riding vs transit

riding

noun
  • The act of one who rides; a mounted excursion. 

  • The behaviour in the motion of a vehicle, such as oscillation. 

  • A path cut through woodland. 

  • Electoral district or constituency. 

  • Any of the three administrative divisions of Yorkshire and some other northern counties of England. 

transit

noun
  • The act of passing over, across, or through something. 

  • An imaginary line between two objects whose positions are known. When the navigator sees one object directly in front of the other, the navigator knows that his position is on the transit. 

  • The passage of a celestial body across the observer's meridian, or across the disk of a larger celestial body. 

  • A Ford Transit van, see Transit. 

  • Public transport system. 

  • A surveying instrument rather like a theodolite that measures horizontal and vertical angles. 

  • The conveyance of people or goods from one place to another, especially on a public transportation system; the vehicles used for such conveyance. 

verb
  • To pass over, across or through something. 

  • To carry communications traffic to and from a customer or another network on a compensation basis as opposed to peerage in which the traffic to and from another network is carried on an equivalency basis or without charge. 

  • To revolve an instrument about its horizontal axis so as to reverse its direction. 

  • To convey people or goods from one place to another, especially by public transport vehicles. 

  • To make a transit. 

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