transport vs sluice

sluice vs transport

transport and sluice both are nouns.

transport and sluice both are verbs.

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

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

transport: move something or somebody around; usually over long distances
sluice: transport in or send down a sluice

Other hyponyms of transport include float, ferry, wheelbarrow, raft, bus, pipe, freight, truck, rail, sledge, lighter, pick up, wheel, wheel around, carry over, advect, teleport.

transport (noun)	sluice (noun)
the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials	conduit that carries a rapid flow of water controlled by a sluicegate
the act of moving something from one location to another
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)	sluice (verb)
move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body	irrigate with water from a sluice
send from one person or place to another	draw through a sluice
hold spellbound	transport in or send down a sluice
move something or somebody around; usually over long distances	pour as if from a sluice
transport commercially

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