Transportation vs Migration - What's the difference?
transportation | migration |
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
An instance of moving to live in another place for a while.
Seasonal moving for animals, birds or fishes to breed or find a new home.
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, author=Paul Bartel, Ashli Moore
, title=Avian Migration: The Ultimate Red-Eye Flight
, volume=101, issue=1, page=47–48
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Movement in general.
(computing) Instance of changing a platform from an environment to another one.
As nouns the difference between transportation and migration
is that transportation is transportation while migration is .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."
migration
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported […] that pine siskins (Spinus pinus ) undergo an irregular, nomadic type of nocturnal migration .}}
- The migration of lead from a can to the food inside it can cause lead poisoning.