transporting
UStrans-PORT-ing/tɹænsˈpɔɹtɪŋ/UKtrans-PAWT-ing/tɹænsˈpɔːtɪŋ/
- 1Present participle and gerund of transport. Use this form when the moving is happening now or named as an activity.
They are transporting the crates to the new warehouse today.
Transporting heavy loads needs a strong, reliable truck.
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- 2The punishment of sending a criminal away to a faraway land for a set number of years.
The court sentenced the thief to transporting across the sea for seven years.
Many families were torn apart by the transporting of a father to a distant colony.
Similartransportation, deportation, banishment, exile
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transporting is a form of transport
transport, verb: To move people or things from one place to another. Full entry
- Forms
- transporttransports he/she/ittransporting -ing formtransported past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- transport → transporting: add -ing
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Origins
Meaning 1
It comes from the word "transport" plus the ending "-ing".
Meaning 2
It comes from the Middle English word "transportyng", made from "transport" plus "-ing".