trans·port
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–noun
| 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. |
| 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. |
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tr.v. trans·port·ed, trans·port·ing, trans·ports
n. (trāns'pôrt', -pōrt')
[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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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] |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
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.
transport [trӕnsˈpoːtˈtranspoːt] nounExample: The goods were transported by air; A bus transported us from the airport to the city.
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the process of transporting or being transported
Example: road transport; My husband is using my car, so I have no (means of) transport.
See also: transportation, transportable, transporterExample: road transport; My husband is using my car, so I have no (means of) transport.
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| Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary, © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd. |
transport trans·port (trāns'pôrt')
n.
The movement or transference of biochemical substances that occurs in biological systems.
| The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. |
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
| Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc. |
Main Entry: 2trans·port
Pronunciation: 'tran(t)s-"pO(&)rt, -"po(&)rt
Function: noun
: an act or process of transporting;specifically : ACTIVE TRANSPORT
| Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc. |
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.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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