TRANSPORT

transportation, transport, transfer, transferral, conveyance

(noun) the act of moving something from one location to another

transportation, shipping, transport

(noun) the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials

conveyance, transport

(noun) something that serves as a means of transportation

transport

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

ecstasy, rapture, transport, exaltation, raptus

(noun) a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion; “listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture”- Charles Dickens

transmit, transfer, transport, channel, channelize, channelise

(verb) send from one person or place to another; “transmit a message”

transport, carry

(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”

enchant, enrapture, transport, enthrall, ravish, enthral, delight

(verb) hold spellbound

transport, send, ship

(verb) transport commercially

transport

(verb) move something or somebody around; usually over long distances

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

transport (third-person singular simple present transports, present participle transporting, simple past and past participle transported)

To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.

(historical) To deport to a penal colony.

(figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.

Synonyms

• (carry or bear from one place to another): convey, ferry, move, relocate, shift, ship

• (historical: deport to a penal colony): banish, deport, exile, expatriate, extradite

• (move someone to strong emotion): carry away, enrapture

Noun

transport (countable and uncountable, plural transports)

An act of transporting; conveyance.

The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.

A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.)

(Canada) A tractor-trailer.

The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.

A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.

(historical) A deported convict.

Synonyms

• (act of transporting): conveyance, ferrying, moving, relocation, shifting, shipping

• (state of being transported by emotion): rapture

• ((military) vehicle used to transport troops)

• (vehicle used to transport passengers, mail or freight)

• (system of transporting people): See public transport

• (device that moves recording tape across the heads of a recorder)

• (historical: deported convict): deportee, exile, expatriate

Source: Wiktionary

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Trans*port", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transported; p. pr. & vb. n. Transporting.] Etym: [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. Etym: [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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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