Word Meanings - COMMUTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

• Thallic
  Of or pertaining to thallium; derived from, or containing, thallium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence as contrasted with the thallous compounds; as, thallic oxide.
• Thoracostraca
  An extensive division of Crustacea, having a dorsal shield or carapec/ //niting all, or nearly all, of the thoracic somites to the head. It includes the crabs, lobsters, shrimps, and similar species.
• Theocratic
  Alt. of Theocratical
• Thresh-fold
  Threshold.
• Thermochrosy
  The property possessed by heat of being composed, like light, of rays of different degrees of refrangibility, which are unequal in rate or degree of transmission through diathermic substances.
• Thunderhead
  A rounded mass of cloud, with shining white edges; a cumulus, -- often appearing before a thunderstorm.
• THERMOREGULATOR
  A device for the automatic regulation of temperature; a thermostat.
• Thanatology
  A description, or the doctrine, of death.
• Thorntail
  A beautiful South American humming bird (Gouldia Popelairii), having the six outer tail feathers long, slender, and pointed. The head is ornamented with a long, pointed crest.
• Theologized
  of Theologize
• Thriftily
  In a thrifty manner.
• Thermometric
  Alt. of Thermometrical
• Thurible
  A censer of metal, for burning incense, having various forms, held in the hand or suspended by chains; -- used especially at mass, vespers, and other solemn services.
• Deathless
  Not subject to death, destruction, or extinction; immortal; undying; imperishable; as, deathless beings; deathless fame.
• THICKWINDED
  Affected with thick wind.
• Thankworthiness
  The quality or state of being thankworthy.
• Thoroughwax
  An umbelliferous plant (Bupleurum rotundifolium) with perfoliate leaves.
• Theophilanthropism
  The doctrine of the theophilanthropists; theophilanthropy.
• Thriving
  of Thrive
• Thermotics
  The science of heat.

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