TRANSPORTING
Etymology 1
Verb
transporting
present participle of transport
Etymology 2
Noun
transporting (plural transportings)
The transportation of a criminal.
Source: Wiktionary
Trans*port"ing, a.
Definition: That transports; fig., ravishing.
Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
TRANSPORT
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