teleport

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[ tel-uh-pawrt, -pohrt ]
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verb (used with object)
  1. to transport (a body) by telekinesis.

Origin of teleport

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1950–55; back formation from teleportation, equivalent to tele-1 + (trans)portation

Other words from teleport

  • tel·e·por·ta·tion, tel·e·por·tage, noun

Words Nearby teleport

Other definitions for teleport (2 of 2)

teleport2
[ tel-uh-pawrt, -pohrt ]

noun
  1. a regional telecommunications network that provides access to communications satellites and other long distance media; telecommunications hub.

Origin of teleport

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First recorded in 1980–85; tele-1 + port1

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How to use teleport in a sentence

  • They're just finding out their powers—one is a telepath, another levitates, a third is a teleport.

    What Rough Beast? | Jefferson Highe
  • We'll need more televisor machines, more teleport machines, some for use on Mars and Venus, others for the Jovian moons.

    Empire | Clifford Donald Simak
  • He could teleport parts from it; he could hold other parts more tightly together by using the same power.

    Earth Alert! | Kris Neville
  • If the same rule holds for the aliens as for us, I don't think they would have time to teleport it away.

    Earth Alert! | Kris Neville
  • Malone thought, if you put handcuffs on a teleport, would the handcuffs vanish when the teleport did?

    Out Like a Light | Gordon Randall Garrett

British Dictionary definitions for teleport

teleport

/ (ˈtɛlɪˌpɔːt) /


verb
  1. (tr) (in science fiction) to transport (a person or object) across a distance instantaneously

Origin of teleport

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C20: from tele- + port 5

Derived forms of teleport

  • teleportation, noun

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