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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Transport \Trans"port\, n. [F. See {Transport}, v.] 1. Transportation; carriage; conveyance. [1913 Webster] The Romans . . . stipulated with the Carthaginians to furnish them with ships for transport and war. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster] 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}. [1913 Webster] 3. Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture. [1913 Webster] With transport views the airy rule his own, And swells on an imaginary throne. --Pope. [1913 Webster] Say not, in transports of despair, That all your hopes are fled. --Doddridge. [1913 Webster] 4. A convict transported, or sentenced to exile. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Transport \Trans*port"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Transported}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Transporting}.] [F. transporter, L. transportare; trans across + portare to carry. See {Port} bearing, demeanor.] 1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops. --Hakluyt. [1913 Webster] 2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish. [1913 Webster] 3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul. [1913 Webster] [They] laugh as if transported with some fit Of passion. --Milton. [1913 Webster] We shall then be transported with a nobler . . . wonder. --South. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: transport n 1: something that serves as a means of transportation [syn: {conveyance}, {transport}] 2: an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes 3: the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials [syn: {transportation}, {shipping}, {transport}] 4: a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion; "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens [syn: {ecstasy}, {rapture}, {transport}, {exaltation}, {raptus}] 5: a mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder [syn: {tape drive}, {tape transport}, {transport}] 6: the act of moving something from one location to another [syn: {transportation}, {transport}, {transfer}, {transferral}, {conveyance}] v 1: move something or somebody around; usually over long distances 2: move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body; "You must carry your camping gear"; "carry the suitcases to the car"; "This train is carrying nuclear waste"; "These pipes carry waste water into the river" [syn: {transport}, {carry}] 3: hold spellbound [syn: {enchant}, {enrapture}, {transport}, {enthrall}, {ravish}, {enthral}, {delight}] [ant: {disenchant}, {disillusion}] 4: transport commercially [syn: {transport}, {send}, {ship}] 5: send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message" [syn: {transmit}, {transfer}, {transport}, {channel}, {channelize}, {channelise}] From French-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.4 [fd-fra-eng]: transport /tʀɑ̃spɔʀ/ transport; transportation From Swedish-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 [fd-swe-eng]: transport transport From German-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.3 [fd-deu-eng]: Transport carriage; conveyance; freightage; portage; porterage; traction; transport; transportation From Dutch-English Freedict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 [fd-nld-eng]: transport /trɑnspɔrt/ 1. transport 2. transliteration From Danish-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 [fd-dan-eng]: transport transport