transport

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From Middle English, from Old French transporter (carry or convey across), from Latin transporto, from trans- (across) + porto (to carry)

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Verb
Noun
  • (UK) enPR: trănz'pô(r)t, tränz'pô(r)t, IPA: /ˈtɹænz.pɔː(ɹ)t/, /ˈtɹɑːnz.pɔː(ɹ)t/, SAMPA: /"tr{nz.pO:(r)t/, /"trA:nz.pO:(r)t/
  • (US) enPR: trănz'pôrt, IPA: /ˈtɹænz.pɔɹt/, SAMPA: /"tr{nz.pOrt/
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Infinitive
to transport

Third person singular
transports

Simple past
transported

Past participle
transported

Present participle
transporting

to transport (third-person singular simple present transports, present participle transporting, simple past and past participle transported)

  1. To change the location or place of.
  2. (historical) To deport to a penal colony.
  3. (figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.

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Singular
transport

Plural
countable and uncountable; plural transports

transport (countable and uncountable; plural transports)

  1. An act of transporting; conveyance.
  2. The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.
  3. A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.)
  4. (Canadian) A tractor-trailer.
  5. The system of transporting passengers etc in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.
  6. A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.
  7. (historical) A deported convict.

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system of transporting people

See public transport
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transport m. (plural transports)

  1. transport

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trànsport m. (Cyrillic spelling тра̀нспорт)

  1. transport, conveyance
  2. transport (vehicle)

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