English
transport
Etymology

From Middle English transporten, a borrowing from Old French transporter, from Latin trānsportō, from trans + porto.

Pronunciation
Verb
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: trănspôrtʹ, tränspôrtʹ, IPA: /tɹænsˈpɔːt/, /tɹɑːnˈspɔːt/
  • (America) enPR: trănspôrtʹ, IPA: /tɹænsˈpɔɹt/
  • (rhotic, non-horse-hoarse) IPA: /tɹænsˈpo(ː)ɹt/
  • (non-rhotic, non-horse-hoarse) IPA: /tɹænsˈpoət/
Noun
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: trănsʹpôrt, tränsʹpôrt, IPA: /ˈtɹæns.pɔːt/, /ˈtɹɑːnspɔːt/
  • (America) enPR: trănsʹpôrt, IPA: /ˈtɹæns.pɔɹt/
  • (rhotic, non-horse-hoarse) IPA: /ˈtɹæns.po(ː)ɹt/
  • (non-rhotic, non-horse-hoarse) IPA: /ˈtɹæns.poət/
Verb

transport (transports, present participle transporting; simple past and past participle transported)

  1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.
    to transport goods; to transport troops
  2. (historical) To deport to a penal colony.
  3. (figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.
    Music transports the soul.
    • 1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson;  […], published 1634, →OCLC ↗, Act I, scene i, page 1 ↗:
      Thes. Pray you kneele not,
      I was transported with your Speech, and suffer'd
      Your knees to wrong themselves; I have heard the fortunes
      Of your dead Lords, which gives me such lamenting
      As wakes my vengeance, and revenge for 'em.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC ↗; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC ↗:
      [They] laugh as if transported with some fit / Of passion.
    • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
      We shall then be transported with a nobler […] wonder.
Conjugation
Conjugation of transport

infinitive (to) transport
present tense past tense
1st-person singular transport transported
2nd-person singular

 transport, transportest†

 transported, transportedst†
3rd-person singular

 transports, transporteth†

 transported
plural

 transport

subjunctive

 transport

transported
imperative

 transport

—
participles

 transporting

 transported

†Archaic or obsolete.

Synonyms Translations Translations Translations Noun

transport

  1. An act of transporting; conveyance.
    The transport of goods is not included in the price given on the website.
  2. 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.
  3. A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.)
  4. (Canada) A tractor-trailer.
  5. The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.
    The local transport received a big boost as part of the mayor's infrastructural plans.
  6. A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.
  7. (historical) A deported convict.
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