What's the difference between shipment and transport?

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).

Transport


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.
  • (v. t.) To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish.
  • (v. t.) To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul.
  • (v.) Transportation; carriage; conveyance.
  • (v.) 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.
  • (v.) Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.
  • (v.) A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The high amino acid levels in the cells suggest that these cells act as inter-organ transporters and reservoirs of amino acids, they have a different role in their handling and metabolism from those of mammals.
  • (2) Ca2+ transport was positively correlated with MR cell density.
  • (3) In addition, DDT blocked succinate dehydrogenase and the cytochrome b-c span of the electron transport chain, which also secondarily reduced ATP synthesis.
  • (4) The transport of potassium ions through membranes of red blood cells was examined in in bitro experiments using a CMF of 4500 oersted.
  • (5) The transported pIgA was functional, as evidenced by its ability to bind to virus in an ELISA assay and to protect nonimmune mice against intranasal infection with H1N1 but not H3N2 influenza virus.
  • (6) In January, Paris taxi drivers attacked an Uber car transporting two passengers from Charles de Gaulle airport.
  • (7) These results suggest the involvement of SRC in opsin transport.
  • (8) Plasma membranes were isolated from rat kidney and their transport properties for sodium, calcium, protons, phosphate, glucose, lactate, and phenylalanine were investigated.
  • (9) Erythrocyte membrane choline transport is abnormally high in chronic renal failure.
  • (10) These results indicate that both the renal brush-border and basolateral membranes possess the Na(+)-dependent dicarboxylate transport system with very similar properties but with different substrate affinity and transport capacity.
  • (11) Chronic CHP administration elicited significant increase in both KD and Bmax of striatal mazindol-binding sites (labelling DA transporter complex), but no change in either D1- or D2-type DA receptors.
  • (12) By the time Van Kirk returned to the US in June 1943, he had flown 58 combat and eight transport missions.
  • (13) Solely infectious waste become removed hospital-intern and -extern on conditions of hygienic prevention, namely through secure packing during the transport, combustion or desinfection.
  • (14) These studies also suggest at least two mechanisms for uric acid reabsorption; one sodium dependent, the other independent of sodium and water transport.
  • (15) Basal and maximally insulin-stimulated rates of 3-O-methylglucose transport in adipocytes from obese and obese NIDDM subjects were reduced to 50% of the values in cells from normal subjects (P less than 0.05).
  • (16) Thus, although ferric-enterochelin cannot penetrate the cell surface from outside, the complex that is formed within the envelope is transported normally into the cell.
  • (17) When antibodies were bound to cell-surface DPP IV at 4 degrees C, the immune complex remained stable for more than 1 h after rewarming to 37 degrees C, despite ongoing metabolic and membrane transport processes.
  • (18) Uptake studies with 22Na were performed in cultured bovine pigmented ciliary epithelial cells, in order to characterize mechanisms of Na+ transport.
  • (19) Benzylpenicillin showed small inhibition against succinate transport and ticarcillin against sulfate transport.
  • (20) Inhibition of fast axonal transport by an antibody specific for kinesin provides direct evidence that kinesin is involved in the translocation of membrane-bounded organelles in axons.