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English Dictionary: transporting by the DICT Development Group
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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.
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