# transport

Pronunciation: US say "trans-PORT" /tɹænsˈpɔɹt/; UK say "trans-PAWT" /tɹænsˈpɔːt/

## Verb

1. To carry or convey people or goods from one place to another.
   - Simple: To move people or things from one place to another.
   - _Pipelines transport crude oil hundreds of miles to coastal refineries._
   - _The company transports fragile artwork in climate-controlled vehicles._
5. Of a story, sound, smell, or the like: to give someone the feeling of being taken to another place, time, or situation.
   - Simple: To make someone feel taken to another place, time, or situation, for example by a song or a smell.
   - _The film's opening scenes transport viewers to the jazz clubs of 1920s Harlem._
   - _A few notes of that old song and she was transported to the summer she turned sixteen._
6. To move someone to powerful emotion, carrying them away from ordinary awareness.
   - Simple: To fill someone with strong feeling, as if carrying their mind away.
   - _By the final movement, the music had transported the listeners so completely that no one dared to cough._
   - _Even a few bars of that old hymn could transport her with a joy she could not explain._
9. To send a convicted criminal overseas to a penal colony as punishment.
   - Simple: To send a convicted criminal far away to a prison settlement as punishment.
   - _The magistrate threatened to transport anyone caught poaching on the estate._
   - _Authorities chose to transport hundreds of convicts rather than hang them._

## Noun

Pronunciation: US say "TRANS-port" /ˈtɹænspɔɹt/; UK say "TRANS-pawt" /ˈtɹænspɔːt/

2. The act or process of carrying something from one place to another; conveyance.
   - Simple: The act of moving people or things from one place to another.
   - _The transport of fragile equipment requires careful packing and steady handling._
   - _Delays in transport pushed the delivery back by a week._
3. The system of vehicles and services used to move passengers around a particular region.
   - Simple: The buses, trains, and other vehicles people use to get around an area.
   - _Investment in transport linked the suburbs to the city center for the first time._
   - _Heavy snowfall brought transport across the whole region to a standstill._
4. A ship, aircraft, or other vehicle used to carry passengers, mail, freight, or troops.
   - Simple: A ship, plane, or truck that carries people or goods.
   - _The naval transport ferried two hundred troops across the strait._
   - _Each transport in the convoy carried tons of supplies to the front._
7. A state of being overwhelmed by powerful emotion; rapture.
   - Simple: A feeling of very strong joy or emotion that takes over completely.
   - _In a transport of delight, she danced around the empty room._
   - _The pilgrims fell into a transport of religious feeling at the shrine._
8. A large freight truck consisting of a tractor unit pulling a separate trailer. *(Canada)*
   - Simple: A large truck with a separate trailer for hauling freight.
   - _A loaded transport blocked two lanes after its trailer jackknifed._
   - _The depot dispatched another transport to haul lumber north._
10. A convict who has been deported to a penal colony.
   - Simple: A criminal who was sent away to a prison colony.
   - _Everyone in the town knew that the blacksmith had arrived as a transport, sentenced to fourteen years for stealing a horse._
   - _Many free settlers would not let their daughters marry a former transport, however well he had done for himself._

## Other meanings

- (noun) The mechanism in a tape recorder or video recorder that moves the recording tape across the read/write heads.

## Origin

From Middle English transporten, borrowed from Old French transporter ("to carry or convey across"), from Latin trānsportō, made up of trans ("across") and porto ("to carry").

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/transport (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).