Carting vs Transport - What's the difference?
carting | transport |
The transporting of someone in a cart through the streets as part of a public punishment or humiliation.
*2012 , Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex , Penguin 2013, p. 15:
*:When Rowland Hill, Lord Mayor in 1550, instigated the carting of notable citizens for unchastity, several of them ‘told him that it was not right to be so severe […]’.
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.
* Milton
* South
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.
As verbs the difference between carting and transport
is that carting is present participle of lang=en while transport is to carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.As nouns the difference between carting and transport
is that carting is the transporting of someone in a cart through the streets as part of a public punishment or humiliation while transport is an act of transporting; conveyance.carting
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(en verb)- to transport''' goods; to '''transport troops
- Music transports the soul.
- [They] laugh as if transported with some fit / Of passion.
- We shall then be transported with a nobler wonder.
