transport

[Trans*port·]

Transport means to move something, often large quantities of commercial products, over great distances. Container ships transport goods made in China to the U.S., where they will be sold.

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To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.

Noun
the commercial enterprise of transporting goods and materials

Noun
something that serves as a means of transportation

Noun
a mechanism that transport magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder

Noun
an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes

Noun
a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion; "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens

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Verb
send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message"

Verb
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"

Verb
hold spellbound

Verb
transport commercially

Verb
move something or somebody around; usually over long distances


v. t.
To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.

v. t.
To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish.

v. t.
To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul.

v.
Transportation; carriage; conveyance.

v.
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.

v.
Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.

v.
A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.


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.
We shall then be transported with a nobler . . . wonder.

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.
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.
Say not, in transports of despair, That all your hopes are fled.
4. A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.

To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.

Transportation; carriage; conveyance.

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Usage Examples

'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

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Other Usage Examples

For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date.

The demographic weight of countries such as China and India exercise a massive pressure on our wages and salaries. They have accomplished massive technological advances and the revolution in information technology has reduced the costs of transport.

People have to make journeys, what we want is people to have alternatives in public transport so that they can make a choice about the sort of way in which they're going to travel.

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