Transportation vs Driving - What's the difference?
transportation | driving |
The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; conveyance, often of people, goods etc.
(historical) Deportation to a penal colony.
(US) A means of conveyance.
(US) A ticket or fare.
* 1898 , Willa Cather, The Westbound Train
That drives (a mechanism or process).
That drives forcefully; strong; forceful; violent
The action of the verb to drive in any sense.
In particular, the action of operating a motor vehicle.
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As nouns the difference between transportation and driving
is that transportation is transportation while driving is the action of the verb to drive in any sense.As a verb driving is
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that drives (a mechanism or process).transportation
English
Noun
(-)- We have to get people out of their cars and encourage them to use alternative forms of transportation .
- Mulligan's sentence was commuted from death to transportation .
- Nice transportation , dude, but your brake lights are busted.
- 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."
driving
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* driving force * driving notes * driving power * driving rain * driving spirit * driving windNoun
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