transport
Noun · VerbUS[tran-spawrt]/trænˈspɔrt/2 syllablesalso [tran-spawrt] /ˈtrænspɔrt/
Synonyms:
conveyancetransportationshippingecstasyraptureexaltationraptustape drivetape transporttransfertransferralcarry
Open English WordNet
Verb (5)transports, transported, transporting
- move something or somebody around; usually over long distancesMore general move, displaceMore specific pick up, wheel, float, carry over, truck, raft, wheelbarrow, ferry, sledge, advect +7 more
- 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”Synonyms: carryMore general move, displaceMore specific bring, drive, bear, lug, haul, fly, pack, return, pipe in, port +5 moreSimilar carry
- hold spellboundSynonyms: enchantenraptureenthrallravishenthraldelightMore general please, delight
- transport commerciallySynonyms: sendshipMore general move, displaceMore specific dispatch, forward, railroad, barge
- send from one person or place to another“transmit a message”Synonyms: transmittransferchannelchannelizechanneliseMore general move, displaceMore specific bring, send, turn, project, translate, propagate
Noun (6)transports
- something that serves as a means of transportationSynonyms: conveyanceType of instrumentality, instrumentationKinds vehicle, mail, mine cage, public transport, horsebox, litter, trailer, telpher, roll-on roll-off, ski tow +4 more
- an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranesType of diffusionKinds passive transport, active transport
- the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materialsSynonyms: transportationshippingType of commercial enterprise, business enterpriseKinds freight, hauling, air transportation, ferry, navigation, expressPart of commerce, commercialism
- a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion“listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture — Charles Dickens”Synonyms: ecstasyraptureexaltationraptusType of emotional state, spirit
- a mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorderSynonyms: tape drivetape transportType of mechanismPart of tape deck, tape recorder
- the act of moving something from one location to anotherSynonyms: transportationtransfertransferralconveyanceType of movementKinds delivery, drive, carry, resettlement, lighterage, transshipment, connection, airlift, teleportationParts pickup
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Translations
Noun act of transporting
- Spanish
- transporte
- French
- transport
- German
- Transport
- Italian
- trasporto
- Portuguese
- transporte
- Turkish
- taşıma
- Russian
- транспортиро́вка transportiróvka
- Arabic
- نَقْل naql
- Chinese
- 运输 yùnshū
- Japanese
- 運送 unsō
35 more languages
- Dutch
- transport
- Polish
- transport
- Swedish
- transport
- Greek
- μεταφορά metaforá
- Korean
- 운송 unsong
- Indonesian
- transportasi
- Vietnamese
- vận tải
- Hungarian
- szállítás
- Portuguese (PT)
- transporte
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 運輸 yùnshū
- Albanian
- transport
- Breton
- treuzdougen
- Catalan
- transport
- Corsican
- trasportu
- Czech
- doprava
- Danish
- transport
- Esperanto
- transporto
- Estonian
- transport
- Finnish
- kuljetus
- Georgian
- ტრანსპორტი ṭransṗorṭi
- Hebrew
- תחבורה takhburá
- Icelandic
- flutningur
- Kurdish
- veguhastin
- Latvian
- transports
- Lithuanian
- transportas
- Norwegian
- transport
- Romanian
- transport
- Scottish Gaelic
- còmhdhail
- Serbo-Croatian
- prijevoz
- Slovak
- doprava
- Slovenian
- transport
- Swahili
- usafiri
- Walloon
- transpôrt
- Welsh
- trafnidiaeth
- Yiddish
- טראַנספּאָרט transport
Verb carry or bear from one place to another
- Spanish
- transportar
- French
- transporter
- German
- befördern
- Italian
- trasportare
- Portuguese
- transportar
- Russian
- перевози́ть perevozítʹ
- Arabic
- نَقَلَ naqala
- Dutch
- overbrengen
- Polish
- przewozić
- Swedish
- befordra
12 more languages
- Vietnamese
- vận chuyển
- Hungarian
- szállít
- Portuguese (PT)
- transportar
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 運輸 yùnshū
- Catalan
- transportar
- Czech
- dopravit
- Esperanto
- transporti
- Finnish
- kuljettaa
- Georgian
- ტრანსპორტირება transportireba
- Norwegian
- føre
- Romanian
- transporta
- Swahili
- safirisha
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Trans·port′ transitive verb [past tense & past participle Transported; present participle & verbal noun Transporting.]
Origin: 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. Richard Hakluyt
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.— John Milton
We shall then be transported with a nobler... wonder.— Robert South
Trans′port noun
Origin: F. See Transport, verb
1. Transportation; carriage; conveyance.
The Romans... stipulated with the Carthaginians to furnish them with ships for transport and war.— John Arbuthnot
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.— Alexander Pope
Say not, in transports of despair, That all your hopes are fled.— Philip Doddridge
4. A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54