Commute vs. Shuttle

Commuteverb

To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen

Commuteverb

To pay, or arrange to pay, in advance, in a lump sum instead of part by part.

Commuteverb

To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense.

Commuteverb

To pay out the lumpsum present value of an annuity, instead of paying in instalments; to cash in; to encash

Commuteverb

To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution;

Commuteverb

Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result.

Commuteverb

(intransitive) To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.

Commuteverb

(intransitive) To journey, to make a journey

Commutenoun

A regular journey to or from a place of employment, such as work or school.

Commutenoun

The route, time or distance of that journey.

Commuteverb

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.

Commuteverb

To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to effect a commutation.

Commuteverb

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

Commuteverb

to travel regularly from a place of residence to another place, such as where one's daily work is performed. Often, such travel is performed between a suburb and a nearby city; as, to commute to work.

Commuteverb

transpose and remain equal in value;

Commuteverb

travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home

Commuteverb

change the order or arrangement of;

Commuteverb

exchange a penalty for a less severe one

Commuteverb

exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category;

Shuttlenoun

(weaving) The part of a loom that carries the woof back and forth between the warp threads.

Shuttlenoun

The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a lock stitch.

Shuttlenoun

A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two places, sometimes more.

Shuttlenoun

Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle.

Shuttlenoun

Any other item that moves repeatedly back and forth between two positions, possibly transporting something else with it between those points (such as, in chemistry, a molecular shuttle).

Shuttlenoun

A shuttlecock.

Shuttlenoun

A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.

Shuttleverb

(intransitive) To go back and forth between two places.

Shuttleverb

(transitive) To transport by shuttle or by means of a shuttle service.

Shuttlenoun

An instrument used in weaving for passing or shooting the thread of the woof from one side of the cloth to the other between the threads of the warp.

Shuttlenoun

The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a lock stitch.

Shuttlenoun

A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.

Shuttleverb

To move backwards and forwards, like a shuttle.

Shuttlenoun

badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers

Shuttlenoun

public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that plies back and forth between two points

Shuttlenoun

bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads

Shuttleverb

travel back and forth between two points