What's the difference between outbound and shipment?

Outbound


Definition:

  • (a.) Outward bound.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The image traffic can be divided into inbound traffic generated by diagnostic modalities and outbound traffic into workstations.
  • (2) Helena Beard, a consultant from China Travel Outbound, who advises organisations such as the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich on how to attract Chinese tourists, says: “There is a fast-growing affluent middle class and millenials, many of whom speak English and have a more adventurous spirit than their parents.” She says luxury goods shopping will still be high on their list but they will also be looking for good quality restaurants, particularly seafood, and cultural attractions from Stonehenge to anything linked to the monarchy or flagged by celebrities on social media.
  • (3) We are working with the UK government to work out the basis upon which easyJet can fly passengers in Sharm el-Sheikh back home.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Drone films crash site of Sinai plane crash on Monday Thomson Airways, along with First Choice, confirmed it has cancelled all outbound flights to Sharm el-Sheikh up to and including Thursday 12 November.
  • (4) The West Midlands-based firm, which insures three million people in the UK against burst pipes, broken gas boilers and electrical problems, informed the stock market that it had suspended its sales operation, with outbound calls halted for six weeks.
  • (5) "As a result of the change in FCO advice, the decision has been taken to cancel all our outbound flights to Mombasa, Kenya up to and including 31 October.
  • (6) She stressed that outbound flights from the UK to Sharm el-Sheikh remain suspended and that the Foreign Office “continues to advise against all but essential travel by air to or from the airport”.
  • (7) Adjustment was slower after the return eastward flight than after the outbound westward flight.
  • (8) When measured 25 meters away from the railroad track, the noise level increased from 73 to 76 dB (A)along the inbound track, while it increased from 77 to 78 dB (A)along the outbound track.
  • (9) The company said inbound sales and marketing calls will resume on Tuesday, but its sales staff will not be making business-generating outbound calls for a further "five to six weeks".
  • (10) While the talk is of trade deals with new markets, tourism is already leading the way, competing strongly in our most valuable source markets such as the US and in markets that are crucial for our future, including China.” Last year visitors from the USA – Britain’s most lucrative foreign market – spent £3bn in Britain for the first time, while visits from China, the world’s largest outbound market, increased by 46%, with spending up 18%.
  • (11) Christmas travel disruption by arctic temperatures and heavy snow hit a peak last night, as Heathrow airport cancelled the bulk of inbound and outbound flights ahead of Christmas, while overwhelmed Eurostar terminals shut their doors to passengers.
  • (12) Under the joint-force operation, officers at Heathrow spoke to passengers on 13 outbound flights to "high-risk" countries.
  • (13) Lee and Obama today called on the international community to fully implement the resolution, including measures to intercept outbound North Korean ships suspected of carrying banned munitions and nuclear components.
  • (14) The advice from all the relevant agencies, as well as individual transport operators, is that at this stage any disruption to outbound passengers will be minimal and people should stick to their travel plans.
  • (15) He was held at the outbound tourist controls as he attempted to board the train for Calais, France.
  • (16) "By following this protocol, airlines will reduce the risk of being diverted to an airport outside the UK and reduce the risk of having an outbound flight cancelled."
  • (17) The kid is outbound after Mike Matheny removes his man after a more than decent outing.
  • (18) "As a result of the change in FCO advice, the decision has been taken to cancel all our outbound flights to Mombasa, Kenya, up to and including 31 October.
  • (19) Cyber warfare provides a strategic advantage since outbound attacks are possible, but inbound attacks would have limited reach,” said the HP report.
  • (20) Fossum, 53, is the oldest member of the outbound crew and has been closely involved with the design and assembly of the International Space Station over its brief history.

Shipment


Definition:

  • (n.) The act or process of shipping; as, he was engaged in the shipment of coal for London; an active shipment of wheat from the West.
  • (n.) That which is shipped.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Freezing may be valuable while quality control procedures are performed following radiolabeling as well as if temporary storage or shipment of radioantibodies prior to patient dosing is undertaken.
  • (2) Russia has stepped up its battle against parmesan cheese, Danish bacon and other European delicacies, announcing it plans to incinerate contraband shipments on the border as soon as they are discovered.
  • (3) The results suggest that shipment and long-term storage of freeze-dried foot-and-mouth disease virus antigens is possible for use in the ELISA in the absence of refrigeration.
  • (4) He sold the first Tesco product – Tesco Tea – five years later when he bought a tea shipment from a merchant called TE Stockwell and combined their initials on the packaging.
  • (5) It also emerged that Cameron confronted Putin over arms supplies and had been personally involved in plans to prevent a Russian-manned shipment of three repaired attack helicopters and air defence systems reaching Syria.
  • (6) The first trial heard that Fleckney, a drug dealer known as "the chairman of the board", passed Clark information about drug shipments.
  • (7) The importation of a shipment of high-Se wheat from Australia in 1984 raised Se concentrations in breads and other wheat products two to four fold.
  • (8) The number of shipments in which Newcastle disease was found to be present in the birds is reviewed.
  • (9) Also in August, terrorist attacks were intensified, including speedboat strafing attacks on a Cuban seaside hotel "where Soviet military technicians were known to congregate, killing a score of Russians and Cubans"; attacks on British and Cuban cargo ships; contaminating sugar shipments; and other atrocities and sabotage, mostly carried out by Cuban exile organizations permitted to operate freely in Florida.
  • (10) Heins was speaking less than a week after RIM unveiled quarterly results with an operating loss of $643m (£409m) and handset shipments which dipped to their lowest level since spring 2009, amid a smartphone market growing at 50% annually.
  • (11) Michelle Wiese Bockman, markets editor of Lloyd's List, the shipping news and data provider, said the shipment provided "a signal that Libya is open to international trade and shipping.
  • (12) Aid shipments into the devastated city of Aleppo have yet to be allowed to reach civilians.
  • (13) Government restrictions, instituted in 2006, forbid the export of raw teff grain, only allowing shipments of injera and other processed products.
  • (14) The Sharq al-Awsat newspaper quoted a US official as saying Sudan had been warned in advance about the shipment.
  • (15) Similarly, 15 MAI strains were isolated from the lymph node pools of 12 deer from the 2 imported shipments.
  • (16) The former saw iPhone shipments rise from 26.9m in Q3 2012 to 33.8m in Q3 2013, but its market share dropped from 15.6% to 13.4% in that time.
  • (17) Analysts call shipments to intermediaries "sell-in"; the total number that actually reaches customers is "sell-through".
  • (18) PC calves had significantly less shrink after shipment and in 1971 significantly more rapid daily gain during the first weeks of the feeding period.
  • (19) While phablet shipments are still a small proportion of overall global smartphone shipments, they are seeing a marked increase in sales according to IDC's data.
  • (20) Areas with relatively poor adherence rates included pharmacy department preparation of investigational drug patient-information sheets (20.5%), maintaining information within the pharmacy on minimum stock levels (53.9%), mode of shipment (30.8%), time to receive investigational drugs after order placed (38.5%), acceptance of nursing transcriptions of oral orders (56.8%), including "investigational drug" on the dispensing label (55.8%), and approval of data sheets by the investigator and the institutional review board (40.5% and 37.8%, respectively).

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