1. (v.t.)transport to carry, move, or convey from one place to another.
2. transport to carry away by strong emotion; enrapture.
3. transport to send into banishment, esp. to a penal colony.
4. (n.)transport the act of transporting or conveying; conveyance.
5. transport a means of transporting or conveying, as a truck or bus.
6. transport a ship or plane for transporting soldiers, military stores, etc.
7. transport an airplane carrying freight or passengers as part of a transportation system.
8. transport a system of public travel.
9. transport strong emotion, esp. ecstatic joy, bliss, etc.; rapture.
10. transport a convict sent into banishment, esp. to a penal colony.
11. transport a mechanism that moves magnetic tape past the head in a tape deck or tape recorder.
Etymology: (1325–75; ME < L trānsportāre to carry across. See trans -, port5)
Definition of 'Transport'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)conveyance, transport something that serves as a means of transportation
2. (noun)transport 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)transportation, shipping, transport the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials
4. (noun)ecstasy, rapture, transport, exaltation, raptus a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens
5. (noun)tape drive, tape transport, transport a mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder
6. (verb)transportation, transport, transfer, transferral, conveyance the act of moving something from one location to another
7. (verb)transport move something or somebody around; usually over long distances
8. (verb)transport, carry 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"
9. (verb)enchant, enrapture, transport, enthrall, ravish, enthral, delight hold spellbound
10. (verb)transport, send, ship transport commercially
11. (verb)transmit, transfer, transport, channel, channelize, channelise send from one person or place to another "transmit a message"
1. (verb)transport to move people or things from one place to another to transport goods by train; a little train that transports visitors to the harbor
2. (noun)transport the process of transporting people or things from one place to another the transport of goods from the warehouse to the stores
3. transport transportation a national transport network; public transport
Definition of 'Transport'
Webster Dictionary
1. Transport transportation; carriage; conveyance
2. Transport 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. Transport vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture
4. Transport a convict transported, or sentenced to exile
5. (verb)Transport to carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops
6. (verb)Transport to carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish
7. (verb)Transport to carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul
Sense: to carry (goods, passengers etc) from one place to another The goods were transported by air; A bus transported us from the airport to the city.