commute vs remain

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. 

remain

verb
  • To continue in a state of being. 

  • To await; to be left to. 

  • To continue unchanged in place, form, or condition, or undiminished in quantity; to abide; to stay; to endure; to last. 

  • To be left after a number or quantity has been subtracted or cut off; to be left as not included or comprised. 

  • To stay after others or other parts have been removed or otherwise disappeared. 

noun
  • That which is left; relic; remainder. 

  • That which is left of a human being after the life is gone; relics; a dead body. 

  • Posthumous works or productions, especially literary works. 

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