transport : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: transport	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for transport
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
transport n something that serves as a means of transportation [syn: conveyance, transport] an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials Synonym(s): transportation, shipping, transport a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion; "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens Synonym(s): ecstasy, rapture, transport, exaltation, raptus a mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder Synonym(s): tape drive, tape transport, transport the act of moving something from one location to another Synonym(s): transportation, transport, transfer, transferral, conveyance v move something or somebody around; usually over long distances 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" Synonym(s): transport, carry hold spellbound Synonym(s): enchant, enrapture, transport, enthrall, ravish, enthral, delight Antonym(s): disenchant, disillusion transport commercially Synonym(s): transport, send, ship send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message" Synonym(s): transmit, transfer, transport, channel, channelize, channelise
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 \Transport"\, 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.