| 单词 | commute |
| 释义 | commute (once / 1391 pages) 1nv 2v A commute is a journey you take from home to work and back again. You might enjoy your subway commute because it gives you lots of time to read. Your commute is your trip to work, and the verb commute describes making that trip — like your preference to commute by public bus. Another meaning of commute describes changing the length of a judicial sentence, like when a judge commutes someone's time in jail. You can see this meaning in the word's origin — the Latin word commutare, meaning "to change altogether." WORD FAMILYcommute: commutable, commutation, commuted, commuter, commutes, commuting+/commutable: commutability, incommutable/commutation: commutations/commuter: commuters/incommutable: incommutability, incommutably USAGE EXAMPLESThe San Ysidro plan also calls for new bicycle lanes and pedestrian improvements to encourage people to stop commuting by car. Los Angeles Times(Dec 29, 2016) Several professors already commute to Montgomery for their classes. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) At the time, she was commuting every week to San Francisco to work on Urban Decay. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1n a regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work there is standing room only on the high-speed commute Hyper journey, journeying the act of traveling from one place to another 2v travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home 2Hypo|Hyper live out, sleep out work in a house where one does not live jaunt, travel, trip make a trip for pleasure 1v exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category Syn|Hypo|Hyper change, convert, exchange change, shift, switch lay aside, abandon, or leave for another rectify convert into direct current utilizeconvert (from an investment trust to a unit trust) capitalise, capitalizeconvert (a company's reserve funds) into capital launderconvert illegally obtained funds into legal ones breakexchange for smaller units of money overcapitalise, overcapitalizecapitalize beyond what the business or the profit-making prospects warrant replace substitute a person or thing for (another that is broken or inefficient or lost or no longer working or yielding what is expected) 2v exchange a penalty for a less severe one Syn|Hyper convert, exchange alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation 3v exchange positions without a change in value These operators commute with each other Syn|Hyper transpose change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature 4v change the order or arrangement of Syn|Hypo|Hyper permute, transpose map, represent to establish a mapping (of mathematical elements or sets) change by reversal, reverse, turn change to the contrary |
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