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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TRANSPORT, v.t. [L. transporto; trans and porto, to carry.]
1. To carry or convey from one place to another, either by means of beasts or vehicles on land, or by ships in water, or by balloons in air; as, to transport the baggage of an army; to transport goods from one country to another; to transport troops over a river.
2. To carry into banishment, as a criminal. Criminals are transported as a punishment for their crimes,which often amounts to banishment.
3. To hurry or carry away by violence of passion.
They laugh as if transported with some fit of passion.
4. To ravish with pleasure; to bear away the soul in ecstasy; as, to be transported with joy.
5. To remove from one place to another, as a ship by means of hawsers and anchors.
TRANS'PORT, n. Transportation; carriage; conveyance.
The Romans stipulated with the Carthaginians to furnish them with ships for transport and war.
1. A ship or vessel employed for carrying soldiers, warlike stores or provisions from one place to another, or to convey convicts to the place of their destination.
2. Rapture; ecstasy. The news of victory was received with transports of joy.
3. A convict transported or sentenced to exile.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

I. transitive verb Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French or Latin; Anglo-French transporter, from Latin transportare, from trans- + portare to carry — more at fare Date: 14th century 1. to transfer or convey from one place to another <transporting ions across a living membrane> 2. to carry away with strong and often intensely pleasant emotion 3. to send to a penal colony overseas Synonyms: see banish • transportability noun • transportable adjective II. noun Date: 1611 1. an act or process of transporting ; transportation 2. strong or intensely pleasurable emotion <transports of joy> 3. a. a ship for carrying soldiers or military equipment b. a vehicle (as a truck or airplane) used to transport persons or goods c. transportation 3 4. a transported convict Synonyms: see ecstasy

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. & n. --v.tr. 1 take or carry (a person, goods, troops, baggage, etc.) from one place to another. 2 hist. take (a criminal) to a penal colony; deport. 3 (as transported adj.) (usu. foll. by with) affected with strong emotion. --n. 1 a a system of conveying people, goods, etc., from place to place. b the means of this (our transport has arrived). 2 a ship, aircraft, etc. used to carry soldiers, stores, etc. 3 (esp. in pl.) vehement emotion (transports of joy). 4 hist. a transported convict. Phrases and idioms: transport café Brit. a roadside café for (esp. commercial) drivers. Etymology: ME f. OF transporter or L transportare (as TRANS-, portare carry)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Transport Trans"port, n. [F. See Transport, v.] 1. Transportation; carriage; conveyance. The Romans . . . stipulated with the Carthaginians to furnish them with ships for transport and war. --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. --Pope. Say not, in transports of despair, That all your hopes are fled. --Doddridge. 4. A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. 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. --Milton. We shall then be transported with a nobler . . . wonder. --South.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(transported) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. Transport refers to any vehicle that you can travel in or carry goods in. (mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use transportation) Have you got your own transport?... 2. Transport is a system for taking people or goods from one place to another, for example using buses or trains. (mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use transportation) The extra money could be spent on improving public transport... 3. Transport is the activity of taking goods or people from one place to another in a vehicle. (mainly BRIT; in AM, usually use transportation) Local production virtually eliminates transport costs. 4. 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... VERB: V n, V n prep/adv 5. 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. (mainly LITERARY) 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. VERB: be V-ed prep/adv, V n prep/adv

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. v. a. 1. Carry (from one place to another), convey, bear, fetch, remove, transfer. 2. Banish (to a penal colony), carry into banishment. 3. Enrapture, ravish, enravish, entrance, beatify, put into ecstasy, make very happy, delight. 4. Carry away (by excitement of any kind). II. n. 1. Conveyance, transportation, carriage, transporting. 2. Transport-ship, transport-vessel. 3. Convict (sentenced to banishment), felon. 4. Rapture, ravishment, beatitude, ecstasy, beatification, bliss, happiness, felicity. 5. Warmth, vehemence, violent manifestation, passion. 6. Convict sentenced to exile.

Moby Thesaurus

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