different between comfort vs transport

English

Etymology

The verb is from Middle English conforten, from Old French conforter, from Late Latin confort? (“to strengthen greatly”), itself from Latin con- (“together”) + fortis (“strong”).

The noun is from Middle English confort, from Old French cunfort, confort, from the stem of Late Latin confort?. It replaced Old English frofor, Middle English frovre.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?m.f?t/
• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /?k?m.f?t/
• (General American) enPR: k?m'f?rt, IPA^(key): /?k?m.f?t/, [?k???.f?t]
• (obsolete) enPR: k?mfôrt', IPA^(key): /k?m?f??t/

Noun

comfort (countable and uncountable, plural comforts)

1. Contentment, ease.

2. Something that offers comfort.

3. A consolation; something relieving suffering or worry.

4. A cause of relief or satisfaction.

Synonyms

• liss

Antonyms

• (contentment, ease): austerity

Translations

Verb

comfort (third-person singular simple present comforts, present participle comforting, simple past and past participle comforted)

1. (transitive) To relieve the distress or suffering of; to provide comfort to.
2. (transitive) To make comfortable. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (obsolete) To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Wyclif to this entry?)

   • 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie

     God's own testimony […] doth not a little comfort and confirm the same.

4. (obsolete) To assist or help; to aid.

Synonyms

• besoothe

Translations

Derived terms

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch confoort, from Old French confort.

Pronunciation

• (Netherlands) IPA^(key): /k?m?f??r/
• (Belgium) IPA^(key): /k?m?f?r(t)/
• Hyphenation: com?fort

Noun

comfort n (plural comforts, diminutive comfortje n)

1. Physical comfort, ease.

Derived terms

• comfortabel
• ligcomfort
• rijcomfort
• zitcomfort

English

Etymology

From Middle English transporten, a borrowing from Old French transporter (“carry or convey across”), from Latin tr?nsport?, from trans (“across”) + porto (“to carry”).

Pronunciation

Verb

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tr?nzpôrt?, tränzpôrt?, IPA^(key): /t?ænz?p??t/, /t???n?sp??t/
• (General American) enPR: tr?nzpôrt?, IPA^(key): /t?ænz?p??t/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /t?ænz?po(?)?t/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /t?ænz?po?t/
• Hyphenation: trans?port

Noun

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: tr?nz?pôrt, tränz?pôrt, IPA^(key): /?t?ænz.p??t/, /?t???nsp??t/
• (General American) enPR: tr?nz?pôrt, IPA^(key): /?t?ænz.p??t/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?t?ænz.po(?)?t/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /?t?ænz.po?t/
• Hyphenation: trans?port

Verb

transport (third-person singular simple present transports, present participle transporting, simple past and past participle transported)

1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.
2. (historical) To deport to a penal colony.
3. (figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.
   • We shall then be transported with a nobler […] wonder.

Synonyms

• (carry or bear from one place to another): convey, ferry, move, relocate, shift, ship
• (historical: deport to a penal colony): banish, deport, exile, expatriate, extradite
• (move someone to strong emotion): carry away, enrapture

Translations

Noun

transport (countable and uncountable, plural transports)

1. An act of transporting; conveyance.

2. The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.
   • 1919, Elisabeth P. Stork (translator), Heidi, Johanna Spyri, page 53:

     In her transport at finding such treasures, Heidi even forgot Peter and his goats.

3. A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.)
4. (Canada) A tractor-trailer.
5. The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.

6. A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.
7. (historical) A deported convict.

Synonyms

• (act of transporting): conveyance, ferrying, moving, relocation, shifting, shipping
• (state of being transported by emotion): rapture
• ((military) vehicle used to transport troops):
• (vehicle used to transport passengers, mail or freight):
• (system of transporting people): See public transport
• (device that moves recording tape across the heads of a recorder):
• (historical: deported convict): deportee, exile, expatriate

Translations

Derived terms

• means of transport
• public transport
• transport interchange

Related terms

• antitransport
• transportability
• transportable
• transportage
• transportation
• transporter
• transportive

Catalan

Etymology

From transportar (“to transport”).

Noun

transport m (plural transports)

1. transport

Further reading

• “transport” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “transport” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “transport” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “transport” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch transport, from Middle French transport, from Old French transport, from transporter (“carry or convey across”), from Latin transporto, from trans (“across”) + porto (“to carry”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tr?n?sp?rt/, /tr?ns?p?rt/
• Hyphenation: trans?port
• Rhymes: -?rt

Noun

transport n (plural transporten, diminutive transportje n)

1. transport

Synonyms

• vervoer

Descendants

• Afrikaans: transport
• ? Indonesian: transpor

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???s.p??/
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophone: transports

Noun

transport m (plural transports)

1. transport

Derived terms

Further reading

• “transport” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Medieval Latin transportus, from Latin transportare

Noun

transport m (definite singular transporten, indefinite plural transporter, definite plural transportene)

1. transport, transportation

Derived terms

References

• “transport” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Medieval Latin transportus, from Latin transportare

Noun

transport m (definite singular transporten, indefinite plural transportar, definite plural transportane)

1. transport, transportation

Derived terms

References

• “transport” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Etymology

From Latin tr?nsport?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?tran.sp?rt/

Noun

transport m inan

1. transport (act of transporting)

   Synonym: przewóz

2. transport (vehicle used to transport passengers, mail or freight)
3. transport (system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region)
4. load, cargo

   Synonyms: fracht, ?adunek

Declension

Derived terms

• (verbs) transportowa?, przetransportowa?, przetransportowywa?, przytransportowa?, wytransportowa?
• (nouns) transportowiec, transportówka
• (adjective) transportowy

Related terms

• (nouns) transporter, transporterka, transportacja
• (adjective) transporterowy

Further reading

• transport in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• transport in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

From French transport.

Noun

transport n (plural transporturi)

1. transport

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

trànsport m (Cyrillic spelling ??????????)

1. transport, conveyance
2. transport (vehicle)

Declension

Swedish

Pronunciation

Noun

transport c

1. a transport, something to be moved
2. a transport, a preliminary sum to be carried to the next page
3. a transport, promotion to a new job or task

Declension

Related terms

• transportera

See also

• befordran
• export
• import
• kommunikation
• minnessiffra
• spedition
• trafik
• åkeri