Traffic vs Abduction - What's the difference?
traffic | abduction |
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.
Leading away; a carrying away.
(physiology) The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; the movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body. (rfex)
(logic) A syllogism or form of argument in which the major premise is evident, but the minor is only probable.
* 2005 , Ronnie Cann, Ruth Kempson, Lutz Marten, The Dynamics of Language, an Introduction , page 256:
The wrongful, and usually forcible, carrying off of a human being.
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As nouns the difference between traffic and abduction
is that traffic is pedestrians or vehicles on roads, or the flux or passage thereof while abduction is leading away; a carrying away .As a verb traffic
is 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.traffic
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.
Derived terms
* traffic boy * traffic jamVerb
(traffick)References
*abduction
English
(wikipedia abduction)Noun
(en noun)- The significance of such a step is that it is not morphologically triggered: it is a step of abduction , and what is required here is a meta-level process of reasoning.
- the abduction of a child