What's the difference between commune and commute?

Commune


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.
  • (v. i.) To receive the communion; to partake of the eucharist or Lord's supper.
  • (n.) Communion; sympathetic intercourse or conversation between friends.
  • (n.) The commonalty; the common people.
  • (n.) A small territorial district in France under the government of a mayor and municipal council; also, the inhabitants, or the government, of such a district. See Arrondissement.
  • (n.) Absolute municipal self-government.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Soluble proteins of a number of strains of the basidiomycete Schizophyllum commune were separated on polyacrylamide gel by disc electrophoresis.
  • (2) The incidence rates of primary nervous system neoplasms in 5 districts (large administrative units) of Western Poland with a relatively homogeneous health care system but some contrasts in economic activity, as well as in 224 communes (smallest administrative units) located within these 5 districts, with a total population of 3,097,000 were estimated on the appointed day (31.12.79).
  • (3) Korine tells me that as a kid he spent time on a hippy commune.
  • (4) The selenium (Se) level in barley and maize from 43 communes of Qidong county, a high risk area of liver cancer in China, were assayed.
  • (5) The owner of a DIY shop adjoining the former Maoist centre‚ now an Algerian restaurant‚ said his father used to own the building in question, but sold it shortly before Balakrishnan's commune opened in 1976.
  • (6) Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) demonstrates efficiently species-specific differences of hairy skin (integumentum commune) of domestic mammals (pig, cat, dog, horse, cattle, sheep, goat).
  • (7) Volatiles caused increased growth of Pseudomonas fluorescens, Bacillus cereus, Erwinia carotovora, Agrobacterium tumefaciens, A. radiobacter, Rhizobium japonicum, Mucor mucedo, Fusarium oxysporum f. conglutinans, Trichoderma viride, and Penicillium vermiculatum but not of Sarcina lutea, Serratia marcescens, Chaetomium globosum, or Schizophyllum commune.
  • (8) It was a formative time, during which he absorbed the principles of Wright's own craft commune, but he broke with his master after a year and a half, disagreeing with Wright's promotion of low-rise suburbia, in such plans as Broadacre City .
  • (9) In contrast, indole phosphate hydrolase activity only developed in cells of N. commune UTEX 584, when they were partially depleted of phosphorus, and the activity associated with these cells was suppressed partially by the addition of phosphate to assay buffers.
  • (10) A detailed analysis of cases of FIGO stage I into Ia and Ib stage demonstrated a shift of the peak of Ib stage to younger age in the two commune aggregates mentioned.
  • (11) Nasheed clearly understood the need to commune with power – but he also talked about the best way of pushing backsliding politicians in the right direction.
  • (12) Morpholine derivatives, especially fenpropimorph and tridemorph, were found to block selectively the isomerisation activity of cholesterol oxidases isolated from Nocardia erythropolis, Streptomyces sp., Pseudomonas testosteroni and Schizophyllum commune.
  • (13) rodA encodes a small, moderately hydrophobic polypeptide containing 8 cysteines arranged in a pattern similar to that observed in three hydrophobic cell wall proteins from the Holobasidiomycete Schizophyllum commune.
  • (14) These observations on the state of public health in China were made by 2 groups of medical personnel who visited China for several weeks in 1978 and toured medical facilities in 7 cities and 3 communes.
  • (15) Extrachromosomal factors modifying mating reactions in Schizophyllum commune were found.
  • (16) She took acid (“A super trip pill”) for three days under medical supervision in a commune.
  • (17) A clear enhancement of work performance was found following entry into the residential commune.
  • (18) Penicillium commune F-426 and Penicillium aurantiogriseum F-708 strains are efficient producers of this acid.
  • (19) Knowledge of the structure and function of a complex gene regulating sexual development in the mushroom, Schizophyllum commune, has come from the analysis of various mutations in a chromosomal region known as the Bbeta incompatibility gene.
  • (20) In the CaCO(3)-containing media, Schizophyllum commune, Merulius tremellosus, and Porodisculus pendulus were found to produce substantial amounts of L-malic acid as a main metabolic product, along with small quantities of oxalic and other acids in shake cultures.

