| 单词 | commute |
| 释义 | commute /keuh myooht"/, v. , commuted, commuting, n. v.t. 1. to change (a prison sentence or other penalty) to a less severe one: The death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. 2. to exchange for another or for something else; give and take reciprocally; interchange. 3. to change: to commute base metal into gold. 4. to change (one kind of payment) into or for another, as by substitution. v.i. 5. to travel regularly over some distance, as from a suburb into a city and back: He commutes to work by train. 6. to make substitution. 7. to serve as a substitute. 8. to make a collective payment, esp. of a reduced amount, as an equivalent for a number of payments. 9. Math. to give the same result whether operating on the left or on the right. n. 10. a trip made by commuting: It's a long commute from his home to his office. 11. an act or instance of commuting. [1400-50; 1885-90 for def. 5; late ME < L commutare to change, replace, exchange, equiv. to com- COM- + mutare to change] |
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