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单词 commute
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commuten.

Etymology: < commute v. 4b.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: coˈmmute.
U.S.
A journey made in commuting, esp. to or from one's place of work; the distance travelled.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > journey to or from work
commute1960
1960 Time 21 Nov. 100/2 He frequently test-drives a competitor's car on his commute to Ann Arbor.
1968 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 12 Oct. 16 A liberal-minded chap in a New York suburb put his house on the market and got ready to move to one where there was more room for his family and which was an easier commute.
1973 M. Truman Harry S. Truman v. 97 On this semiannual commute, we always went by car.
1982 S. F. X. Dean Such Pretty Toys (1983) v. 64 Doan didn't think the sixty-mile commute each way every day was any problem.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

commutev.

Brit. /kəˈmjuːt/, U.S. /kəˈmjut/
Etymology: < Latin commūtāre to change altogether, alter wholly, to exchange, interchange, < com- together, altogether + mūtāre to change. On the analogy of words through French: compare transmute , commutate v.
1.
a. transitive. To give (one thing) in exchange for another, to change (for or into); to give and take (things) reciprocally, to exchange.
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the world > time > change > exchange > exchange, change for [verb (transitive)]
changec1225
truck?c1225
interchangec1374
permutec1400
wrixlec1400
turnc1449
wissel1487
chaffer1530
niffer1540
bandy1589
to chaffer words1590
swap1590
barter1596
counterchange1598
commute1633
trade1636
countercambiate1656
ring1786
rebarter1845
trade1864
swop1890
permutate1898
interconvert1953
1633 T. Stafford Pacata Hibernia (1821) iv. 268 May..exchange and commute..Moneys currant of England, into Moneys of this new Standerd of Ireland.
a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 107 Hee commuted Estates. Hee tooke our Sinnes upon him, and gave us his Righteousnesse.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Linc. 175 They shall find..what is gold worth, and may quickly be commuted into it, great plenty of good grain.
a1711 T. Ken Hymnarium 144 in Wks. (1721) II. He and the Beasts seem Natures to commute, They act like Reason, and he like the Brute.
b. To put (two things) each in place of the other, substitute for each other, interchange.
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the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > substitute [verb (transitive)]
changec1225
shifta1325
puta1400
underputc1400
put1483
put1535
subrogate1548
substitute1548
surrogate1586
counterchange1604
supplya1618
suffect1620
commute1667
succeed1667
to be in (another person's) shoes1842
sub1919
1667 R. Allestree Causes Decay Christian Piety ix. 263 Thus to commute our tasks, exchange these pleasant and gainful ones..for those uneasie and fruitless.
1832 W. Hamilton in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 166 To commute these terms in the translation of a Kantian Treatise, where subject and object..are accurately contradistinguished..is to convert light into darkness.
1870 F. C. Bowen Logic viii. 250 We cannot arbitrarily commute the Quantities.
c. To change for another, to alter.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > change [verb (transitive)]
wharvec897
wendOE
i-wendeOE
awendOE
aturn?c1225
biwrixle?c1225
changec1225
turnc1225
shifta1325
vary1340
inchangea1382
strange1390
altera1398
alterate?a1425
permute?a1425
difference1481
renewc1515
alienate1534
wrixlec1540
to chop and change1557
variate1566
palter1587
permutate1598
immute1613
unmake1616
unsame1632
chop1644
veer1647
variegatea1690
refract1700
mutabilatea1704
commute1825
stranger1863
switch1919
1825 R. Southey Tale of Paraguay iv. 28 All thoughts and occupations to commute, To change their air, their water, and their food.
1858 J. Martineau Stud. Christianity 132 The law was..treated as in theory perpetual; not as ignominiously abrogated, but as legitimately commuted.
2. ‘To buy off or ransom one obligation by another’ (Johnson); to change an obligation, etc. into something lighter or more agreeable; to redeem or get off an obligation by a money payment. Const. for, into rarely with.
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > compromise > [verb (transitive)] > by accepting payment
commute1633
compound1709
compromise1757
1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (iii. 11) 1345 There is no..commuting the penance.
