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Transportation vs Buggy - What's the difference?

transportation | buggy |

As nouns the difference between transportation and buggy

is that transportation is transportation while buggy is a small horse-drawn cart.

As an adjective buggy is

infested with insects.

transportation

English

Noun

(-)
  • The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; conveyance, often of people, goods etc.
  • We have to get people out of their cars and encourage them to use alternative forms of transportation .
  • (historical) Deportation to a penal colony.
  • Mulligan's sentence was commuted from death to transportation .
  • (US) A means of conveyance.
  • Nice transportation , dude, but your brake lights are busted.
  • (US) A ticket or fare.
  • * 1898 , Willa Cather, The Westbound Train
  • Sybil: [..] That reminds me, I haven't got my passes yet! Have you the transportation here from Cheyenne to San Francisco for Mrs. S. Johnston?"
    (Agent looks grave, goes back and fumbles at the papers on his desk, returns to the window with a slip of paper in his hand.)
    Agent: "We had transportation here made out for such a person, but it was called for several hours ago."

    buggy

    English

    Noun

    (buggies)
  • A small horse-drawn cart.
  • *
  • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy , turned and drove out of town.}}
  • A small motor vehicle, such as a dune buggy.
  • (UK) A pushchair; a stroller.
  • (Canada, southern US) A shopping cart or trolley.
  • Synonyms

    * (pushchair) stroller

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Infested with insects
  • (computing) Containing programming errors
  • This software is so buggy that I don't know how anyone can use it!
  • Resembling an insect
  • Derived terms

    * baby buggy * bugginess * buggy eyes