"Commute" is a word in ENGLISH
To pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by
part; as, to commute for a year's travel over a route.
To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to
effect a commutation.
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.
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions. They have their place in heaven also.
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A grizzled old man was eating in a truck stop when three Hell's Angels' bikers walked in. The first walked up to the old man, pushed his cigarette into the old man's pie and then took a seat at the counter. The second walked up to the old man, spat into the old man's milk and then he too took a seat at the counter. The third walked up to the old man, turned over the old man's plate, and then he took a seat at the counter. Without a word of protest, the old man quietly left the diner. Shortly thereafter, one of the bikers said to the waitress, "Humph, not much of a man, was he?" The waitress replied, "Not much of a truck driver either, he just backed his big-rig over three motorcycles."
(From Sax. abere, apparent, notorious; and mord, murder.) Plain or downright murder, as distinguished from the less heinous crime of …
Read the complete definitionSee Commutator.
Read the complete definitionA bundle of flexible wires or thin plates of metal, used to conduct an electrical current to or from the …
Read the complete definitionThe quality of being commutable.
Read the complete definitionCapable of being commuted or interchanged.
Read the complete definitionThe quality of being commutable; interchangeableness.
Read the complete definitionA substitution, as of a less thing for a greater, esp. a substitution of one form of payment for another, …
Read the complete definitionThe act of giving one thing for another; barter; exchange.
Read the complete definitionThe change of a penalty or punishment by the pardoning power of the State; as, the commutation of a sentence …
Read the complete definitionA passing from one state to another; change; alteration; mutation.
Read the complete definitionIn oriminal law
Read the complete definitionRelative to exchange; interchangeable; reciprocal.
Read the complete definitionIn civil law. One in which each of the contracting parties gives and receives an equivalent; e. g., the contract …
Read the complete definitionA piece of apparatus used for reversing the direction of an electrical current; an attachment to certain electrical machines, by …
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Read the complete definitionOne who commutes; especially, one who commutes in traveling.
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Read the complete definitionCOMMUTATIVE JUSTICE. See Justice.
Read the complete definitionAn instrument used to change the direction of electric currents; a commutator.
Read the complete definitionTo fabricate evidence Is to arrange or manufacture drcumstances or indicia, after the fact commuted, wlth the purpose of using …
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