Commute vs. Convert — What's the Difference?

To travel as a commuter

To change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product; transform

To make substitution or exchange.

To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another; adapt to a new or different purpose

To serve as a substitute.

To persuade or induce to adopt a particular religion, faith, or belief

To pay in gross, usually at a reduced rate, rather than in individual payments.

To exchange for something of equal value

Mathematics & Logic To satisfy a commutative property. If a × b = b × a, then a commutes with b, regardless of whether the operation indicated by × is commutative.

To express (a quantity) in alternative units

To substitute (one thing for another); exchange.

(Logic) To transform (a proposition) by conversion.

To change (a penalty, debt, or payment) to a less severe one.

(Law) To appropriate (another's property) without right to one's own use.

An act or instance of commuting, especially the trip made by a commuter

To complete (a conversion, penalty shot, or free throw) successfully.

To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen

To score (a spare) in bowling.

To pay, or arrange to pay, in advance, in a lump sum instead of part by part.

To undergo a conversion

To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense.

To be converted

To pay out the lumpsum present value of an annuity, instead of paying in instalments; to cash in; to encash

(Football) To make a conversion.

To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution;

(Sports) To shoot and score a goal, especially immediately after receiving a pass or gaining control of a rebound.

Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result.

One who has been converted, especially from one religion or belief to another.

To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.

(transitive) To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product.

To regularly travel from one place to another using public transport.

(transitive) To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another.

(intransitive) To journey, to make a journey

(transitive) To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief see also sense 11.

A regular journey between two places, typically home and work.

(transitive) To exchange for something of equal value.

The route, time or distance of that journey.

(transitive) To express (a quantity) in alternative units.

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.

(transitive) To express (a unit of measurement) in terms of another; to furnish a mathematical formula by which a quantity, expressed in the former unit, may be given in the latter.

To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to effect a commutation.

To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion.

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 score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion.

To travel regularly from a place of residence to another place, such as where one's daily work is performed. Often, such travel is performed between a suburb and a nearby city; as, to commute to work.

To score (especially a penalty kick).

Transpose and remain equal in value;

To score a spare.

Travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home

(intransitive) To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief see also sense 3.

Change the order or arrangement of;

(intransitive) To become converted.

Exchange a penalty for a less severe one

To cause to turn; to turn.

Exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category;

To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.

To turn into another language; to translate.

To increase one's individual score, especially from 50 runs (a fifty) to 100 runs (a century), or from a century to a double or triple century.

To perform the action that an online advertisement is intended to induce; to reach the point of conversion.

To transform a material or positional advantage into a win.

A person who has converted to a religion.

A person who is now in favour of something that he or she previously opposed or disliked.

(Canadian football) The equivalent of a conversion in rugby

To cause to turn; to turn.

To change or turn from one state or condition to another; to alter in form, substance, or quality; to transform; to transmute; as, to convert water into ice.

To change or turn from one belief or course to another, as from one religion to another or from one party or sect to another.

To produce the spiritual change called conversion in (any one); to turn from a bad life to a good one; to change the heart and moral character of (any one) from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness.

To apply to any use by a diversion from the proper or intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally.

To exchange for some specified equivalent; as, to convert goods into money.

To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.

To turn into another language; to translate.

To be turned or changed in character or direction; to undergo a change, physically or morally.

A person who is converted from one opinion or practice to another; a person who is won over to, or heartily embraces, a creed, religious system, or party, in which he has not previously believed; especially, one who turns from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness, or from unbelief to Christianity.

A lay friar or brother, permitted to enter a monastery for the service of the house, but without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir.

A person who has been converted to another religious or political belief

Change the nature, purpose, or function of something;

Change from one system to another or to a new plan or policy;

Change religious beliefs, or adopt a religious belief;

Exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category;

Cause to adopt a new or different faith;

Score an extra point or points after touchdown by kicking the ball through the uprights or advancing the ball into the endzone;

Complete successfully;

Score (a spare)

Make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something;

Exchange a penalty for a less severe one

Change in nature, purpose, or function; especially undergo a chemical change;