commute vs metre

commute

verb
  • To journey, to make a journey 

  • 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 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 

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

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

  • The route, time or distance of that journey. 

metre

verb
  • To put into metrical form. 

noun
  • The basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Système International d'Unités), equal to the distance travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/299 792 458 seconds. The metre is equal to 39+⁴⁷⁄₁₂₇ (approximately 39.37) imperial inches. 

  • The rhythm or measure in verse and musical composition. 

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