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Transport Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Transport? [n] the commercial enterprise of transporting goods and materials [n] something that serves as a means of transportation [n] a mechanism that transport magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder [n] an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes [n] a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion; "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens [v] 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" [v] send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message" [v] hold spellbound [v] transport commercially [v] move something or somebody around; usually over long distances Synonyms \| Synonyms for Transport: carry \| channel \| channelise \| channelize \| conveyance \| delight \| ecstasy \| enchant \| enrapture \| enthral \| enthrall \| exaltation \| rapture \| raptus \| ravish \| send \| ship \| shipping \| tape drive \| tape transport \| transfer \| transmit \| transportation Related Terms \| Find terms related to Transport: See Also \| active transport \| advect \| aerial tramway \| barge \| bear \| bring \| bucket \| bus \| business \| business enterprise \| cable tramway \| cargo ships \| carry over \| cart \| chariot \| commerce \| commercial enterprise \| commercialism \| convey \| despatch \| diffusion \| dispatch \| displace \| displace \| dolly \| emotional state \| express \| expressage \| ferry \| ferry \| ferrying \| fetch \| float \| fly \| forward \| freight \| freight \| freightage \| get \| haul \| hauling \| horsebox \| instrumentality \| instrumentation \| lift \| lighter \| litter \| lug \| mail \| mechanism \| mercantilism \| merchant marine \| merchant vessels \| move \| move \| navigation \| pack \| passive transport \| pick up \| pipe \| pipe in \| please \| port \| porter \| project \| propagate \| public transport \| raft \| rail \| railroad \| release \| return \| roll-on roll-off \| ropeway \| send \| send off \| send on \| send out \| shipping \| shoulder \| sidecar \| ski lift \| ski tow \| sledge \| sluice \| spirit \| take \| tape deck \| tape machine \| tape recorder \| telfer \| telpher \| tote \| trailer \| tram \| tramway \| translate \| truck \| trucking \| tug \| turn \| vehicle \| wheel \| wheel around Transport In Webster's Dictionary \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. \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.

Transport Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Transport?

[n] the commercial enterprise of transporting goods and materials
[n] something that serves as a means of transportation
[n] a mechanism that transport magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder
[n] an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes
[n] a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion; "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens
[v] 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"
[v] send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message"
[v] hold spellbound
[v] transport commercially
[v] move something or somebody around; usually over long distances

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Transport In Webster's Dictionary

\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.


\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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