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Roundtrip vs Transport - What's the difference?

roundtrip | transport |

As nouns the difference between roundtrip and transport

is that roundtrip is alternative form of round trip while transport is an act of transporting; conveyance.

As verbs the difference between roundtrip and transport

is that roundtrip is to export (a file, data, etc.) and eventually import it again without loss of fidelity while transport is to carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.

roundtrip

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • * {{quote-news, 1988, May 20, Michael Miner, Screwed by the Tribune, Part 3; Screwed by the Sun-Times; Screws Loose, Chicago Reader citation
  • , passage=Left with only her Sun-Times subscribers, she faced a 35-mile roundtrip to deliver to four of them. }}

    Verb

    (roundtripp)
  • (computing) To export (a file, data, etc.) and eventually import it again without loss of fidelity.
  • * 2010 , Phil Green, Michael Kriss, Color Management: Understanding and Using ICC Profiles (page 284)
  • In the colorimetric intents only the values within the gamut of the data encoding can be roundtripped accurately
  • * 2010 , Ramesh Bangia, Dictionary of Information Technology (page 449)
  • In some cases, roundtripping can involve repeated conversions of the file from one format to another and back. Frequent roundtripping may be a concern because each conversion has the potential to introduce unwanted changes to the file.

    Anagrams

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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

    Derived terms

    * means of transport English heteronyms ----