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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (6)

1. something that serves as a means of transportation;
[syn: conveyance, transport]

2. an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes;

3. the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials;
[syn: transportation, shipping, transport]

4. a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion;
- Example: "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens
[syn: ecstasy, rapture, transport, exaltation, raptus]

5. a mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder;
[syn: tape drive, tape transport, transport]

6. the act of moving something from one location to another;
[syn: transportation, transport, transfer, transferral, conveyance]


VERB (5)

1. move something or somebody around; usually over long distances;

2. move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body;
- Example: "You must carry your camping gear"
- Example: "carry the suitcases to the car"
- Example: "This train is carrying nuclear waste"
- Example: "These pipes carry waste water into the river"
[syn: transport, carry]

3. hold spellbound;
[syn: enchant, enrapture, transport, enthrall, ravish, enthral, delight]

4. transport commercially;
[syn: transport, send, ship]

5. send from one person or place to another;
- Example: "transmit a message"
[syn: transmit, transfer, transport, channel, channelize, channelise]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

transport n 1: something that serves as a means of transportation [syn: conveyance, transport] 2: an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes 3: the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials [syn: transportation, shipping, transport] 4: 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] 5: a mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder [syn: tape drive, tape transport, transport] 6: the act of moving something from one location to another [syn: transportation, transport, transfer, transferral, conveyance] v 1: move something or somebody around; usually over long distances 2: 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] 3: hold spellbound [syn: enchant, enrapture, transport, enthrall, ravish, enthral, delight] [ant: disenchant, disillusion] 4: transport commercially [syn: transport, send, ship] 5: send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message" [syn: transmit, transfer, transport, channel, channelize, channelise]