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Moving vs. Transport — What's the Difference?

Moving vs. Transport — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Moving and Transport

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Moving

Changing or capable of changing position
A moving target.

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.

Moving

Relating to or involved in a transfer of furnishings from one location to another
Moving expenses.
Moving van.

Transport

Take or carry (people or goods) from one place to another by means of a vehicle, aircraft, or ship
The bulk of freight traffic was transported by lorry

Moving

Causing or producing motion.
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Transport

Overwhelm (someone) with a strong emotion, especially joy
She was transported with pleasure

Moving

Involving a motor vehicle in motion
A moving violation.

Transport

A system or means of conveying people or goods from place to place
Air transport
Many possess their own forms of transport

Moving

Arousing or capable of arousing deep emotion
A moving account of the tragedy.

Transport

An overwhelmingly strong emotion
Art can send people into transports of delight

Moving

(not comparable) That moves or move.
Moving pictures

Transport

To move or carry (goods, for example) from one place to another; convey.

Moving

That causes someone to feel emotion.

Transport

To cause to feel strong emotion, especially joy; carry away; enrapture.

Moving

Present participle of move

Transport

To send abroad to a penal colony; deport.

Moving

(uncountable) The relocation of goods

Transport

The act of transporting; conveyance.

Moving

(countable) A causing of a movement
The rats' movings are willed movements.

Transport

The condition of being transported by emotion; joy or rapture.

Moving

Changing place or posture; causing motion or action; as, a moving car, or power.

Transport

A ship or aircraft used to transport troops or military equipment.

Moving

Exciting movement of the mind or feelings; adapted to move the sympathies, passions, or affections; touching; pathetic; as, a moving appeal.
I sang an old moving story.

Transport

A vehicle, such as an aircraft, used to transport passengers, mail, or freight.

Moving

The act of changing place or posture; esp., the act of changing one's dwelling place or place of business.

Transport

The system of transporting passengers or goods in a particular country or area.

Moving

In motion;
A constantly moving crowd
The moving parts of the machine

Transport

The vehicles, such as buses and trains, used in such a system.

Moving

Arousing or capable of arousing deep emotion;
She laid her case of destitution before him in a very moving letter

Transport

A deported convict.

Moving

Used of a series of photographs presented so as to create the illusion of motion;
Her ambition was to be in moving pictures or `the movies'

Transport

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

Transport

(historical) To deport to a penal colony.

Transport

(figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.
Music transports the soul.

Transport

An act of transporting; conveyance.

Transport

The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.

Transport

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

Transport

(Canada) A tractor-trailer.

Transport

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

Transport

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

Transport

(historical) A deported convict.

Transport

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

Transport

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

Transport

To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul.
[They] laugh as if transported with some fitOf passion.
We shall then be transported with a nobler . . . wonder.

Transport

Transportation; carriage; conveyance.
The Romans . . . stipulated with the Carthaginians to furnish them with ships for transport and war.

Transport

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.

Transport

Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.
With transport views the airy rule his own,And swells on an imaginary throne.
Say not, in transports of despair,That all your hopes are fled.

Transport

A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.

Transport

Something that serves as a means of transportation

Transport

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

Transport

The commercial enterprise of transporting goods and materials

Transport

A state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion;
Listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture

Transport

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

Transport

Move something or somebody around; usually over long distances

Transport

Move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body;
You must carry your camping gear
Carry the suitcases to the car
This train is carrying nuclear waste
These pipes carry waste water into the river

Transport

Hold spellbound

Transport

Transport commercially

Transport

Send from one person or place to another;
Transmit a message

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