Transport

[træn'spɔːt;trɑːn-] or ['trænspɔrt]

Definition

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

(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.) transport commercially.

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

Editor: Percival--From WordNet

Definition

(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.

Typist: Vern

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Carry (from one place to another), convey, bear, WAFT, TOTE, FETCH.[2]. Banish (to a penal colony).[3]. Enrapture, ravish, enravish, entrance, beatify, put into ecstasy, make very happy.[4]. Carry away (by excitement of any kind).

n. [1]. Conveyance, transportation, carriage.[2]. Transport-ship, transport-vessel.[3]. Convict (sentenced to banishment), felon.[4]. Rapture, ravishment, beatitude, ecstasy, beatification, bliss, happiness, felicity.[5]. Warmth, vehemence, violent manifestation.

Checked by Jennie

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Bear, carry, convey, banish, enrapture, delight, ravish,[See ENRAPTURE],[SeeENRAPTURE]

SYN:Ecstasy, rapture, enravishment, bliss

ANT:Agony, paroxysm, mortification, distress, annoyant, {[vexauu]?}

Editor: Will

Definition

v.t. to carry across or from one place to another: to banish: to carry away by violence of passion or pleasure.—ns. Trans′port carriage from one place to another: a vessel for conveyance: the conveyance of troops and their necessaries by sea or land: ecstasy; Transportabil′ity.—adj. Transpor′table that may be carried across.—ns. Transpor′tal transportation; Transpor′tance (Shak.) conveyance removal; Transportā′tion removal: banishment.—p.adj. Transpor′ted carried away with ecstatic emotion.—adv. Transpor′tedly.—ns. Transpor′tedness; Transpor′ter.—p.adj. Transpor′ting carrying away with emotion: passionate: ravishing.—adv. Transpor′tingly.—ns. Trans′port-rid′er a carrier; Trans′port-ship -vess′el a ship used for transporting esp. for conveying troops stores &c.

Typist: Maxine

Examples

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