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/trænspˈɔrt/ /trˈænspɔrt/ Listen

noun

Transport n.

1.

Transportation; carriage; conveyance. "The Romans... stipulated with the Carthaginians to furnish them with ships for transport and war."

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." "Say not, in transports of despair, That all your hopes are fled."

4.

A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.

verb

Transport v. t. (past & past part. transported; pres. part. transporting)

1.

To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.

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." "We shall then be transported with a nobler... wonder."

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"Transport" Quotes from Famous Books

... news he was glad, but expressed regret that Norman should go to America. He did not wish to lose his situation, and never thought the old man would take him to the States also. Deborah vowed that if Aaron did want to transport Bart—so she put it—she would object. Then she unfolded a scheme by which, with Bart's savings and her own, they could start a laundry. "And I knows a drying ground," said Deborah, while talking at supper ...

— The Opal Serpent • Fergus Hume

... quite close," Anderson answered. "When once it is there, all our difficulties of transport are over." ...

— The Arbiter - A Novel • Lady F. E. E. Bell

... large cattle ranches, and dressed beef and pork are largely exported; the climate is subject to extremes; coal, iron, lead, zinc, and other minerals abound, while marble, granite, and limestone are quarried; the rivers afford excellent transport facilities; the educational system is very complete; admitted to the Union in 1821, Missouri was divided in the Civil War, and suffered terribly, but since then has been very prosperous; the capital, St. Louis (452), is one of the greatest commercial and manufacturing ...

— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood

... friend who went by the impressive name of Thomas Jefferson Taliaferro (pronounced Tolliver), who was in the express business; and who, after surveying the boat with some misgivings,—for she was ten feet long,—finally consented to transport her to "tide-water" for the sum of two dollars. But it proved that our combined resources only amounted to a dollar and seventy-five cents. Ham Durrett never contributed to anything. On this sum ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... "I'm changing the routine of the night patrol. A fresh batch of youngsters came in this afternoon to fill the empty files; two dozen new planes arrived by transport, too. I'm sending ten of them over for the night patrol; Stephens will take your place. I've got another errand ...

— Astounding Stories, February, 1931 • Various

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