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trans⋅port

[v. trans-pawrt, -pohrt; n. trans-pawrt, -pohrt]

–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-, port ⁵

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 (trāns-pôrt', -pōrt')

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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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.

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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Language Translation for : transport

Spanish: transportar,

German: transportieren,

Japanese: 輸送する

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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.

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>

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

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

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