transport
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle English transporten, a borrowing from Old French transporter (“carry or convey across”), from Latin trānsportō, from trans (“across”) + porto (“to carry”). By surface analysis, trans- (“beyond, across, through”) + port (“to carry, bear, or convey; to bring”).
Inflected forms:
form: transports
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: transporting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: transported
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: transported
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: transport
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: transport
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: transported
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: transport
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: transportest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: transported
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: transportedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: transports
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: transporteth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: transported
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: transport
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: transported
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: transport
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: transported
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: transport
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: transporting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: transported
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: transports
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.
pos: verb
examples: to transport goods; to transport troops
But the village's growth was curbed by the cliffs that restricted onward exploration for visitors, while goods such as coal and lime, which had arrived by water, were being transported up the severe incline to the town of Lynton by horse and cart.
gloss: To deport to a penal colony.
pos: verb
tags: historical
gloss: To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: Music transports the soul.
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.
[They] laugh as if transported with some fit / Of passion.
We shall then be transported with a nobler […] wonder.
gloss: An act of transporting; conveyance.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The transport of goods is not included in the price given on the website.
gloss: The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: In her transport at finding such treasures, Heidi even forgot Peter and his goats.
gloss: A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.)
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A tractor-trailer.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
countable
uncountable
gloss: The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The local transport received a big boost as part of the mayor's infrastructural plans.
gloss: A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A deported convict.
pos: noun
tags: countable
historical
uncountable
Synonyms: deport
extradite
exile
expatriate
Related words: antitransport
transportability
transportable
transportage
transportation
transporter
transportive
Derived words: active transport
air transport
auto transport truck
biotransport
chemotransport
copper transport disease
cotransport
countertransport
cyber transport
cyber transport system
cyber transport systems
electrotransport
hydrotransport
light rail transport system
magnetotransport
means of transport
Metropolis light transport
mistransport
mode of transport
nanotransport
paleotransport
parallel transport
pretransport
public transport
rail transport
retransport
retrotransport
teletransport
thermotransport
transportal
transportance
transportant
transport caf
transport café
transportin
transport interchange
transportless
transportment
transportome
transport poverty
transport protein
transport rider
transport safety board
transport ship
transport stage
transport tetany
transport vesicle
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