Transmission vs. Transport — What's the Difference?

The action or process of transmitting something or the state of being transmitted

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.

The mechanism by which power is transmitted from an engine to the axle in a motor vehicle

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

The act or process of transmitting.

Overwhelm (someone) with a strong emotion, especially joy

The fact of being transmitted.

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

Something, such as a message, that is transmitted.

An overwhelmingly strong emotion

An assembly, as in a motor vehicle, that transmits power from an engine to a driving axle, usually having a manually or automatically adjustable mechanism to control the balance of power and speed. Also called gearbox.

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

The sending of a signal, picture, or other information from a transmitter.

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

The act of transmitting, e.g. data or electric power.

To send abroad to a penal colony; deport.

The fact of being transmitted.

The act of transporting; conveyance.

Something that is transmitted, such as a message, picture, or a disease; the sending of such a thing.

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

(biology) The passage of a nerve impulse across synapses.

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

(automotive) An assembly of gears through which power is transmitted from the engine to the driveshaft in a motor car / automobile; a gearbox.

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

(legal) The right possessed by an heir or legatee of transmitting to his successor(s) any inheritance, legacy, right, or privilege, to which he is entitled, even if he should die without enjoying or exercising it.

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

(medicine, biology) The passing of a communicable disease from an infected host individual or group to a conspecific individual or group.

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

The act of transmitting, or the state of being transmitted; as, the transmission of letters, writings, papers, news, and the like, from one country to another; the transmission of rights, titles, or privileges, from father to son, or from one generation to another.

A deported convict.

The right possessed by an heir or legatee of transmitting to his successor or successors any inheritance, legacy, right, or privilege, to which he is entitled, even if he should die without enjoying or exercising it.

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

The mechanism within a vehicle which transmits rotational power from the engine to the axle of the wheel propelling the vehicle; it includes the gears and gear-changing mechanism as well as the propeller shaft.

(historical) To deport to a penal colony.

The process or event of sending signals by means of a radio-frequency wave from an electronic transmitter to a receiving device.

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

The act of sending a message; causing a message to be transmitted

An act of transporting; conveyance.

Communication by means of transmitted signals

The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.

The fraction of radiant energy that passes through a substance

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

An incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted

(Canada) A tractor-trailer.

The gears that transmit power from an automobile engine via the driveshaft to the live axle

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

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

(historical) A deported convict.

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

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

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

Transportation; carriage; conveyance.

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.

Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.

A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.

Something that serves as a means of transportation

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

The commercial enterprise of transporting goods and materials

A state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion;

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

Move something or somebody around; usually over long distances

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

Hold spellbound

Transport commercially

Send from one person or place to another;