transportation

«transportation» in Mova's school dictionary: Moving people or goods from one place to another — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (transportation – uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) Moving people or goods from one place to another. tree →

2) A way of travelling or carrying things: cars, buses, trains, planes, ships. tree →

3) (history) Sending convicts from Britain and Ireland to live and work far away, especially to Australia (1788–1868) and earlier to America, as a punishment. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the USA «transportation» is the everyday word; in the UK and Australia people more often say «transport». In history lessons, transportation of convicts founded Australian colonies; in The Wind in the Willows Toad's crimes might have earned harsh punishments. In science and geography: transportation is also the movement of rock and soil by rivers, wind and ice.

examples

• Public transportation includes buses and trains. tree →
• Many convicts were sentenced to transportation to Australia. tree →
• The river's transportation of sand builds up the beach. tree →
• The school organises transportation for the trip. tree →
• Bikes are a healthy kind of transportation. tree →
• Transportation to Australia could last fourteen years or for life. tree →

note

Uncountable. UK usage: «transport». Verb: transport. In geography, transportation is the middle stage: erosion, transportation, deposition.

In the corpora

• From 1788 to 1868 Britain sent about 160,000 convicts on ships to Australia, a punishment called transportation, sometimes for quite small thefts.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «transportation» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.