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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