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Shipping vs Transit - What's the difference?

shipping | transit |

As nouns the difference between shipping and transit

is that shipping is the transportation of goods while transit is the act of passing over, across, or through something.

As verbs the difference between shipping and transit

is that shipping is present participle of lang=en while transit is to pass over, across or through something.

shipping

English

(wikipedia shipping)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) schipping, schyppynge, from (etyl) schippen, .

Noun

  • The transportation of goods.
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  • The body of ships belonging to one nation, port or industry.
  • Passage or transport on a ship.
  • The cost of sending an item or package via postal services.
  • Navigation.
  • * Shakespeare
    • God send 'em good shipping .
    Derived terms
    * shipping lane

    Etymology 2

    From .

    Verb

    (head)

    • transit

    English

    Noun

  • The act of passing over, across, or through something.
  • * Burke
    • In France you are now in the transit from one form of government to another.
  • The conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance.
    • the transit of goods through a country
  • (astronomy) The passage of a celestial body across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body.
  • A surveying instrument rather like a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles.
  • (navigation) an imaginary line between two objects whose positions are known. When the navigator sees one object directly in front of the other, the navigator knows that his position is on the transit.
  • (British) a van. (rfex)
  • (Internet) to carry communications traffic to and from a customer or another network on a compensation basis as opposed to peerage in which the traffic to and from another network is carried on an equivalency basis or without charge.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To pass over, across or through something
  • To revolve an instrument about its horizontal axis so as to reverse its direction
  • (astronomy) To make a transit

    • Related terms

    * transience * transiency * transient * transition * transitional * transitionary * transitionist * transitive * transitively * transitory

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