transport
/trænspɔ:t/
Definition
Noun:
- The act or process of moving people or goods from one place to another: "Transport" refers to the system or industry involved in moving passengers or cargo.
- A vehicle or system of vehicles used for this purpose: "Transport" can also mean a specific means of conveyance, such as a bus, ship, or aircraft.
- An overwhelming emotional experience: In a figurative sense, "transport" describes a state of intense feeling or rapture.
- A mechanism for moving something within a machine: In technology, "transport" refers to a device that moves components, like tape in a recorder.
Verb:
- To carry or move people or goods from one place to another: The primary meaning is to convey something over a distance.
- To cause someone to feel strong emotion, especially delight: To fill someone with overwhelming feeling.
- To move something or someone around, often over long distances: This emphasizes the action of relocation.
Examples of Usage
Noun:
- Public transport in the city is very efficient. (The system for moving people is efficient.)
- The army used trucks for transport. (The trucks were the means of conveyance.)
- She was in a transport of joy upon hearing the news. (She was in a state of intense joy.)
Verb:
- This pipeline will transport natural gas across the country. (It will carry the gas.)
- The beautiful symphony transported the audience. (It filled the audience with intense emotion.)
- The company transports goods internationally. (It moves goods over long distances.)
Advanced Usage
- "Transport of delight": A state of great joy or rapture.
- The perfect performance sent him into a transport of delight.
- "Transport network": The interconnected system of roads, rails, etc., for moving people and goods.
- The country is investing in its transport network.
Variants and Related Words
- Transportation (n): The action or business of transporting; often used interchangeably with "transport" as a noun in American English.
- The transportation of hazardous materials is regulated.
- Transporter (n): A person or company that transports goods; also, a large vehicle for carrying goods.
- He works as a freight transporter.
- Transportable (adj): Capable of being transported.
- The device is lightweight and easily transportable.
Synonyms
- Convey: To transport or carry to a place.
- Ship: To send (goods) by sea or other means.
- Carry: To support and move someone or something from one place to another.
Related Phrasal Verbs
(Note: "Transport" is not commonly used with particles to form standard phrasal verbs. The action is typically expressed with prepositions like "to" or "across.")
Related Idioms
- To be transported (with something): To be overcome with a powerful emotion.
- She was transported with grief at the loss.
- Means of transport: A method or vehicle for traveling or moving goods.
- What is your preferred means of transport?
Noun
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the act of moving something from one location to another
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a mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder
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a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion
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listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture- Charles Dickens
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the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials
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an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes
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something that serves as a means of transportation
Verb
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send from one person or place to another
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transmit a message
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transport commercially
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hold spellbound
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move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body
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You must carry your camping gear
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carry the suitcases to the car
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This train is carrying nuclear waste
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These pipes carry waste water into the river
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move something or somebody around; usually over long distances
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