1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iii. xviii. 139 His Holinesse..absolved many of their vows from Palestine, and commuted them into a journey into France.
1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. i. iv. (R.) He..thinks it unlawful to commute, and that he is bound to pay his vow in kind.
a1667 Bp. J. Taylor Wks. (1835) I. 853 God will not suffer us to commute a duty, because all is his due.
1692 R. L'Estrange Fables ccccxcviii. 476 Some..Commute Swearing for Whoring, as if the Forbearance of the One were a Dispensation for the Committing of T'other.
a1716 O. Blackall Wks. (1723) I. xxii. 206 We can't commute one Duty for another, because they are both alike required.
1782 H. More Daniel iv. 105 The false policy..which would commute our safety With God's eternal honour.
1859 J. C. Hobhouse Italy II. 247 Little sums paid..by women who wish to..commute a penance with a small present.
1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. II. xvii. 542 The grant of men was commuted for a contribution in money.
3.
a. To change (a punishment, or a sentence) for (to, into) another of less severity, or a fine (cf. 2).
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society > authority > punishment > [verb (transitive)] > reduce sentence or penalty
forbuyc1315
lenify1567
commute1642
to let one off easy1821
society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > judging > sentencing > sentence [verb (transitive)] > commute a sentence
commute1642
1642 T. Fuller Holy State ii. xvi. 111 The late custome in some places of commuting whipping into money.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) i. 29 Others..had their deaths mercifully commuted by our Magistrates into banishment.
1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1872) V. §1 xliv. 298 Forfeiture was sometimes commuted to a fine.
1844 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. i. 8 The..feudal practice of commuting all punishments whatever for fines.
1848 H. H. Wilson Hist. Brit. India 1805–35 III. viii. 469 The [capital] sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life.
b. with altered construction.
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1681 H. Prideaux Lett. (1875) 112 The Earl of Shaftesbury desires transportation, and would willingly commute banishment for his life.
1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I II. xi. 269 The pardon was refused, but a heavy fine commuted the offence.
4.
a. To change (one kind of payment) into or for another; esp. to substitute a single payment for a number of payments, a fixed payment for an irregular or uncertain one, or a payment in money for one in kind (e.g. a tithe; cf. 2).
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society > trade and finance > payment > pay money or things [verb (transitive)] > pay lump sum for recurring charge
compound1665
commute1845
1795 Hull Advertiser 7 Mar. 3/1 The licence to wear hair powder will be commuted for a tax on powder itself.
1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation ii. iv. 182 The quantity of corn payable as rent..on account of tithe that has been commuted.
1848 J. S. Mill Princ. Polit. Econ. I. 274 The legislature..might commute the average receipts of Irish landowners into a fixed rent charge and raise the tenants into proprietors.
1884 Law Rep.: Chancery Div. 25 689 She may commute into a capital sum..the benefit given to her..by way of annuity.
b. absol. spec. To purchase and use a commutation-ticket. Also, more generally, to travel daily or regularly to and from one's place of work in a city (by any means of conveyance); also transferred and figurative. Originally U.S.
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society > travel > rail travel > [verb (intransitive)] > travel regularly by season ticket
commute1889
society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > travel to and fro > to and from work
commute1935
1889 Cent. Dict. Commuter, one who commutes.
1906 Daily Chron. 25 Feb. 4 There are many business men who practically divide their time between New York and Chicago, and ‘commute’ (the American term for taking season tickets).
1935 G. Hopkins in H. O. Sturgis Belchamber p. vii Nobody ‘commuted’ in those days, not even the resident friend of an American living near Windsor.
1937 Times 24 Dec. 13/6 Small houses in the country, from which the men will ‘commute’ to New York, travelling to and fro each day by train.
1947 W. H. Auden Age of Anxiety iii. 76 A married tribe commutes, mild from suburbia.
