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 Definitions of Transport  [ænsˈpɒn tɪn, -taɪn]  

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Definition of 'Transport' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

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"


Definition of 'Transport' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

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


Translation of 'Transport' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

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.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: vervoer Arabic flag Arabic: يَنْقُل مُسافرين أو بَضائ Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: пренасям
Brazilian flag Brazilian: transportar Czech flag Czech: přepravit German flag German: transportieren
Danish flag Danish: transportere Greek flag Greek: μεταφέρω Spanish flag Spanish: transportar
Estonian flag Estonian: transportima Farsi flag Farsi: حمل کردن؛ بردن Finnish flag Finnish: kuljettaa
French flag French: transporter Hebrew flag Hebrew: לְהוֹבִיל Hindi flag Hindi: वहन करना
Croatian flag Croatian: prijevoz, transport Hungarian flag Hungarian: szállít Indonesian flag Indonesian: mengangkut
Icelandic flag Icelandic: flytja (á milli) Italian flag Italian: traspostare Japanese flag Japanese: 輸送する
Korean flag Korean: 운송하다 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: pervežti Latvian flag Latvian: transportēt; pārvadāt
Malay flag Malay: mengangkut Dutch flag Dutch: vervoeren Norwegian flag Norwegian: transportere, bringe, sen
Polish flag Polish: przewozić Persian flag Persian: حمل کردن؛ بردن Pashto flag Pashto: لیږدول، وړل
Portuguese flag Portuguese: transportar Romanian flag Romanian: a transporta Russian flag Russian: перевозить
Slovak flag Slovak: prepraviť, transportovať Slovenian flag Slovenian: prepeljati Serbian flag Serbian: transportovati
Swedish flag Swedish: transportera Thai flag Thai: บรรทุก Turkish flag Turkish: taşımak
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 運輸,運送 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: перевозити; переміщати Urdu flag Urdu: مال يا مسافروں کو ايک جگہ
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: vận chuyển Chinese flag Chinese: 运输,运送

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