'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
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
- abandon,
- agitate,
- air express,
- airfreight,
- airlift,
- ardor,
- asportation,
- ban,
- banish,
- bear,
- bearing,
- beatification,
- beatitude,
- becharm,
- beguile,
- bewitch,
- bewitchment,
- blackball,
- blessedness,
- bliss,
- blissfulness,
- bring,
- buck,
- captivate,
- carriage,
- carrier,
- carry,
- carry away,
- carrying,
- cartage,
- cast a spell,
- cast out,
- charm,
- cheer,
- cheerfulness,
- cloud nine,
- conduct,
- convey,
- conveyance,
- craze,
- cut,
- delectate,
- delectation,
- delight,
- delirium,
- deliver,
- deport,
- disfellowship,
- displace,
- drayage,
- ecstasy,
- ecstatics,
- elation,
- electrify,
- elevate,
- Elysium,
- enchant,
- enchantment,
- enrapture,
- enravish,
- enthrall,
- enthusiasm,
- entrance,
- euphoria,
- exaltation,
- excite,
- exclude,
- excommunicate,
- exhilaration,
- exile,
- expatriate,
- expel,
- expressage,
- extradite,
- exuberance,
- exultation,
- fascinate,
- felicity,
- ferriage,
- ferry,
- fervor,
- fetch,
- fire and fury,
- fly,
- forward,
- freak out,
- freight,
- freightage,
- frenzy,
- fugitate,
- furor,
- furore,
- fury,
- gaiety,
- get,
- gladness,
- glee,
- happiness,
- haul,
- haulage,
- hauling,
- heaven,
- high spirits,
- hump,
- hypnotize,
- hysteria,
- imparadise,
- infatuate,
- inflame,
- intoxication,
- intrigue,
- joy,
- joyance,
- joyfulness,
- knock dead,
- knock out,
- lift,
- lighterage,
- lug,
- lugging,
- madness,
- manhandle,
- mesmerize,
- move,
- moving,
- orgasm,
- orgy,
- ostracize,
- outlaw,
- overhappiness,
- overjoyfulness,
- pack,
- packing,
- paradise,
- passion,
- portage,
- porterage,
- proscribe,
- provoke,
- quicken,
- rage,
- railway express,
- rapture,
- ravish,
- ravishment,
- relegate,
- remove,
- rhapsody,
- rusticate,
- send,
- send away,
- send down,
- send to Coventry,
- seventh heaven,
- ship,
- shipment,
- shipping,
- slay,
- snub,
- spell,
- spellbind,
- spurn,
- stimulate,
- stir up,
- sunshine,
- take,
- tearing passion,
- telpherage,
- thrill,
- thrust out,
- tickle,
- tickle pink,
- titillate,
- tote,
- toting,
- towering rage,
- trance,
- transfer,
- transferral,
- transit,
- transmit,
- transportation,
- transporting,
- transshipment,
- truckage,
- unalloyed happiness,
- uplift,
- vamp,
- waft,
- waftage,
- wagonage,
- whisk,
- wing,
- witch,
- wow
Words containing 'Transport'
- Transportability,
- Transportable,
- Transportal,
- Transportance,
- Transportant,
- Transportation,
- Transported,
- Transportedly,
- Transporter,
- Transporting,
- Transportingly,
- Transportment,
- active transport,
- air transport,
- air transportation,
- car transporter,
- department of transportation,
- passive transport,
- public transport,
- secretary of transportation,
- tape transport,
- transport ship,
- transport vessel,
- transportation company,
- transportation secretary,
- transportation system,
- troop transport,
- air transportation system,
- ministry of transportation test,
- segway human transporter,
- transportation security administration,
- cystic fibrosis transport regulator