commuting

«commuting» in Mova's school dictionary: travelling the same way regularly between home and work… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

verb form (commute, commutes, commuted, commuting); noun (commuting, uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) Commuting is travelling the same way regularly between home and work or school. tree →

2) (law) Commuting a punishment is making it less severe. tree →

3) (maths) Operations that commute give the same answer in either order. tree →

sense in the lessons

Adult life (Dad's commuting by train), maths (adding commutes: 3 + 5 = 5 + 3), news about traffic and rush hour.

examples

• Mum spends an hour commuting each day. tree →
• Commuting by bike keeps Dad fit. tree →
• The trains are full of people commuting to the city. tree →
• Commuting is tiring when the roads are busy. tree →
• Addition and multiplication are commuting operations. tree →
• He is commuting from the country to London. tree →

note

Person: commuter. In maths the commutative law: a + b = b + a and a × b = b × a, but subtraction and division do not commute (5 − 3 is not 3 − 5). In journey problems: a commute counts twice a day, there and back.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «commuting» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.