(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 .
Diagram
Definition:
(n.) A figure or drawing made to illustrate a statement, or facilitate a demonstration; a plan.
(n.) Any simple drawing made for mathematical or scientific purposes, or to assist a verbal explanation which refers to it; a mechanical drawing, as distinguished from an artistical one.
(v. t.) To put into the form of a diagram.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition to the phase diagrams reported here for these two binary mixtures, a brief theoretical discussion is given of other possible phase diagrams that may be appropriate to other lipid mixtures with particular consideration given to the problem of crystalline phases of different structures and the possible occurrence of second-order phase transitions in these mixtures.
(2) The relevant phase diagram shows different macroheterogeneous phases and microstructured domains.
(3) The pacemaker diagnostic diagram is generated by software in a pacemaker programmer from: (1) telemetered real-time event markers; (2) fixed and programmable timing parameters (lower rate, AV interval, etc.
(4) An innovative approach to treatment planning is described in which a planned dose distribution is evaluated in terms of prescribed limits of acceptability, and any discrepancies (referred to as "regions of regret") are displayed in the form of a contour diagram in which colors are used to represent different types and degrees of regret.
(5) This can be highlighted in an amplitude-latency diagram.
(6) The structural block diagram of the appropriate outfit for exposition automation in endoscopy is under discussion.
(7) ECG, aortic pressure and basal ZIV were also recorded to help identification of the different cardiac cycle phases on the diagram.
(8) The results revealed that: (1) There were few genetic variants on allelic constitutions of Chinese KM mouse colonies, and the genetic distance among KM subcolonies is 0.008-0.027 positively related with the time the colony closed; (2) The unique position of S: KM mouse was shown in phylogenetic diagram of 4 KM subcolonies, which agrees with the result from mandible analysis; (3) The allelic constitutions of KM mice differs from NIH mice a Swiss derivative colony at Es-3, Es-10, Glo-1, Gpt-1, Got-2 and Mpi-1 loci and the average genetic distance between KM and NIH colonies is 0.131 + 0.011, which indicates that Chinese KM mice is one of non-Swiss derivative subspecies.
(9) Additional knowledge of the miscibility properties (phase diagrams) of the binary bulk systems is required.
(10) The equivalent of the flow-volume diagram, i.e., the time derivative of the activity vs. activity is computed.
(11) The mixtures of oleic (OA) and linoleic acids (LA) show complex phase diagrams.
(12) A reference diagram is presented which is comparable to the Paris banding diagram but which was based primarily on chromosomes studied by acridine orange reverse banding.
(13) A discussion of combined OCs defines and diagrams monophasic, biphasic, and triphasic pills, distinguishes between different dose levels, and describes the mechanisms of action of OCs.
(14) The results have been discussed in light of above with graphic presentation including the scatter diagrams and the regression lines.
(15) The findings in each case were transferred to a standard diagram of the olive to facilitate comparison of cases.
(16) In addition to animating trajectories, ADAPTU was written to permit diagram generation in two and three dimensions for a detailed analysis, the extraction and listing of properties of a selected conformation and the visualization of the development of constraints in a restrained dynamics.
(17) The relative lipid composition of the lesions was plotted on the phase diagram of the 3 major lipids: cholesterol, cholesteryl ester, and phospholipid.
(18) Diagrams of the apparatus are given, and test results from a trial that evaluated positional bias and a sucrose-concentration preference experiment are presented to demonstrate its application in research.
(19) A modification of the Moorrees mesh diagram analysis takes advantage of the same basic principles and provides the same interpretation as the originally described analysis.
(20) From tracings of selected structures, movement is represented in the form of movement diagrams.