Etymology : Middle English, from Middle French or Latin; Middle French transporter, from Latin transportare, from trans- + portare to carry; more at FARE
Pronunciation : tran(t)s-pOrt, -port, tran(t)s
Function : transitive verb
Date : 14th century
1. act of transporting, conveyance; means of transporting (truck, ship, etc.). convey, carry, bear, transfer; deport. transport\trans"port\ , n. [f. see:
transport, v.].
2. transportation; carriage; conveyance. the romans stipulated with the carthaginians to furnish them with ships for transport and war.
3. 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.
4. 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. --doddridge.
5. a convict transported, or sentenced to exile.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.].
6. to carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops. akluyt.
7. to carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish.
8. 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.transport n.
9. something that serves as a means of transportation [syn: conveyance].
10. an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes.
11. the commercial enterprise of transporting goods and materials [syn: transportation, shipping].
12. a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion: "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- charles dickens [syn: ecstasy, rapture, exaltation, raptus].
13. a mechanism that transport magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder [syn: tape drive , tape transport] 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: carry] 3: hold spellbound [syn: enchant, enrapture, enthrall, ravish, enthral, delight] [ant: disenchant] 4: transport commercially [syn: send, ship] 5: send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message" [syn: transmit, transfer, channel, channelize].
14. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.
15. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish.
16. To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul.
17. Transportation; carriage; conveyance.
18. 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.
19. Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.
20. A convict transported, or sentenced to exile. an exchange of molecules across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes 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" transport commercially move something or somebody around; usually over long distances.
21. ,-tu transport.
22. charges for postal service.
23. 1. Transport refers to any vehicle that you can travel in or carry goods in. Have you got your own transport?.
24. Transport is a system for taking people or goods from one place to another, for example using buses or trains. The extra money could be spent on improving public transport.
25. Transport is the activity of taking goods or people from one place to another in a vehicle. Local production virtually eliminates transport costs.
26. To transport people or goods somewhere is to take them from one place to another in a vehicle. There's no petrol, so it's very difficult to transport goods They use tankers to transport the oil to Los Angeles.
27. If you say that you are transported to another place or time, you mean that something causes you to feel that you are living in the other place or at the other time. Dr Drummond felt that he had been transported into a world that rivalled the Arabian Nights This delightful musical comedy transports the audience to the innocent days of 1950s America. In biochemistry, the movement of molecules and particles across a cell membrane, a selective barrier that allows some substances (fat-soluble molecules and some small molecules) to pass and blocks others (ions and large, water-soluble molecules). Transport of these vital substances occurs via several systems. Open channels allow diffusion (passive transport) of ions directly into cells; facilitators use a chemical change to help substances diffuse past the membrane; "pumps" force dilute substances through even when their concentration on the other side is higher (a form of active transport). Primary active transport is powered directly by energy released in cell metabolism (see:
ATP, adenosine triphosphate). In secondary active transport, a molecule is linked to a different molecule that carries it across the membrane (cotransport) or is exchanged for a different molecule crossing in the other direction (countertransport). The membrane itself opens and closes to let larger particles in or out.