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/trænspˈɔrt/ /trˈænspɔrt/ Listen

noun

Transport n.

1.

Transportation; carriage; conveyance. "The Romans... stipulated with the Carthaginians to furnish them with ships for transport and war."

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." "Say not, in transports of despair, That all your hopes are fled."

4.

A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.

verb

Transport v. t. (past & past part. transported; pres. part. transporting)

1.

To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.

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." "We shall then be transported with a nobler... wonder."

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"Transport" Quotes from Famous Books

... against the idea for him to take any immediate action. But the subject was revived. An alliance with Piedmont was popular in England, where the Government was in an Italian mood, having been made terribly angry by the King of Naples' prohibition of the sale of mules for transport purposes in the East. In December 1854 Cavour was formally invited to send a corps which would enter the English service and receive its pay from the British Exchequer. He would rather have sent it on these terms than not at all, but the scheme met with such unqualified condemnation from ...

— Cavour • Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco

... As I reached the transport dump a platoon met me led by a Subaltern of no mean dimensions. He was conversing with certain ones, seemingly officer's servants, who were drawing a hand-cart. He grew suddenly excited, then spoke to a Senior Officer, turned, ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 26, 1916 • Various

... / that sure thy bane 'twill be, Wilt thou not show the warrior / all civility. Wilt thou that he transport thee, / give all the boatman's due. He guardeth well the border / and ...

— The Nibelungenlied - Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original • trans. by George Henry Needler

... out, Amen, Lord, I'll go; send me, send me. I spent the greatest part of the night in ecstasies of joy, praising and adoring the Ancient of Days for his free and unbounded grace. After I had been so long in this transport and heavenly frame that my nature seemed to require sleep, I thought to close my eyes for a few moments; then the devil stepped in, and told me that if I went to sleep, I should lose it all, and when I should awake in the morning I would find it to be nothing but a fancy and ...

— The Varieties of Religious Experience • William James

... says of the Taosse: "They pretend that by means of certain exercises and meditations one shall regain his youth, and others shall attain to be Shien-sien, i.e. 'Terrestrial Beati,' in whose state every desire is gratified, whilst they have the power to transport themselves from one place to another, however distant, with speed and facility." Schott, on the same subject, says: "By Sian or Shin-sian are understood in the old Chinese conception, and particularly in that of the Tao-Kiao [or Taosse] ...

— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa

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