different between transportation vs transit

English

Etymology

From transport +? -ation.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t?ænsp???te???n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /t?ænsp??te???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: trans?por?ta?tion
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

transportation (usually uncountable, plural transportations)

1. The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; conveyance, often of people, goods etc.

   We have to get people out of their cars and encourage them to use alternative forms of transportation.

2. (historical) Deportation to a penal colony.

   Mulligan's sentence was commuted from death to transportation.

3. (US) A means of conveyance.

   Nice transportation, dude, but your brake lights are busted.

4. (US) A ticket or fare.
   • 1898, Willa Cather, The Westbound Train

     Sybil: [..] That reminds me, I haven't got my passes yet! Have you the transportation here from Cheyenne to San Francisco for Mrs. S. Johnston?"

     (Agent looks grave, goes back and fumbles at the papers on his desk, returns to the window with a slip of paper in his hand.)

     Agent: "We had transportation here made out for such a person, but it was called for several hours ago."

Translations

English

Etymology

From French, from Latin transire (“to go across, pass in, pass through”), from trans (“over”) +? ire (“to go”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?t?æn.z?t/, /?t?æn.s?t/
• (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /?t?æn.z?t/, /?t?æn.s?t/
• (UK, now rare) IPA^(key): /?t???n.z?t/
• Rhymes: -ænz?t

Noun

transit (countable and uncountable, plural transits)

1. The act of passing over, across, or through something.
   • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

     In France you are now […] in the transit from one form of government to another.
2. The conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance.

   the transit of goods through a country

3. (astronomy) The passage of a celestial body across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body.
4. A surveying instrument rather like a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles.
5. (navigation) An imaginary line between two objects whose positions are known. When the navigator sees one object directly in front of the other, the navigator knows that his position is on the transit.
6. (Britain) A Ford Transit van, see Transit.

   Beufort road, Birkenhead, about 17.15 June 19 2013, white transit overtakes and swerves left into junction almost taking my front wheel.

7. (Canada, US) Public transport system.

   I always take the transit to work.

Derived terms

• transit lounge

Translations

Verb

transit (third-person singular simple present transits, present participle transiting, simple past and past participle transited)

1. To pass over, across or through something.
2. To revolve an instrument about its horizontal axis so as to reverse its direction.
3. (astronomy, intransitive) To make a transit.
4. (Internet) To carry communications traffic to and from a customer or another network on a compensation basis as opposed to peerage in which the traffic to and from another network is carried on an equivalency basis or without charge.

Translations

Related terms

• transience
• transiency
• transient
• transition
• transitional
• transitionary
• transitionist
• transitive
• transitively
• transitory

References

Further reading

• transit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• transit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• transit at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Tristan, startin', straint

French

Verb

transit

1. third-person singular present indicative of transir
2. third-person singular past historic of transir

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch transit, from French transit, from Latin tr?nse?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?trans?t]
• Hyphenation: tran?sit

Noun

transit (first-person possessive transitku, second-person possessive transitmu, third-person possessive transitnya)

1. transit,
   1. (trading) the conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance.
   2. (astronomy) The passage of a celestial body across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body.

Alternative forms

• transito

Further reading

• “transit” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Ladin

Noun

transit m (plural transic)

1. transit

Latin

Verb

tr?nsit

1. third-person singular present active indicative of tr?nse?