die Beförderung von Personen u. Sachen.
ETYM Old Fren. cariage luggage, carriage, chariage carriage, cart, baggage, French charriage, cartage, wagoning, from Old Fren. carier, charier, French charrier, to cart. Related to Carry.
1. A machine part that carries something else.
2. A wheeled vehicle drawn by horses; SYN. equipage, rig.
3. Characteristic way of bearing one's body; SYN. bearing, posture.
1. Act of transferring property title from one person to another; SYN. conveyance of title, conveyancing, conveying.
2. Document effecting a property transfer.
3. Something that serves as a means of transportation; SYN. transport.
4. The transmission of information; SYN. imparting, impartation.
5. Law, act or document by which title to property is transferred.
ETYM AS. handlung.
1. Manual (or mechanical) carrying or moving or delivering or working with something.
2. The action of touching with the hands or the skillful use of the hands; SYN. manipulation.
1. Carrying boats and supplies overland.
2. Overland route between navigable waterways.
3. The cost of carrying or transporting.
1. The charge for carrying burdens by porters.
2. The transportation of burdens by porters.
ETYM Latin trahere, tractum, to draw: cf. French traction.
1. The adhesive friction of a wheel on a rail, a rope on a pulley, or the like.
2. Specifically, the act of drawing a body along a plane by motive power, as the drawing of a carriage by men or horses, the towing of a boat by a tug.
3. Attraction; a drawing toward.
4. The act of drawing, or the state of being drawn.
ETYM French See Transport.
An exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes.
ETYM Latin transportatio: cf. French transportation.
1. The act of transporting something from one location to another; SYN. transfer, transferral, conveyance.
2. The commercial enterprise of transporting goods and materials; SYN. shipping, transport.