Definition of TRANSPORT. Meaning of TRANSPORT. Synonyms of TRANSPORT

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Definition of TRANSPORT

Transport
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.
Transport
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.

Meaning of TRANSPORT from wikipedia

- Transport (in British English) or transportation (in American English) is the intentional movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to...
- Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel...
- A transport protein (variously referred to as a transmembrane pump, transporter, escort protein, acid transport protein, cation transport protein, or...
- Public transport (also known as public transportation, public transit, m**** transit, or simply transit) is a system of transport for p****engers by group...
- Multimodal transport (also known as combined transport) is the transportation of goods under a single contract, but performed with at least two different...
- Sustainable transport is transportation sustainable in terms of their social and environmental impacts. Components for evaluating sustainability include...
- Look up transports in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Transports may refer to: Military transport aircraft a Ministry of Transport Dow Jones Transportation...
- Transport Layer Security (TLS) is a cryptographic protocol designed to provide communications security over a computer network, such as the Internet....
- An electron transport chain (ETC) is a series of protein complexes and other molecules which transfer electrons from electron donors to electron acceptors...
- In computer networking, the transport layer is a conceptual division of methods in the layered architecture of protocols in the network stack in the Internet...