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Stress vs Transport - What's the difference?

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Stress is a related term of transport.


As nouns the difference between stress and transport

is that stress is stress (emotional pressure) while transport is transport, transportation.

stress

English

Noun

  • (countable, physics) The internal distribution of force per unit area (pressure) within a body reacting to applied forces which causes strain or deformation and is typically symbolised by
  • (countable, physics) externally applied to a body which cause internal stress within the body.
  • (uncountable) Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal.
  • Go easy on him, he's been under a lot of stress lately.
  • (uncountable, phonetics) The emphasis placed on a syllable of a word.
  • Some people put the stress on the first syllable of “controversy”; others put it on the second.
  • (uncountable) Emphasis placed on words in speaking.
  • (uncountable) Emphasis placed on a particular point in an argument or discussion (whether spoken or written).
  • (Spenser)
  • (Scotland, legal) distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.
  • Synonyms

    * (phonetics) accent, emphasis * (on words in speaking) emphasis * (on a point) emphasis

    Verb

  • To apply force to (a body or structure) causing strain.
  • To apply emotional pressure to (a person or animal).
  • (informal) To suffer stress; to worry or be agitated.
  • To emphasise (a syllable of a word).
  • “Emphasis” is stressed on the first syllable, but “emphatic” is stressed on the second.
  • To emphasise (words in speaking).
  • To emphasise (a point) in an argument or discussion.
  • I must stress that this information is given in strict confidence.

    Synonyms

    * (phonetics) emphasise/emphasize * (on words in speaking) emphasise/emphasize * (on a point) emphasise/emphasize, underline

    Derived terms

    * stressed * stress out

    References

    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 ----