Transportation vs Shipping - What's the difference?
transportation | shipping |
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
The transportation of goods.
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, title= 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
As nouns the difference between transportation and shipping
is that transportation is the act of transporting, or the state of being transported; conveyance, often of people, goods etc while shipping is the transportation of goods.As a verb shipping is
present participle of lang=en.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."
shipping
English
(wikipedia shipping)Etymology 1
From (etyl) schipping, schyppynge, from (etyl) schippen, .Noun
The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
- God send 'em good shipping .
