All 4 Uses of
commute
in
The Fountainhead
- "You're acquiring the bad habits of all commuters, Gail," she said, "imposing your country hours on guests from the city who are not used to them."†
Chpt 4.9 *
- Will you like commuting?†
Chpt 3.2
- But you know, everybody that's anybody commutes nowadays.†
Chpt 3.2
- In the opinion of this column his sentence should have been commuted in recognition of his artistic discrimination.†
Chpt 4.1 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(commute as in: commute from New Jersey) regular travel -- such as between home and work
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(2)
(commute as in: commute the sentence) to exchange a penalty for one that is less severe
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(3)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Other rare meanings include- Changing one thing for another as in: "It was once believed that the philosopher's stone would commute lead to gold."
- In math, the commutative property indicates that the order in which two numbers are added or multiplied does not change their sum or product (2+3=3+2) and (4×7=7×4).