcar line, etc. that permitted multiple rides over a period of time, eg, a month, for a single, commuted payment.
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