From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
transport
n 1: something that serves as a means of transportation [syn:
conveyance]
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 transporting goods and
materials [syn: transportation, shipping]
4: a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion;
"listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles
Dickens [syn: ecstasy, rapture, exaltation,
raptus]
5: a mechanism that transport magnetic tape across the
read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder [syn: {tape
drive}, tape transport]
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: carry]
3: hold spellbound [syn: enchant, enrapture, enthrall,
ravish, enthral, delight] [ant: disenchant]
4: transport commercially [syn: send, ship]
5: send from one person or place to another; "transmit a
message" [syn: transmit, transfer, channel,
channelize, channelise]
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.
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2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a
criminal; to banish.
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3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow,
complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or
ecstasy; as, music transports the soul.
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[They] laugh as if transported with some fit
Of passion. --Milton.
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We shall then be transported with a nobler . . .
wonder. --South.
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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.
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The Romans . . . stipulated with the Carthaginians
to furnish them with ships for transport and war.
--Arbuthnot.
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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}.
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3. Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.
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With transport views the airy rule his own,
And swells on an imaginary throne. --Pope.
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Say not, in transports of despair,
That all your hopes are fled. --Doddridge.
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4. A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.
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