porter vs transport

transport vs porter

porter and transport both are nouns.

porter and transport both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
porter	Yes	No	Yes	No
transport	Yes	No	Yes	No

As verbs, transport is a hypernym of porter; that is, transport is a word with a broader meaning than porter:

porter: carry luggage or supplies
transport: move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body

Other hypernyms of porter include carry.

porter (noun)	transport (noun)
a very dark sweet ale brewed from roasted unmalted barley	the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials
a person employed to carry luggage and supplies	the act of moving something from one location to another
a railroad employee who assists passengers (especially on sleeping cars)	something that serves as a means of transportation
someone who guards an entrance	a mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder
	an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes
	a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion

porter (verb)	transport (verb)
carry luggage or supplies	move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body
	send from one person or place to another
	hold spellbound
	move something or somebody around; usually over long distances
	transport commercially

Difference between porter and transport

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