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As nouns the difference between distribution and transport

is that distribution is distribution while transport is transport, transportation.

distribution

English

Alternative forms

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Noun

(en noun)
  • An act of distributing or state of being distributed.
  • An apportionment by law (of funds, property).
  • (business, marketing) The process by which goods get to final consumers over a geographical market, including storing, selling, shipping and advertising.
  • The frequency of occurrence or extent of existence.
  • Anything distributed; portion; share.
  • * Atterbury
    • our charitable distributions
  • The result of distributing; arrangement.
  • (mathematics, statistics) A probability distribution; the set of relative likelihoods that a variable will have a value in a given interval.
  • (computing) A set of bundled software components; distro.
  • (economics) The apportionment of income or wealth in a population.
    • The wealth distribution became extremely skewed in the kleptocracy.
  • (finance) The process or result of the sale of securities, especially their placement among investors with long-term investment strategies.
  • The resolution of a whole into its parts.
  • The process of sorting the types and placing them in their proper boxes in the cases.
  • The steps or operations by which steam is supplied to and withdrawn from the cylinder at each stroke of the piston: admission, suppression or cutting off, release or exhaust, and compression of exhaust steam prior to the next admission.
  • (lb)
  • * 1553', , ''The Arte of Rhetorique'' (1962), book iii, folio 99, page 209 ''s.v.'' “' Di?tribucion ”:
    • It is al?o called a di?tribucion , when we diuide the whole, into ?euerall partes, and ?aie we haue foure poynctes, whereof we purpo?e to ?peake, comp?ehendyng our whole talke within compa??e of the?ame.
  • * 1728', (Ephraim Chambers), '''' I, page 230/2 ''s.v.'' “' Di?tribution ²”:
    • Di?tribution, in Rhetoric, a Kind of De?cription ; or a Figure, whereby an orderly Divi?ion, and Enumeration is made of the principal Qualities of a Subject.

    Derived terms

    (Derived terms) * distributional * distributionism * frequency distribution * income distribution * multidistribution * property distribution * stable distribution * probability distribution * tempered distribution

    Related terms

    * distributee * distributive * distributor

    References

    * “ Distribution]” on page 534 of § 1 (D, ed. ) of volume III (D–E, 1897) of [[w:Oxford English Dictionary, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles] (1st ed.)

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    transport

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.
    • to transport''' goods; to '''transport troops
  • (historical) To deport to a penal colony.
  • (figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.
    • Music transports the soul.
  • * Milton
    • [They] laugh as if transported with some fit / Of passion.
  • * South
    • We shall then be transported with a nobler wonder.

    Synonyms

    * (carry or bear from one place to another) convey, ferry, move, relocate, shift, ship * banish, deport, exile, expatriate, extradite * (move someone to strong emotion) carry away, enrapture

    Noun

    (wikipedia transport)
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * (act of transporting) conveyance, ferrying, moving, relocation, shifting, shipping * (state of being transported by emotion) rapture * * * (system of transporting people) See public transport * (device that moves recording tape across the heads of a recorder) * deportee, exile, expatriate

    Related terms

    * antitransport * transportability * transportable * transportage * transportation * transporter * transportive

    Derived terms

    * means of transport English heteronyms ----