'Transport' definitions:

Definition of 'transport'

From: WordNet
noun
Something that serves as a means of transportation [syn: conveyance, transport]
noun
An exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes
noun
The commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials [syn: transportation, shipping, transport]
noun
A state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion; "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens [syn: ecstasy, rapture, transport, exaltation, raptus]
noun
A mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder [syn: tape drive, tape transport, transport]
noun
The act of moving something from one location to another [syn: transportation, transport, transfer, transferral, conveyance]
verb
Move something or somebody around; usually over long distances
verb
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" [syn: transport, carry]
verb
Hold spellbound [syn: enchant, enrapture, transport, enthrall, ravish, enthral, delight] [ant: disenchant, disillusion]
verb
Transport commercially [syn: transport, send, ship]
verb
Send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message" [syn: transmit, transfer, transport, channel, channelize, channelise]

Definition of 'Transport'

From: GCIDE
  • Transport \Trans*port"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transported; p. pr. & vb. n. Transporting.] [F. transporter, L. transportare; trans across + portare to carry. See Port bearing, demeanor.]
  • 1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops. --Hakluyt. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul. [1913 Webster]
  • [They] laugh as if transported with some fit Of passion. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • We shall then be transported with a nobler . . . wonder. --South. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Transport'

From: GCIDE
  • Transport \Trans"port\, n. [F. See Transport, v.]
  • 1. Transportation; carriage; conveyance. [1913 Webster]
  • The Romans . . . stipulated with the Carthaginians to furnish them with ships for transport and war. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
  • 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}. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture. [1913 Webster]
  • With transport views the airy rule his own, And swells on an imaginary throne. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
  • Say not, in transports of despair, That all your hopes are fled. --Doddridge. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. A convict transported, or sentenced to exile. [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'transport'

From: Moby Thesaurus