Transport vs Convoy - What's the difference?
transport | convoy | Related terms |
To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.
(historical) To deport to a penal colony.
(figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.
* Milton
* South
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.
(nautical) One or more merchant ships sailing in company to the same general destination under the protection of naval vessels
A group of vehicles travelling together for safety, especially one with an escort
To escort a group of vehicles, and provide protection.
* Emerson
Transport is a related term of convoy.
As a noun transport
is transport, transportation.As a proper noun convoy is
a village in ireland.transport
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Verb
(en verb)- to transport''' goods; to '''transport troops
- Music transports the soul.
- [They] laugh as if transported with some fit / Of passion.
- 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, enraptureNoun
(wikipedia transport)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, expatriateDerived terms
* means of transport English heteronyms ----convoy
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Noun
(wikipedia convoy) (en noun)Verb
(en verb)- A frigate convoys a merchantman.
- I know ye skilful to convoy / The total freight of hope and joy.