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.
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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
- So, by the same rule, if a woman's a party to a secret that might hang or transport her, I'm not afraid of her telling it to anybody; not I! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Mr Wegg, in a languid transport, again dropped over on Mr Venus, and again recovering himself, masked his emotions with a sneeze. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- There was, if my memory serves me, but one small steamer to transport troops and baggage when the 4th infantry arrived. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The transport ship Gloria Scott was set down by the Admiralty as being lost at sea, and no word has ever leaked out as to her true fate. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- And that same evening, walking among the moon-lit forest paths, I poured forth my whole heart, its transport and its hope, to my friend. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The disclosure of that secret might, in past years, have hanged him--might now transport him for life. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Transport him would be better! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I saw vessels near the shore, and found myself suddenly transported back to the neighbourhood of civilized man. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- How should you like to be transported for life? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- We saved our recommendation, honest fellow,' said Eugene, 'for the next candidate--the one who will offer himself when you are transported or hanged. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The company has its own logging crews that cut the timber and pile it on flat cars, whence it is transported over a private railroad until it arrives at the company sawmills. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It is probable that they are occasionally transported by what may be called accidental means. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- The cavalry and the wagon trains were to march, but all the troops that could be transported by the cars were to go in that way. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He has returned quite transported with Venice. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It may also be used for transporting troops past danger points, and for transporting explosives or other perishable material which might be damaged by fire from the ends. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- A considerable quantity, too, must be annually lost in transporting those metals from one place to another both by sea and by land. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Hanging a few of them at least, in all probability,' suggested the doctor, 'and transporting the rest. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- And, lastly, I combated Mr. Franklin Blake's scruples, and induced him to be the means of transporting the Diamond to Lady Verinder's house. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Oh, cried Marianne, with what transporting sensation have I formerly seen them fall! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- They carried bedding and hammocks, the latter for transporting their sick and wounded. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The traveling crane in the foreground is capable of transporting a locomotive to any part of the shop. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The transports were all sailing vessels. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In the distance lay our fleet of transports, with the thoats of the green warriors, where they had remained during the battle. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- From Columbus they could, of course, see our gunboats and transports loaded with troops. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I ordered the transports to descend again into the gardens of the therns. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- It saves, probably, several days in the capture, and leaves troops and transports ready for immediate service. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Reinforcements were of no use in a country covered with water, as they would have to remain on board of their transports. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- A million veteran fighting-men from Helium's thin waterways man the battleships, the transports, and the convoys, he replied. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
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