English > conveyance: 5 senses > noun 3, artifact| Meaning | Something that serves as a means of transportation. |
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| Synonym | transport |
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| Narrower | dolly | conveyance consisting of a wheeled platform for moving heavy objects |
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| dolly | conveyance consisting of a wheeled support on which a camera can be mounted |
| horsebox | A conveyance (railroad car or trailer) for transporting / transporting racehorses |
| litter | conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers |
| mail | A conveyance that transports / transports the letters and packages that are conveyed by the postal system |
| public transport | conveyance for passengers or mail / mail or freight |
| roll-on roll-off | A method of transport (as a ferry or train or plane) that vehicles roll onto at the beginning and roll off of at the destination |
| shipping, cargo ships, merchant marine, merchant vessels | conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry |
| sidecar | conveyance consisting of a small carrier attached to the side of a motorcycle |
| ski tow, ski lift, lift | A powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill |
| telpher, telfer | One of the conveyances (or cars) in a telpherage |
| trailer | A large transport conveyance designed to be pulled by a truck or tractor |
| tramway, tram, aerial tramway, cable tramway, ropeway | A conveyance that transports / transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers |
| vehicle | A conveyance that transports people or objects |
| Broader | instrumentality, instrumentation | An artifact (or system of artifacts) that is instrumental in accomplishing some end |
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| Spanish | medio de transporte, medio, transporte |
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| Catalan | mitjà de transport, transport, vehicle |
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English > conveyance: 5 senses > noun 5, act| Meaning | The act of moving something from one location to another. |
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| Synonyms | transportation, transport, transfer, transferral |
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| Parts | pickup | The act of taking aboard passengers or freight |
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| Narrower | airlift, lift | transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable) |
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| carry | The act of carrying something |
| connection, connexion | shifting from one form of transportation to another |
| delivery, bringing | The act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail) |
| drive | The act of driving a herd of animals overland |
| lighterage | The transportation of goods on a lighter |
| resettlement, relocation | 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 |
| transshipment | The transfer from one conveyance to another for shipment |
| Broader | movement | The act of changing the location of something |
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| Spanish | transferencia, transporte |
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| Catalan | transferència, transport |
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| Verbs | convey | go or come after and bring or take back |
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| convey | take something or somebody with oneself somewhere |
