transport Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun something that serves as a means of transportation
    conveyance.
  2. noun an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes
  3. noun the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials
    transportation; shipping.
  4. noun a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion
    rapture; ecstasy; raptus; exaltation.
    • listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens
  5. noun a mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder
    tape transport; tape drive.
  6. noun the act of moving something from one location to another
    transfer; conveyance; transportation; transferral.
  7. verb move something or somebody around; usually over long distances
  8. verb move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body
    carry.
    • 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
  9. verb hold spellbound
    enthrall; ravish; delight; enthral; enrapture; enchant.
  10. verb transport commercially
    ship; send.
  11. verb send from one person or place to another
    transfer; channelise; transmit; channelize; channel.
    • transmit a message

WordNet

Trans*port" transitive verb
Etymology
F. transporter, L. transportare; trans across + portare to carry. See Port bearing, demeanor.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Transported; present participle & verbal noun Transporting
Definitions
  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 noun
Etymology
F. See Transport, v.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913