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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
transport
    n 1: something that serves as a means of transportation [syn:
         conveyance, transport]
    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 moving goods and materials [syn:
       transportation, shipping, transport]
    4: a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion;
       "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles
       Dickens [syn: ecstasy, rapture, transport,
       exaltation, raptus]
    5: a mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the
       read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder [syn: tape
       drive, tape transport, transport]
    6: the act of moving something from one location to another
       [syn: transportation, transport, transfer,
       transferral, conveyance]
    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:
       transport, carry]
    3: hold spellbound [syn: enchant, enrapture, transport,
       enthrall, ravish, enthral, delight] [ant:
       disenchant, disillusion]
    4: transport commercially [syn: transport, send, ship]
    5: send from one person or place to another; "transmit a
       message" [syn: transmit, transfer, transport,
       channel, channelize, channelise]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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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Thesaurus Results for transport:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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