Transport vs. Transit

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.

Transitnoun

The act of passing over, across, or through something.

Transitnoun

The conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance.

Transitnoun

(astronomy) The passage of a celestial body across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body.

Transitnoun

A surveying instrument rather like a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles.

Transitnoun

(navigation) An imaginary line between two objects whose positions are known. When the navigator sees one object directly in front of the other, the navigator knows that his position is on the transit.

Transitnoun

(British) A Ford Transit van, see Transit. en

Transitnoun

(North America) Public transport system.

Transitverb

To pass over, across or through something.

Transitverb

To revolve an instrument about its horizontal axis so as to reverse its direction.

Transitverb

To make a transit.

Transitverb

(Internet) To carry communications traffic to and from a customer or another network on a compensation basis as opposed to peerage in which the traffic to and from another network is carried on an equivalency basis or without charge.

Transitnoun

The act of passing; passage through or over.

Transitnoun

The act or process of causing to pass; conveyance; as, the transit of goods through a country.

Transitnoun

A line or route of passage or conveyance; as, the Nicaragua transit.

Transitnoun

The passage of a heavenly body over the meridian of a place, or through the field of a telescope.

Transitnoun

An instrument resembling a theodolite, used by surveyors and engineers; - called also transit compass, and surveyor's transit.

Transitverb

To pass over the disk of (a heavenly body).

Transitnoun

a surveying instrument for measuring horizontal and vertical angles, consisting of a small telescope mounted on a tripod

Transitnoun

a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods

Transitnoun

a journey usually by ship;

Transitverb

make a passage or journey from one place to another

Transitverb

pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place);

Transitverb

revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction

Transitverb

cause or enable to pass through;

Transitnoun

the carrying of people or things from one place to another

Transitnoun

the conveyance of passengers on public transport.

Transitnoun

the action of passing through or across a place

Transitnoun

the passage of an inferior planet across the face of the sun, or of a moon or its shadow across the face of a planet

Transitnoun

the apparent passage of a celestial body across the meridian of a place.

Transitnoun

the passage of a celestial body through a specified sign, house, or area of a chart.

Transitverb

pass across or through (an area)

Transitverb

(of a planet or other celestial body) pass across (the face of another body, or a meridian)

Transitverb

(of a celestial body) pass across (a specified sign, house, or area of a chart).