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transport

[trans-pawrt, -pohrt, trans-pawrt, -pohrt]

verb (used with object)

  1. to carry, move, or convey from one place to another.

  2. to carry away by strong emotion; enrapture.

  3. to send into banishment, especially to a penal colony.



noun

  1. the act of transporting or conveying; conveyance.

  2. a means of transporting or conveying, as a truck or bus.

  3. a ship or plane employed for transporting soldiers, military stores, etc.

  4. an airplane carrying freight or passengers as part of a transportation system.

  5. a system of public travel.

  6. transportation.

  7. strong emotion; ecstatic joy, bliss, etc.

    Synonyms: ,
  8. a convict sent into banishment, especially to a penal colony.

    The country had been colonized largely by transports.

  9. Also called tape transport.Recording.a mechanism that moves magnetic tape past the head in a tape deck or tape recorder.

transport

verb

  1. to carry or cause to go from one place to another, esp over some distance

  2. to deport or exile to a penal colony

  3. (usually passive) to have a strong emotional effect on

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

noun

    1. the business or system of transporting goods or people

    2. ( as modifier )

      a modernized transport system

  1. freight vehicles generally

    1. a vehicle used to transport goods or people, esp lorries or ships used to convey troops

    2. ( as modifier )

      a transport plane

  2. the act of transporting or the state of being transported

  3. ecstasy, rapture, or any powerful emotion

  4. a convict sentenced to be transported

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • transportable adjective
  • transportability noun
  • transportive adjective
  • countertransport noun
  • nontransportability noun
  • nontransportable adjective
  • pretransport verb (used with object)
  • untransportable adjective
  • ٰԲˈǰپ adjective
  • ٰԲˈǰٱ noun
  • ˌٰԲǰٲˈٲ noun
  • ٰԲˈǰٲ adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of transport1

First recorded in 1325–75; Middle English transporten (verb), from Latin ٰԲǰ “to carry across”; equivalent to trans- + port 5
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of transport1

C14: from Latin ٰԲǰ , from trans- + ǰ to carry
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Synonym Study

See carry. See ecstasy.
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Example Sentences

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It can make it more expensive to run farm machinery, to transport produce, and to process and package food.

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Police received intelligence that the three taxi drivers were planning to leave the UK and had already paid a deposit for their transport.

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Another Tory peer, former transport secretary Lord Howell, warned that the need for staff to manually operate the door meant Parliament was "haemorrhaging money".

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It added that the aid transported on the FFC boat, which included baby formula and medicine, would be transferred to Gaza "through real humanitarian channels".

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Colonizers invade and drive people out or enslave, transport, enclose and imprison them while barricading off the privileged spaces they create for themselves.

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