Word Meanings - COMMUTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: COMMUTE

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. The sounds water and fire, being once annexed to those two elements, it was certainly more natural to call beings participating of the first "watery", and the last "fiery", than to commute the terms, and call them by the reverse. J. Harris The utmost that could be obtained was that her sentence should be commuted from burning to beheading. Macaulay.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMMUTE)

• Substitute
• Exchange
• commute
• represent
• replace
• supply
• depute

Related words: (words related to COMMUTE)

• SUPPLYMENT
  A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
• SUPPLY
  LL. suppletare, from L. supplere, suppletum; sub under + plere to 1. To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• EXCHANGE EDITOR
  An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication.
• SUBSTITUTED
  Containing substitutions or replacements; having been subjected to the process of substitution, or having some of its parts replaced; as, alcohol is a substituted water; methyl amine is a substituted ammonia. Substituted executor , an executor
• EXCHANGEABILITY
  The quality or state of being exchangeable. The law ought not be contravened by an express article admitting the exchangeability of such persons. Washington.
• SUPPLYANT
  Supplying or aiding; auxiliary; suppletory. Shak.
• REPRESENTATIVELY
  In a representative manner; vicariously.
• SUBSTITUTE
  One who, or that which, is substituted or put in the place of another; one who acts for another; that which stands in lieu of something else; specifically , (more info) under, put in the place of; sub under + statuere to put, place: cf.
• COMMUTE
  1. To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to effect a commutation. He . . . thinks it unlawful to commute, and that he is bound to pay his vow in kind. Jer. Taylor. 2. To pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part; as,
• REPRESENTANT
  Appearing or acting for another; representing.
• REPRESENTATIONARY
  Implying representation; representative.
• REPRESENTER
  1. One who shows, exhibits, or describes. Sir T. Browne. 2. A representative. Swift.
• REPRESENTATIVE
  Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was originally presentative knowledge; as, representative faculties; representative knowledge. See Presentative, 3 and Represent, 8. (more info) 1. Fitted to represent; exhibiting a similitude.
• REPLACEABILITY
  The quality, state, or degree of being replaceable.
• REPRESENTATIVENESS
  The quality or state of being representative. Dr. Burnet observes, that every thought is attended with conssciousness and representativeness. Spectator.
• REPRESENT
  To form or image again in consciousness, as an object of cognition or apprehension (something which was originally apprehended by direct presentation). See Presentative,3. The general capability of knowledge necessarily requires that, besides the
• EXCHANGEABLY
  By way of exchange.
• COMMUTER
  One who commutes; especially, one who commutes in traveling.
• REEXCHANGE
  To exchange anew; to reverse .
• IRREPRESENTABLE
  Not capable of being represented or portrayed.
• RESUPPLY
  To supply again.
• TELEPHONE EXCHANGE
  A central office in which the wires of telephones may be connected to permit conversation.
• MISREPRESENTATION
  Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person's motives. Sydney Smith. Note: In popular use, this word often conveys the idea of intentional
• MISREPRESENTATIVE
  Tending to convey a wrong impression; misrepresenting.