Hypertext Webster Gateway: "transport"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Transport \Trans"port\, n. [F. See {Transport}, v.]
1. Transportation; carriage; conveyance.
The Romans . . . stipulated with the Carthaginians
to furnish them with ships for transport and war.
--Arbuthnot.
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. --Pope.
Say not, in transports of despair, That all your
hopes are fled. --Doddridge.
4. A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
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. --Milton.
We shall then be transported with a nobler . . .
wonder. --South.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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}]
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