Commute


Definition:

  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. i.) To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to effect a commutation.
  • (v. i.) To pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part; as, to commute for a year's travel over a route.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The lies Trump told this week: from murder rates to climate change Read more “President Obama has commuted the sentences of record numbers of high-level drug traffickers.
  • (2) In an exceptionally rare turn, the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, a panel appointed by the governor that is almost always hardline on executions, recommended that his death sentence be commuted to life in prison because of his mental illness.
  • (3) Whether out of fear, indifference or a sense of impotence, the general population has learned to turn away, like commuters speeding by on the freeways to the suburbs, unseeingly passing over the squalor.
  • (4) It also devalues the courage of real whistleblowers who have used proper channels to hold our government accountable.” McCain added: “It is a sad, yet perhaps fitting commentary on President Obama’s failed national security policies that he would commute the sentence of an individual that endangered the lives of American troops, diplomats, and intelligence sources by leaking hundreds of thousands of sensitive government documents to WikiLeaks, a virulently anti-American organisation that was a tool of Russia’s recent interference in our elections.” WikiLeaks last year published emails hacked from the accounts of the Democratic National Committee and John Podesta, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s election campaign.
  • (5) The surface mount electronic internal controller provides motor commutator, energy management, telemetry, and physiologic control functions.
  • (6) The pair woke up early and gathered their birth certificates, social security cards and passports before making the roughly three-hour commute.
  • (7) But Clegg also says he is not going to be cowed into taking Cameron's vow of silence about Farage's assertion that he finds Britain unrecognisable and is uncomfortable at the lack of English spoken on commuter trains out of Charing Cross.
  • (8) Well, news from the commuters and the rail users is that we don't like it, and we want a cheaper more equitable service.
  • (9) Two weeks after the July 7 suicide bomb attacks that killed 52 London commuters and injured more then 750, Shahid, a young Londoner who had just completed his fourth year at medical school, flew to Pakistan .
  • (10) Stephen Joseph, its chief executive said: "This is bitter news for everyone who relies on the train to get to work, not least the large number of commuters in marginal constituencies who will be a key group at the next election."
  • (11) Concluding an inquiry into the experience of rail passengers that became dominated by the events at Southern , the transport select committee said commuters had been badly let down.
  • (12) When you factor in commuting costs, it's not surprising many families decide it doesn't make sense financially for both parents to work.
  • (13) If you are a London commuter dreading tube strike chaos this evening and tomorrow there is an alternative to fighting your way on to overcrowded buses or a long walk.
  • (14) Prenatal care is provided in rural areas by health care people that commute from the cities.
  • (15) Sir Stephen Richards, 59, was arrested by detectives investigating an alleged sexual assault on a commuter service between London Waterloo and Wimbledon in south-west London.
  • (16) Another described First Great Western as " the worst commuter line I've ever had to endure ": "Not only is it the most expensive train line in Europe, it was never on time.
  • (17) Mahaneela Choudhury-Reid, a Londoner of colour, clashed with a smartly dressed commuter during what should have been the mid-morning quiet.
  • (18) Transport for London stepped in with a £750m pledge to prevent meltdown in the public-private partnership for the underground yesterday, as the capital's mayor warned of a "difficult period" for commuters after the tube's biggest maintenance firm entered administration.
  • (19) Potential London escapees will probably be put off by the cost of commuting, as an annual season ticket costs about £5,000, and the knowledge that state schools in London are better, on the whole, although Oxford has a stellar independent sector thanks to the likes of Oxford High School for Girls and Magdalen College School .
  • (20) The commutations are meant to combat the strict mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes – symbolically, at least – an area where Republicans and Democrats both support reform .