transport
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- Verb
- (RP) enPR trănzpôrtʹ, IPA: /tɹænzˈpɔːt/, /tɹɑːnˈspɔːt/
- (America) enPR: trănzpôrtʹ, IPA: /tɹænzˈpɔɹt/
- (rhotic, horse-hoarse) IPA: /tɹænzˈpo(ː)ɹt/
- (nonrhotic, horse-hoarse) IPA: /tɹænzˈpoət/
- Noun
- (RP) enPR trănzʹpôrt, IPA: /ˈtɹænz.pɔːt/, /ˈtɹɑːnspɔːt/
- (America) enPR: trănzʹpôrt, IPA: /ˈtɹænz.pɔɹt/
- (rhotic, horse-hoarse) IPA: /ˈtɹænz.po(ː)ɹt/
- (nonrhotic, horse-hoarse) IPA: /ˈtɹænz.poət/
transport (transports, present participle transporting; past and past participle transported)
- To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.
- to transport goods; to transport troops
- (historical) To deport to a penal colony.
- (figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.
- Music transports the soul.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 9”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: Printed [by Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […] [a]nd by Robert Boulter […] [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], OCLC 228722708 ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: The Text Exactly Reproduced from the First Edition of 1667: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554 ↗:
- [They] laugh as if transported with some fit / Of passion.
- We shall then be transported with a nobler […] wonder.
- (carry or bear from one place to another) convey, ferry, move, relocate, shift, ship
- (historical: deport to a penal colony) banish, deport, exile, expatriate, extradite
- (move someone to strong emotion) carry away, enrapture
- French: reporter, transporter
- German: transportieren, befördern
- Italian: trasportare
- Portuguese: transportar
- Russian: перевози́ть
- Spanish: transportar
- Italian: trasportare
transport
- An act of transporting; conveyance.
- The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.
- 1919, Elisabeth P. Stork (translator), Heidi, Johanna Spyri, page 53 ↗:
- In her transport at finding such treasures, Heidi even forgot Peter and his goats.
- 1919, Elisabeth P. Stork (translator), Heidi, Johanna Spyri, page 53 ↗:
- A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.)
- (Canada) A tractor-trailer.
- The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.
- A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.
- (historical) A deported convict.
- (act of transporting) conveyance, ferrying, moving, relocation, shifting, shipping
- (state of being transported by emotion) rapture
- ((military) vehicle used to transport troops)
- (vehicle used to transport passengers, mail or freight)
- (system of transporting people) See public transport
- (device that moves recording tape across the heads of a recorder)
- (historical: deported convict) deportee, exile, expatriate
- French: transport
- Italian: trasporto, porto
- Portuguese: transporte
- Russian: перево́зка
- Spanish: transporte
- French: transport
- German: Beförderung
- Russian: тра́нспорт
- Spanish: transporte
- Russian: тра́нспорт
- Spanish: deportado
- antitransport
- transportability
- transportable
- transportage
- transportation
- transporter
- transportive
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