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Transport Meaning & Definition
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.

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