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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Transport \Trans*port"\, verb (used with an object) [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Transport \Trans"port\, noun [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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
transport
noun
1: something that serves as a means of transportation [syn: {conveyance}]
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 transporting goods and materials [syn: {transportation}, {shipping}]
4: a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion; "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens [syn: {ecstasy}, {rapture}, {exaltation}, {raptus}]
5: a mechanism that transport magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder [syn: {tape drive}, {tape transport}]
verb
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: {carry}]
3: hold spellbound [syn: {enchant}, {enrapture}, {enthrall}, {ravish}, {enthral}, {delight}] [ant: {disenchant}]
4: transport commercially [syn: {send}, {ship}]
5: send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message" [syn: {transmit}, {transfer}, {channel}, {channelize}, {channelise}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
195 Moby Thesaurus words for "transport": Elysium, abandon, agitate, air express, airfreight, airlift, ardor, asportation, ban, banish, bear, bearing, beatification, beatitude, becharm, beguile, bewitch, bewitchment, blackball, blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, bring, buck, captivate, carriage, carrier, carry, carry away, carrying, cartage, cast a spell, cast out, charm, cheer, cheerfulness, cloud nine, conduct, convey, conveyance, craze, cut, delectate, delectation, delight, delirium, deliver, deport, disfellowship, displace, drayage, ecstasy, ecstatics, elation, electrify, elevate, enchant, enchantment, enrapture, enravish, enthrall, enthusiasm, entrance, euphoria, exaltation, excite, exclude, excommunicate, exhilaration, exile, expatriate, expel, expressage, extradite, exuberance, exultation, fascinate, felicity, ferriage, ferry, fervor, fetch, fire and fury, fly, forward, freak out, freight, freightage, frenzy, fugitate, furor, furore, fury, gaiety, get, gladness, glee, happiness, haul, haulage, hauling, heaven, high spirits, hump, hypnotize, hysteria, imparadise, infatuate, inflame, intoxication, intrigue, joy, joyance, joyfulness, knock dead, knock out, lift, lighterage, lug, lugging, madness, manhandle, mesmerize, move, moving, orgasm, orgy, ostracize, outlaw, overhappiness, overjoyfulness, pack, packing, paradise, passion, portage, porterage, proscribe, provoke, quicken, rage, railway express, rapture, ravish, ravishment, relegate, remove, rhapsody, rusticate, send, send away, send down, send to Coventry, seventh heaven, ship, shipment, shipping, slay, snub, spell, spellbind, spurn, stimulate, stir up, sunshine, take, tearing passion, telpherage, thrill, thrust out, tickle, tickle pink, titillate, tote, toting, towering rage, trance, transfer, transferral, transit, transmit, transportation, transporting, transshipment, truckage, unalloyed happiness, uplift, vamp, waft, waftage, wagonage, whisk, wing, witch, wow
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