Transport vs. Conveyor — What's the Difference?

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.

One that conveys, especially a mechanical apparatus that transports materials, packages, or items being assembled from one place to another.

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

A person that conveys, transports or delivers.

Overwhelm (someone) with a strong emotion, especially joy

Anything that conveys, transports or delivers.

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

A mechanical arrangement for transporting material or objects, generally over short or moderate distances, as from one part of a building to another.#* text=The 1.7 mile-long conveyor system was commissioned in November 2022, and will remove one million lorry movements from the roads around West London.

An overwhelmingly strong emotion

A contrivance for carrying objects from place to place; esp., one for conveying grain, coal, etc., - as a spiral or screw turning in a pipe or trough, an endless belt with buckets, or a truck running along a rope.

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

A person who conveys (carries or transmits);

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

A moving belt that transports objects (as in a factory)

To send abroad to a penal colony; deport.

The act of transporting; conveyance.

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

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

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

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

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

A deported convict.

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

(historical) To deport to a penal colony.

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

An act of transporting; conveyance.

The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.

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

(Canada) A tractor-trailer.

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;