Transport vs. Deliver — What's the Difference?

To carry or move something or someone from one place to another.

To take and hand over an item to the intended recipient or location.

The act or means of moving goods or people from one location to another.

To assist in childbirth.

A system or mode of movement.

To formally present or express information.

To take someone emotionally or imaginatively to another state.

To provide a promised service or result.

To transfer or convey items over a long distance.

To rescue or save someone from a difficult situation.

Transport (BE) or transportation (AE) is the movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. In other words, the action of transport is defined as a particular movement of an organism or thing from a point A (a place in space) to a point B. Modes of transport include air, land (rail and road), water, cable, pipeline, and space.

To bring or transport to the proper place or recipient; distribute

Take or carry (people or goods) from one place to another by means of a vehicle, aircraft, or ship

To surrender (someone or something) to another; hand over

Overwhelm (someone) with a strong emotion, especially joy

To secure (something promised or desired), as for a candidate or political party

A system or means of conveying people or goods from place to place

To throw or hurl

An overwhelmingly strong emotion

To strike (a blow).

To move or carry (goods, for example) from one place to another; convey.

To express in words; declare or utter

To cause to feel strong emotion, especially joy; carry away; enrapture.

To give birth to

To send abroad to a penal colony; deport.

To assist or aid in the birth of

The act of transporting; conveyance.

To assist (a woman) in giving birth

The condition of being transported by emotion; joy or rapture.

To give forth or produce

A ship or aircraft used to transport troops or military equipment.

To set free, as from captivity, peril, or evil

A vehicle, such as an aircraft, used to transport passengers, mail, or freight.

To set free from restraint or danger.

The system of transporting passengers or goods in a particular country or area.

(process) To do with birth.

The vehicles, such as buses and trains, used in such a system.

To assist in the birth of.

A deported convict.

To assist (a female) in bearing, that is, in bringing forth (a child).

To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.

To give birth to.

(historical) To deport to a penal colony.

To free from or disburden of anything.

(figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.

To bring or transport something to its destination.

An act of transporting; conveyance.

To hand over or surrender (someone or something) to another.

The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.

To produce what is expected or required.

A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.)

To express in words or vocalizations, declare, utter, or vocalize.

(Canada) A tractor-trailer.

To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge.

The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.

To discover; to show.

A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.

(medicine) To administer a drug.

(historical) A deported convict.

(rare) Capable, agile, or active.

To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.

To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or feared; - often with from or out of; as, to deliver one from captivity, or from fear of death.

To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish.

To give or transfer; to yield possession or control of; to part with (to); to make over; to commit; to surrender; to resign; - often with up or over, to or into.

To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul.

To make over to the knowledge of another; to communicate; to utter; to speak; to impart.

Transportation; carriage; conveyance.

To give forth in action or exercise; to discharge; as, to deliver a blow; to deliver a broadside, or a ball.

A vessel employed for transporting, especially for carrying soldiers, warlike stores, or provisions, from one place to another, or to convey convicts to their destination; - called also transport ship, transport vessel.

To free from, or disburden of, young; to relieve of a child in childbirth; to bring forth; - often with of.

Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.

To discover; to show.

A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.

To deliberate.

Something that serves as a means of transportation

To admit; to allow to pass.

An exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes

Free; nimble; sprightly; active.

The commercial enterprise of transporting goods and materials

Deliver (a speech, oration, or idea);

A state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion;

Bring to a destination, make a delivery;

A mechanism that transport magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder

To surrender someone or something to another;

Move something or somebody around; usually over long distances

Free from harm or evil

Move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body;

Hand over to the authorities of another country;

Hold spellbound

Pass down;

Transport commercially

Utter (an exclamation, noise, etc.);

Send from one person or place to another;

Save from sins

Carry out or perform;

Relinquish possession or control over;

Throw or hurl from the mound to the batter, as in baseball;

Give birth (to a newborn);

No, transport refers to the movement process, while deliver involves ensuring receipt at the final destination.

Yes, transport can refer to the means or system of moving people or goods.

Deliver means to transport and hand over goods to the intended recipient.

Yes, deliver can mean rescuing from a dangerous or difficult situation.

Yes, deliver is used for expressing speeches or delivering messages.

Not always, but it's commonly associated with longer distances.

Yes, deliver can mean fulfilling promises, giving speeches, or helping in childbirth.

Transport means to carry or move goods or people from one location to another.

Yes, transport involves broader logistics, while deliver focuses on handing over at the end.

Yes, it can mean emotionally or imaginatively moving someone to another state.

It is used in both formal and informal contexts.

Yes, delivering services means providing promised results to customers.

Not necessarily, as transport focuses more on the movement itself.

No, transport includes various modes like road, rail, air, or sea.

Often, but not exclusively, especially in automated delivery systems.