Transport vs. Commute

Transportverb

To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.

Transportverb

(historical) To deport to a penal colony.

Transportverb

(figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.

Transportnoun

An act of transporting; conveyance.

Transportnoun

The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.

Transportnoun

A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.)

Transportnoun

(Canada) A tractor-trailer.

Transportnoun

The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.

Transportnoun

A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.

Transportnoun

(historical) A deported convict.

Transportverb

To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.

Transportverb

To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish.

Transportverb

To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul.

Transportnoun

Transportation; carriage; conveyance.

Transportnoun

A vessel employed for transporting, especially for carrying soldiers, warlike stores, or provisions, from one place to another, or to convey convicts to their destination; - called also transport ship, transport vessel.

Transportnoun

Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.

Transportnoun

A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.

Transportnoun

something that serves as a means of transportation

Transportnoun

an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes

Transportnoun

the commercial enterprise of transporting goods and materials

Transportnoun

a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion;

Transportnoun

a mechanism that transport magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder

Transportverb

move something or somebody around; usually over long distances

Transportverb

move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body;

Transportverb

hold spellbound

Transportverb

transport commercially

Transportverb

send from one person or place to another;

Transportverb

take or carry (people or goods) from one place to another by means of a vehicle, aircraft, or ship

Transportverb

send (a convict) to a penal colony

Transportverb

cause (someone) to feel that they are in another place or time

Transportverb

overwhelm (someone) with a strong emotion, especially joy

Transportnoun

a system or means of conveying people or goods from place to place

Transportnoun

the action of transporting something or the state of being transported

Transportnoun

a large vehicle, ship, or aircraft used to carry troops or stores

Transportnoun

a convict who was transported to a penal colony.

Transportnoun

an overwhelmingly strong emotion

Transport

Transport (BE) or transportation (AE) is the movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. In other words, the action of transport is defined as a particular movement of an organism or thing from a point A (a place in space) to a point B. Modes of transport include air, land (rail and road), water, cable, pipeline, and space.

Commuteverb

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

Commuteverb

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

Commuteverb

To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense.

Commuteverb

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

Commuteverb

To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution;

Commuteverb

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

Commuteverb

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

Commuteverb

(intransitive) To journey, to make a journey

Commutenoun

A regular journey to or from a place of employment, such as work or school.

Commutenoun

The route, time or distance of that journey.

Commuteverb

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.

Commuteverb

To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution; to effect a commutation.

Commuteverb

To pay, or arrange to pay, in gross instead of part by part; as, to commute for a year's travel over a route.

Commuteverb

to travel regularly from a place of residence to another place, such as where one's daily work is performed. Often, such travel is performed between a suburb and a nearby city; as, to commute to work.

Commuteverb

transpose and remain equal in value;

Commuteverb

travel back and forth regularly, as between one's place of work and home

Commuteverb

change the order or arrangement of;

Commuteverb

exchange a penalty for a less severe one

Commuteverb

exchange or replace with another, usually of the same kind or category;