English Dictionary: transporting | by the DICT Development Group |
2 results for transporting | |
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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Transporting \Trans*port"ing\, a. That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. --Keble. |