transport vs railroad

railroad vs transport

transport and railroad both are nouns.

transport and railroad both are verbs.

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

As verbs, railroad is a hyponym of transport; that is, railroad is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than transport:

transport: transport commercially
railroad: transport by railroad

Other hyponyms of transport include barge, despatch, dispatch, send off, forward, send on.

transport (noun)	railroad (noun)
the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials	line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight
the act of moving something from one location to another	a line of track providing a runway for wheels
something that serves as a means of transportation
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

transport (verb)	railroad (verb)
move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body	transport by railroad
send from one person or place to another	supply with railroad lines
hold spellbound	compel by coercion, threats, or crude means
move something or somebody around; usually over long distances
transport commercially

Difference between transport and railroad

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