Convoy vs Traffic - What's the difference?
convoy | traffic |
(nautical) One or more merchant ships sailing in company to the same general destination under the protection of naval vessels
A group of vehicles travelling together for safety, especially one with an escort
To escort a group of vehicles, and provide protection.
* Emerson
Pedestrians or vehicles on roads, or the flux or passage thereof.
Commercial transportation or exchange of goods, or the movement of passengers or people.
* 1719 , :
* 2007 , John Darwin, After Tamerlane , Penguin 2008, p. 12:
Illegal trade or exchange of goods, often drugs.
Exchange or flux of information, messages or data, as in a computer or telephone network.
Commodities of the market.
* John Gay
To pass goods and commodities from one person to another for an equivalent in goods or money; to buy or sell goods; to barter; to trade.
To trade meanly or mercenarily; to bargain.
To exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.
In transitive terms the difference between convoy and traffic
is that convoy is to escort a group of vehicles, and provide protection while traffic is to exchange in traffic; to effect by a bargain or for a consideration.As a proper noun Convoy
is a village in Ireland.convoy
English
Noun
(wikipedia convoy) (en noun)Verb
(en verb)- A frigate convoys a merchantman.
- I know ye skilful to convoy / The total freight of hope and joy.
External links
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English
(wikipedia traffic)Alternative forms
* traffickNoun
(-)- Traffic is slow at rush hour.
- I had three large axes, and abundance of hatchets (for we carried the hatchets for traffic with the Indians).
- It's units of study are regions or oceans, long-distance trades [...], the traffic of cults and beliefs between cultures and continents.
- You'll see a draggled damsel / From Billingsgate her fishy traffic bear.
