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Transport vs Shipping - What's the difference?

transport | shipping |

As verbs the difference between transport and shipping

is that transport is to carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey while shipping is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between transport and shipping

is that transport is an act of transporting; conveyance while shipping is the transportation of goods.

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

    Related terms

    * antitransport * transportability * transportable * transportage * transportation * transporter * transportive

    Derived terms

    * means of transport English heteronyms ----

    shipping

    English

    (wikipedia shipping)

    Etymology 1

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

    Noun

  • The transportation of goods.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The new masters and commanders , passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
  • 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)