change vs commute

change

verb
  • To transfer to another vehicle (train, bus, etc.) 

  • To replace one's clothing. 

  • To replace the clothing of (the one wearing it). 

  • To change hand while riding (a horse). 

  • To become something different. 

  • To make something into something else. 

  • To replace. 

noun
  • The process of becoming different. 

  • A change-up pitch. 

  • An amount of cash, usually in the form of coins, but sometimes inclusive of paper money. 

  • Small denominations of money given in exchange for a larger denomination. 

  • Balance of money returned from the sum paid after deducting the price of a purchase. 

  • A transfer between vehicles. 

  • Any order in which a number of bells are struck, other than that of the diatonic scale. 

  • A replacement. 

commute

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

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

  • To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense. 

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

  • To journey, to make a journey 

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

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

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

  • The route, time or distance of that journey. 

How often have the words change and commute occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )