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TRANSPORTATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of expelling a person from their native land
Example:
the sentence was one of transportation for life
Synonyms:
deportation; exile; expatriation; transportation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("transportation" is a kind of...):
banishment; proscription (rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone)
Instance hyponyms:
Babylonian Captivity (the deportation of the Jews to Babylonia by Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of moving something from one location to another
Synonyms:
conveyance; transfer; transferral; transport; transportation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("transportation" is a kind of...):
movement (the act of changing the location of something)
Meronyms (parts of "transportation"):
pickup (the act of taking aboard passengers or freight)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transportation"):
transshipment (the transfer from one conveyance to another for shipment)
airlift; lift (transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable))
connection; connexion (shifting from one form of transportation to another)
bringing; delivery (the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail))
drive (the act of driving a herd of animals overland)
carry (the act of carrying something)
lighterage (the transportation of goods on a lighter)
relocation; resettlement (the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind))
teleportation (a hypothetical mode of instantaneous transportation; matter is dematerialized at one place and recreated at another)
Derivation:
transport (move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials
Synonyms:
shipping; transport; transportation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("transportation" is a kind of...):
business; business enterprise; commercial enterprise (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects)
Domain member category:
off-line (not on a regular route of a transportation system)
on-line; online (on a regular route of a railroad or bus or airline system)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transportation"):
ferry; ferrying (transport by boat or aircraft)
express; expressage (rapid transport of goods)
freight; freightage (transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates)
hauling; truckage; trucking (the activity of transporting goods by truck)
navigation (ship traffic)
air transport; air transportation (transportation by air)
Holonyms ("transportation" is a part of...):
commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))
Derivation:
transport (transport commercially)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods
Synonyms:
transit; transportation; transportation system
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("transportation" is a kind of...):
facility; installation (a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry)
Meronyms (parts of "transportation"):
line (a commercial organization serving as a common carrier)
bridge; span (a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.)
public transport (conveyance for passengers or mail or freight)
airfield; field; flying field; landing field (a place where planes take off and land)
depot; terminal; terminus (station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods)
way (any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transportation"):
air transportation system (a transportation system for moving passengers or goods by air)
highway system (a transportation system consisting of roads for motor transport)
public transit (a public transportation system for moving passengers)
short line (a transportation system that operates over relatively short distances)
telferage; telpherage (a transportation system in which cars (telphers) are suspended from cables and operated on electricity)
Holonyms ("transportation" is a part of...):
base; infrastructure (the stock of basic facilities and capital equipment needed for the functioning of a country or area)
Derivation:
transport (move something or somebody around; usually over long distances)
Sense 5
Meaning:
The United States federal department that institutes and coordinates national transportation programs; created in 1966
Synonyms:
Department of Transportation; DoT; Transportation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Transportation" is a kind of...):
executive department (a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "Transportation"):
FAA; Federal Aviation Administration (an agency in the Department of Transportation that is responsible for the safety of civilian aviation)
Transportation Security Administration; TSA (an agency established in 2001 to safeguard United States transportation systems and insure safe air travel)
U. S. Coast Guard; United States Coast Guard; US Coast Guard (an agency of the Department of Transportation responsible for patrolling shores and facilitating nautical commerce)
Sense 6
Meaning:
The sum charged for riding in a public conveyance
Synonyms:
fare; transportation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("transportation" is a kind of...):
charge (the price charged for some article or service)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transportation"):
airfare (the fare charged for traveling by airplane)
bus fare; carfare (the fare charged for riding a bus or streetcar)
cab fare; taxi fare (the fare charged for riding in a taxicab)
train fare (the fare charged for traveling by train)
Context examples:
A question about an individual's distress related to their practical problems with transportation.
(Distress over Practical Problem with Transportation, NCI Thesaurus)
An autosomal recessive hereditary disorder characterized by defective transportation of cystine across the lysosomal membranes and systemic deposition of cystine crystals in the body.
(Cystinosis, NCI Thesaurus)
The report recommends the use of cleaner, renewable energy sources, less dependence on private cars in favor of public transportation, and better waste management systems.
(WAir Pollution a Health Risk for Children, Lisa Schlein/VOA)
He solved the difficulty of transportation that was too much for the other's aching head.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
As Armitage it was that I entered a London banking house, and as Armitage I was convicted of breaking my country’s laws, and was sentenced to transportation.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The research was conducted in partnership with the International Council on Clean Transportation, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization, and Environmental Health Analytics LLC.
(Diesel Pollutes More Than Lab Tests Detect, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Disability Assessment for Dementia (DAD) Safely take the adequate mode of transportation (car, bus, taxi)?
(DAD - Safely Take the Adequate Mode of Transportation, NCI Thesaurus)
Because men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Disability Assessment for Dementia (DAD) Adequately organize an outing with respect to transportation, keys, destination, weather, necessary money, shopping list?
(DAD - Adequately Organize an Outing with Respect to Transportation, Keys, Destination, Weather, Money, Shopping List, NCI Thesaurus)
A licensed registered nurse with a certification that indicates specialization in providing nursing care to patients during ground transportation.
(Certified Transport Registered Nurse, NCI Thesaurus)
