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trans⋅port

  [v. trans-pawrt, -pohrt; n. trans-pawrt, -pohrt]
Use transporting in a Sentence
–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
  1. To carry from one place to another; convey. See Synonyms at convey.
  2. To move to strong emotion; carry away; enrapture. See Synonyms at enrapture.
  3. To send abroad to a penal colony; deport. See Synonyms at banish.
n.   (trāns'pôrt', -pōrt')
  1. The act of transporting; conveyance.
  2. The condition of being transported by emotion; rapture.
  3. A ship or aircraft used to transport troops or military equipment.
  4. 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.
  6. A device that moves magnetic tape beyond the recording head, as of a tape recorder.
  7. 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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Transporting

Trans*port"ing\, a. That transports; fig., ravishing.

Your transporting chords ring out. --Keble.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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