1954 Southern Daily Echo 25 May He spends the winter in the West Indies and summer in England, commuting back and forth like the migrating swallows.
1959 Cambr. Rev. 16 May 507/1 The dons commute daily to the college.
1962 Daily Tel. 19 Mar. 15/4 The people who are ‘something in the City’ to-day mostly commute to Sussex and Surrey.
1966 Listener 14 July 49/1 Ken Russell and John Boorman commute with ease between the two worlds.
5. intransitive (a) To make up, compensate, compound for; (b) (of things) to serve as a substitute for.
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the world > time > change > exchange > substitution > be a substitute [verb (intransitive)]
to stand for ——OE
to stand in a person's stead?a1515
to be in any one's coat1530
walk1558
to serve the turn of1565
succenturiate1647
commute1653
to hand the saw1654
substitute1675
surrogate1681
to be in (another person's) shoes1767
substitute1888
pinch-hit1911
the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > be or become equal [verb (intransitive)] > compensate
supererogate1582
compensate1648
commute1653
compense1825
to take up the slack1930
1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler 156 Because I cut you short in that, I will commute for it, by telling you..a secret. View more context for this quotation
1663 J. Spencer Disc. Prodigies (1665) 378 Perhaps the shame and misery of this life may commute for hell.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 468 Built..by Margaret Æmiliana of Verona who had ben a <famous> Courtezan, or rather sinner..by this hoping to commute for her soule.
1782 W. F. Martyn Geogr. Mag. 1 40 The Greeks enjoin confessions and penances..for the latter they are allowed to commute.
6. transitive. To regulate (the direction of an electric current), esp. so that the direction of the current is made continuous.
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the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > operation of machinery > regulate current [verb (transitive)]
commute1884
commutate1890
1884 S. P. Thompson Dynamo-electr. Machinery vii. 132 Each delivering alternate currents to a commutator, which com mutes them to intermittent uni-directional currents in the brushes.
1896 S. P. Thompson Dyn.-Electr. Mach. (ed. 5) 438 The commutator has 54 segments, and there are 54 ‘commuting coils’.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 578/1 The current may be commuted.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 579/2 To commute its direction in any coil as it passes through the interpolar gap.
7. Algebra. intransitive. Of two or more algebraic quantities: to give an identical result in whatever order they are written down. Cf. commutative adj. 2.
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the world > relative properties > number > arithmetic or algebraic operations > transformation > be transformed [verb (intransitive)] > commute
commute1928
1928 H. W. Turnbull Theory of Determinants xvi. 257 K commutes with the operator βα.
1958 P. A. M. Dirac Princ. Quantum Mech. (ed. 4) ii. 24 It may happen as a special case that two linear operators ξ and η are such that ξη and ηξ are equal. In this case we say that ξ commutes with η, or that ξ and η commute.
1964 A. P. Robertson & W. Robertson Topol. Vector Spaces viii. 145 Suppose also that u and v commute (i.e. uov = vou).

Derivatives

coˈmmuted adj.
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1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xxviii. 671 Commuted payments for customary labour.
coˈmmuting n. and adj.
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > compromise > [noun] > instance of > involving payment
composition1601
commuting1659
compounding1769
society > travel > aspects of travel > traveller > [adjective] > travelling to and from work
commuting1934
society > travel > [noun] > travelling to and fro > to and from work
commuting1953
1659 J. Milton Civil Power in Wks. (1851) 309 A popish commuting of penaltie, corporal for spiritual.
1677 T. Otway Cheats of Scapin ii. i, in Titus & Berenice sig. G4v They'l..tell all your Fornications, Bastardings, and Commutings in their Courts.
1934 Amer. Speech 9 261 Of all commuting ladies the élite, They chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
1953 A. Huxley Let. 11 June (1969) 674 I wouldn't, if I were you, retire to a shack... The commuting will be a great burden.
1957 J. Braine Room at Top xii. 118 I thoroughly dislike commuting—people should live and work in the same place.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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