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Transport   /trænspˈɔrt/  /trˈænspɔrt/   Listen
noun
Transport  n.  
1.
Transportation; carriage; conveyance. "The Romans... stipulated with the Carthaginians to furnish them with ships for transport and war."
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." "Say not, in transports of despair, That all your hopes are fled."
4.
A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.


verb
Transport  v. t.  (past & past part. transported; pres. part. transporting)  
1.
To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.
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." "We shall then be transported with a nobler... wonder."





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"Transport" Quotes from Famous Books



... seats in the house, but she had no heart for sitting on any one of them; she could only fling herself on the floor of her own room and cry; whereon all the maids in the house, both old and young, gathered round her and began to cry too, till at last in a transport of ...
— The Odyssey • Homer
... stated what he had said, my sisters were in a transport of mingled anger and disappointment, and gave utterance to many unkind remarks against our good, indulgent father. As for my oldest sister, she declared that she would go in spite of him, and proposed our ...
— All's for the Best • T. S. Arthur
... Devil, and write the bitterest Philippicks against the eye that ever man wrote—there is one in verse upon somebody's eye or other, that for two or three nights together, had put him by his rest; which in his first transport of resentment against it, ...
— The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman • Laurence Sterne
... West, she grounded, and to escape capture he got off and floated down the river on a cotton bale, and, being in the water about three hours, the exposure caused a disease of the urinary organs; and that a few days after, while coming up the river on a transport, the boat was fired into and several balls passed through his left thigh. It seems that this claim was not definitely passed upon, but it is stated that the records failed to show that McKay was in ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 3 (of 3) of Volume 8: Grover Cleveland, First Term. • Grover Cleveland
... the bicycle, the chilly weather proves an inducement for following them afoot, rather than occupy a kago myself. The block road is broad enough for a wagon, being constructed, no doubt, with a view to military transport service. The long steep slopes are literally carpeted in places with the worn-out straw ...
— Around the World on a Bicycle Volume II. - From Teheran To Yokohama • Thomas Stevens


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