Locomotion vs Transport - What's the difference?
locomotion | transport |
The ability to move from place to place, or the act of doing so.
(biology) Self-powered motion by which a whole organism changes its location through walking, running, jumping, crawling, swimming or flying.
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.
As nouns the difference between locomotion and transport
is that locomotion is the ability to move from place to place, or the act of doing so while transport is an act of transporting; conveyance.As a verb transport is
to carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.locomotion
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(en-noun)Derived terms
* locomotive * locomotor ----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.