Commute

[kə'mjuːt] or [kə'mjʊt]

解释:

(noun.) a regular journey of some distance to and from your place of work; 'there is standing room only on the high-speed commute'.

(verb.) exchange a penalty for a less severe one.

(verb.) exchange positions without a change in value; 'These operators commute with each other'.

(verb.) travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home.

编辑:奥斯本--From WordNet

解释:

(v. t.) 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; hence, to lessen; to diminish; as, to commute a sentence of death to one of imprisonment for life; to commute tithes; to commute charges for fares.

(v. i.) To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to effect a commutation.

(v. i.) To pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part; as, to commute for a year's travel over a route.

编辑:梅根

同义词及近义词：

v. a. [1]. Exchange.[2]. Substitute.

校对:莱利亚

同义词及反义词：

SYN:Alter, mitigate, substitute, exchange, compensate, barter, equalize, balance,modify

ANT:Misappropriation, misconvert, misappropriate, disallow, stabilitate,perpetuate, stereotype

手打:维吉尔

解释:

v.t. to exchange: to exchange a punishment for one less severe.—n. Commutabil′ity.—adj. Commut′able that may be commuted or exchanged.—n. Commutā′tion the act of commuting: change or exchange of one thing for another: the change of a penalty or rate from a greater to a less.—adj. Commū′tative (or Comm′) relating to exchange: interchangeable.—adv. Commū′tatively.—n. Comm′utātor an apparatus attached to many electric machines for reversing the currents.—adj. Commut′ual mutual.

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