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Trucking vs Transport - What's the difference?

trucking | transport |

As nouns the difference between trucking and transport

is that trucking is trading, bartering while transport is an act of transporting; conveyance.

As verbs the difference between trucking and transport

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

trucking

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Trading, bartering.
  • *1624 , John Smith, Generall Historie , in Kupperman 1988, p. 143:
  • *:This they were wont to use also for hatchets, but now by trucking they have plentie of the same forme of yron.
  • (US) the conveyance of freight by trucks.
  • (broadcasting) Lateral movement of the camera.

    • Synonyms

    * freight (verb, transitive)

    Verb

    (head)

    • 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 ----