Transportation
[trænspɔː'teɪʃ(ə)n;trɑːns-] or [,trænspɔr'teʃən]
Definition
(noun.) the act of moving something from one location to another.
(noun.) the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials.
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Definition
(n.) The act of transporting, or the state of being transported; carriage from one place to another; removal; conveyance.
(n.) Transport; ecstasy.
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Examples
- In the transportation building of the World’s Fair at Chicago in 1893 one of the most conspicuous objects of attention was the model of the great Bethlehem Iron Co. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- When the trade had extended into all the surrounding counties, however, the new business needed another prime essential of industry--transportation facilities. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The western army had not yet been supplied with transportation. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The boilers were fired by wood, as the economical transportation of coal was a physical impossibility. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The conservation of the forest means the conservation of our waterways, whether these be used for transportation or as sources of drinking water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Though he knows,' said Mr. Bounderby, now blowing a gale, 'that there are a set of rascals and rebels whom transportation is too good for! Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Oliver was master of transportation on this occasion by special detail. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- I wish in my very soul that he who brought it about might die and rot, even if 'tis transportation to say it! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Commence immediately the embarkation of your corps, or so much of it as there is transportation for. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We had no transportation for our camp and garrison equipage, so wagons were hired for the occasion and on the 3d of July we started. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It was desired to divide large blocks generally at the quarries to facilitate transportation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- For many years it had been a much-discussed question how to make these ores available for transportation to distant furnaces. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- To prevent this all spare forces at Bolivar and Jackson were ordered to Corinth, and cars were concentrated at Jackson for their transportation. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The Duke owned a great estate, of untold mineral wealth, which had never been properly worked because of lack of transportation facilities. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Modern countries especially are waking up to the necessity of good roads, not only as a necessary means of transportation, but as a pre-requisite to decent civilisation in all respects. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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