transport

From Middle English transporten, a borrowing from Old French transporter (“carry or convey across”), from Latin trānsportō, from trans (“across”) + porto (“to carry”).

Verb

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: trănzpôrtʹ, tränzpôrtʹ, IPA^(key): /tɹænzˈpɔːt/, /tɹɑːnˈspɔːt/
• (General American) enPR: trănzpôrtʹ, IPA^(key): /tɹænzˈpɔɹt/

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• Hyphenation: trans‧port

Noun

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: trănzʹpôrt, tränzʹpôrt, IPA^(key): /ˈtɹænz.pɔːt/, /ˈtɹɑːnspɔːt/
• (General American) enPR: trănzʹpôrt, IPA^(key): /ˈtɹænz.pɔɹt/

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• Hyphenation: trans‧port

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

1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.

   to transport goods; to transport troops

2. (historical) To deport to a penal colony.
3. (figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.

   Music transports the soul.

   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     [They] laugh as if transported with some fit / Of passion.

   • (Can we date this quote?) South

     We shall then be transported with a nobler […] wonder.

• (carry or bear from one place to another): convey, ferry, move, relocate, shift, ship
• (historical: deport to a penal colony): banish, deport, exile, expatriate, extradite
• (move someone to strong emotion): carry away, enrapture

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. (Canada) 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.

• (act of transporting): conveyance, ferrying, moving, relocation, shifting, shipping
• (state of being transported by emotion): rapture
• ((military) vehicle used to transport troops):
• (vehicle used to transport passengers, mail or freight):
• (system of transporting people): See public transport
• (device that moves recording tape across the heads of a recorder):
• (historical: deported convict): deportee, exile, expatriate

• means of transport

• antitransport
• transportability
• transportable
• transportage
• transportation
• transporter
• transportive

transport m (plural transports)

1. transport

• transportar

From Old French transporter (“carry or convey across”), from Latin transporto, from trans (“across”) + porto (“to carry”).

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• Hyphenation: trans‧port

transport n (plural transporten, diminutive transportje n)

1. transport

• vervoer

• IPA^(key): /tʁɑ̃s.pɔʁ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔʁ
• Homophone: transports

transport m (plural transports)

1. transport

• “transport” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Medieval Latin transportus, from Latin transportare

transport m (definite singular transporten, indefinite plural transporter, definite plural transportene)

1. transport, transportation

• “transport” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Medieval Latin transportus, from Latin transportare

transport m (definite singular transporten, indefinite plural transportar, definite plural transportane)

1. transport, transportation

• “transport” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

trànsport m (Cyrillic spelling тра̀нспорт)

1. transport, conveyance
2. transport (vehicle)

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transport c

1. a transport, something to be moved
2. a transport, a preliminary sum to be carried to the next page
3. a transport, promotion to a new job or task

• transportera

• befordran
• export
• import
• kommunikation
• minnessiffra
• spedition
• trafik
• åkeri