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trans·port

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–verb (used with object)

1.	to carry, move, or convey from one place to another.

2.	to carry away by strong emotion; enrapture.

3.	to send into banishment, esp. to a penal colony.

–noun

4.	the act of transporting or conveying; conveyance.

5.	a means of transporting or conveying, as a truck or bus.

6.	a ship or plane employed for transporting soldiers, military stores, etc.

7.	an airplane carrying freight or passengers as part of a transportation system.

8.	a system of public travel.

9.	transportation (def. 6).

10.	strong emotion; ecstatic joy, bliss, etc.

11.	a convict sent into banishment, esp. to a penal colony: The country had been colonized largely by transports.

12.	Recording. Also called tape transport. a mechanism that moves magnetic tape past the head in a tape deck or tape recorder.

[Origin: 1325–75; ME transporten (v.) < L trānsportāre to carry across. See trans-, port⁵

]

—Related forms

trans·port·a·ble, adjective

trans·port·a·bil·i·ty, noun

trans·port·ive, adjective

—Synonyms 1. See carry. 10. rapture, happiness. See ecstasy.

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trans·port Audio Help (trāns-pôrt', -pōrt') Pronunciation Key
tr.v. trans·port·ed, trans·port·ing, trans·ports

To carry from one place to another; convey. See Synonyms at convey.
To move to strong emotion; carry away; enrapture. See Synonyms at enrapture.
To send abroad to a penal colony; deport. See Synonyms at banish.

n. (trāns'pôrt', -pōrt')

The act of transporting; conveyance.
The condition of being transported by emotion; rapture.
A ship or aircraft used to transport troops or military equipment.
A vehicle, such as an aircraft, used to transport passengers, mail, or freight.
1. The system of transporting passengers or goods in a particular country or area.
2. The vehicles, such as buses and trains, used in such a system.
A device that moves magnetic tape beyond the recording head, as of a tape recorder.
A deported convict.

[Middle English transporten, from Old French transporter, from Latin trānsportāre : trāns-, trans- + portāre, to carry; see per-² in Indo-European roots.]

trans·port'a·bil'i·ty n., trans·port'a·ble adj., trans·port'er n., trans·por'tive adj.

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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
transport (v.)

c.1374, from O.Fr. transporter "carry or convey across" (14c.), from L. transportare, from trans- "across" + portare "to carry" (see port (1)). Sense of "carry away with strong feelings" is first recorded 1509. Meaning "to carry away into banishment" is recorded from 1666. The noun is attested from 1456, originally "mental exaltation;" sense of "means of transportation" is recorded from 1694. Transportation "act of transporting" is recorded from 1540. In the sense of "means of conveyance" it is first recorded 1853.

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transport
noun
1.	something that serves as a means of transportation [syn: conveyance]
2.	an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes
3.	the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials [syn: transportation]
4.	a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion; "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens [syn: ecstasy]
5.	a mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder [syn: tape drive]
6.	the act of moving something from one location to another [syn: transportation]
verb
1.	move something or somebody around; usually over long distances
2.	move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body; "You must carry your camping gear"; "carry the suitcases to the car"; "This train is carrying nuclear waste"; "These pipes carry waste water into the river"
3.	hold spellbound [syn: enchant] [ant: disenchant]
4.	transport commercially
5.	send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message" [syn: transmit]

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transport [trӕnsˈpoːt] verb

to carry (goods, passengers etc) from one place to another
Example: The goods were transported by air; A bus transported us from the airport to the city.

Arabic:	يَنْقُل مُسافرين أو بَضائِع
Chinese (Simplified):	运输，运送
Chinese (Traditional):	運輸，運送
Czech:	přepravit
Danish:	transportere
Dutch:	vervoeren
Estonian:	transportima
Finnish:	kuljettaa
French:	transporter
German:	transportieren
Greek:	μεταφέρω
Hungarian:	szállít
Icelandic:	flytja (á milli)
Indonesian:	mengangkut
Italian:	traspostare

Japanese:	輸送する
Korean:	수송하다
Latvian:	transportēt; pārvadāt
Lithuanian:	pervežti
Norwegian:	transportere, bringe, sende
Polish:	przewozić
Portuguese (Brazil):	transportar
Portuguese (Portugal):	transportar
Romanian:	a transporta
Russian:	перевозить
Slovak:	prepraviť, transportovať
Slovenian:	prepeljati
Spanish:	transportar
Swedish:	transportera
Turkish:	taşımak

transport [trӕnsˈpoːtˈtranspoːt] noun

the process of transporting or being transported
Example: road transport; My husband is using my car, so I have no (means of) transport.

Arabic:	نَقْل
Chinese (Simplified):	运输工具
Chinese (Traditional):	運輸工具
Czech:	přeprava
Danish:	transport; -transport
Dutch:	vervoer
Estonian:	transport
Finnish:	kuljetus
French:	transport
German:	der Transport
Greek:	μεταφορά, μεταφορικό μέσο
Hungarian:	szállítás; közlekedés
Icelandic:	samgöngutæki, *-kerfi
Indonesian:	angkutan
Italian:	trasporto

Japanese:	移動の手段
Korean:	수송, 운송
Latvian:	transports; satiksme; satiksmes līdzeklis
Lithuanian:	susisiekimas, transportas
Norwegian:	transport(ering), sending
Polish:	przewóz, transport
Portuguese (Brazil):	transporte
Portuguese (Portugal):	transporte
Romanian:	(mijloc de) transport
Russian:	перевозка;транспорт
Slovak:	preprava, transport
Slovenian:	prevoz
Spanish:	transporte
Swedish:	transport, transportmedel
Turkish:	taşıma

See also: transportation, transportable, transporter

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transport trans·port (trāns'pôrt')
n.
The movement or transference of biochemical substances that occurs in biological systems.

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Main Entry: ¹trans·port
Pronunciation: tran(t)s-'pO(&)rt, -'po(&)rt, 'tran(t)s-"
Function: transitive verb
: to transfer or conveyfrom one place to another transporting ions across a living membrane>

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Main Entry: ²trans·port
Pronunciation: 'tran(t)s-"pO(&)rt, -"po(&)rt
Function: noun
: an act or process of transporting;specifically : ACTIVE TRANSPORT

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Transport

Trans*port"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transported; p. pr. & vb. n. Transporting.] [F. transporter, L. transportare; trans across + portare to carry. See Port bearing, demeanor.]

1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops. --Hakluyt.

2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish.

3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul.

[They] laugh as if transported with some fit Of passion. --Milton.

We shall then be transported with a nobler . . . wonder. --South.

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Transport

Trans"port\, n. [F. See Transport, v.]

1. Transportation; carriage; conveyance.

The Romans . . . stipulated with the Carthaginians to furnish them with ships for transport and war. --Arbuthnot.

2. A vessel employed for transporting, especially for carrying soldiers, warlike stores, or provisions, from one place to another, or to convey convicts to their destination; -- called also transport ship, transport vessel.

3. Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.

With transport views the airy rule his own, And swells on an imaginary throne. --Pope.

Say not, in transports of despair, That all your hopes are fled. --Doddridge.

4. A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.

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