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Commute vs Migration - What's the difference?

commute | migration |

As a verb commute

is .

As a noun migration is

.

commute

English

Verb

(commut)
  • To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa .
    • I commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan by bicycle.
  • (finance) To pay out the lumpsum present value of an annuity, instead of paying in instalments.
  • To pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part.
    • to commute for a year's travel over a route
  • (transitive, legal, criminology) To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense.
    • His prison sentence was commuted to probation.
  • To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to effect a commutation.
  • * (rfdate) Jeremy Taylor:
    • He thinks it unlawful to commute , and that he is bound to pay his vow in kind.
  • 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.
    • to commute''' tithes; to '''commute charges for fares
  • * Macaulay
    • The utmost that could be obtained was that her sentence should be commuted from burning to beheading.
  • (mathematics) Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result.
    • A pair of matrices share the same set of eigenvectors if and only if they commute .

    Derived terms

    * commuter * commuting

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A regular journey to or from a place of employment, such as work or school.
  • The route, time or distance of that journey.

    • migration

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An instance of moving to live in another place for a while.
  • Seasonal moving for animals, birds or fishes to breed or find a new home.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-01-01
    • , author=Paul Bartel, Ashli Moore , title=Avian Migration: The Ultimate Red-Eye Flight , volume=101, issue=1, page=47–48 , magazine= citation , passage=Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported […] that pine siskins (Spinus pinus ) undergo an irregular, nomadic type of nocturnal migration .}}
  • Movement in general.
    • The migration of lead from a can to the food inside it can cause lead poisoning.
  • (computing) Instance of changing a platform from an environment to another one.

    • Derived terms

    * stepwise migration * migrate * migratory

    Related terms

    * immigration * porting