The three types of tonsils are: Palantine tonsils-These are the most commonly removed tonsils, located at the back of your throat.
Definition of commute for English Language Learners. : 1  to travel regularly to and from a place and especially between where you live and where you work. 2  law : to change (a punishment) to a less severe one.
Word Origin & History. commute mid-15c., from L. commutare to often change, to change altogether, from com- intensive prefix + mutare to change (see mutable). Sense of make less severe is 1633. Sense of go back and forth to work is 1889, from commutation ticket season pass (on a railroad, streetcar line, etc.), from commute in its sense of to change one kind of payment into another (1795), especially to combine a number of payments into a single one..