TRANSPORT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does transport mean? 

• TRANSPORT (noun)
  The noun TRANSPORT has 6 senses:

1. something that serves as a means of transportation

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 moving goods and materials

4. a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion

5. a mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder

6. the act of moving something from one location to another

  Familiarity information: TRANSPORT used as a noun is common.

• TRANSPORT (verb)
  The verb TRANSPORT has 5 senses:

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

3. hold spellbound

4. transport commercially

5. send from one person or place to another

  Familiarity information: TRANSPORT used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRANSPORT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Something that serves as a means of transportation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

conveyance; transport

Hypernyms ("transport" is a kind of...):

instrumentality; instrumentation (an artifact (or system of artifacts) that is instrumental in accomplishing some end)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transport"):

horsebox (a conveyance (railroad car or trailer) for transporting racehorses)

vehicle (a conveyance that transports people or objects)

aerial tramway; cable tramway; ropeway; tram; tramway (a conveyance that transports passengers or freight in carriers suspended from cables and supported by a series of towers)

trailer (a large transport conveyance designed to be pulled by a truck or tractor)

telfer; telpher (one of the conveyances (or cars) in a telpherage)

lift; ski lift; ski tow (a powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill)

sidecar (conveyance consisting of a small carrier attached to the side of a motorcycle)

cargo ships; merchant marine; merchant vessels; shipping (conveyance provided by the ships belonging to one country or industry)

roll-on roll-off (a method of transport (as a ferry or train or plane) that vehicles roll onto at the beginning and roll off of at the destination)

public transport (conveyance for passengers or mail or freight)

mail (a conveyance that transports the letters and packages that are conveyed by the postal system)

litter (conveyance consisting of a chair or bed carried on two poles by bearers)

dolly (conveyance consisting of a wheeled support on which a camera can be mounted)

dolly (conveyance consisting of a wheeled platform for moving heavy objects)

Derivation:

transport (send from one person or place to another)

transport (move something or somebody around; usually over long distances)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("transport" is a kind of...):

diffusion ((physics) the process in which there is movement of a substance from an area of high concentration of that substance to an area of lower concentration)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transport"):

active transport (transport of a substance (as a protein or drug) across a cell membrane against the concentration gradient; requires an expenditure of energy)

passive transport (transport of a substance across a cell membrane by diffusion; expenditure of energy is not required)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

shipping; transport; transportation

Hypernyms ("transport" is a kind of...):

business; business enterprise; commercial enterprise (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects)

Domain member category:

on-line; online (on a regular route of a railroad or bus or airline system)

off-line (not on a regular route of a transportation system)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transport"):

navigation (ship traffic)

ferry; ferrying (transport by boat or aircraft)

express; expressage (rapid transport of goods)

freight; freightage (transporting goods commercially at rates cheaper than express rates)

hauling; truckage; trucking (the activity of transporting goods by truck)

air transport; air transportation (transportation by air)

Holonyms ("transport" is a part of...):

commerce; commercialism; mercantilism (transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services))

Derivation:

transport (send from one person or place to another)

transport (transport commercially)

Sense 4

Meaning:

A state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

ecstasy; exaltation; rapture; raptus; transport

Context example:

listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture

Hypernyms ("transport" is a kind of...):

emotional state; spirit (the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection))

Derivation:

transport (hold spellbound)

Sense 5

Meaning:

A mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

tape drive; tape transport; transport

Hypernyms ("transport" is a kind of...):

mechanism (device consisting of a piece of machinery; has moving parts that perform some function)

Holonyms ("transport" is a part of...):

tape deck (electronic equipment for making or playing magnetic tapes (but without amplifiers or speakers); a component in an audio system)

tape machine; tape recorder (a magnetic recorder using magnetic tape)

Sense 6

Meaning:

The act of moving something from one location to another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

conveyance; transfer; transferral; transport; transportation

Hypernyms ("transport" is a kind of...):

movement (the act of changing the location of something)

Meronyms (parts of "transport"):

pickup (the act of taking aboard passengers or freight)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "transport"):

airlift; lift (transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable))

connection; connexion (shifting from one form of transportation to another)

bringing; delivery (the act of delivering or distributing something (as goods or mail))

drive (the act of driving a herd of animals overland)

carry (the act of carrying something)

lighterage (the transportation of goods on a lighter)

relocation; resettlement (the transportation of people (as a family or colony) to a new settlement (as after an upheaval of some kind))

teleportation (a hypothetical mode of instantaneous transportation; matter is dematerialized at one place and recreated at another)

transshipment (the transfer from one conveyance to another for shipment)

Derivation:

transport (move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body)

• TRANSPORT (verb)

Conjugation:

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move something or somebody around; usually over long distances

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "transport" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "transport"):

teleport (transport by dematerializing at one point and assembling at another)

advect (convey by horizontal mass movement of a fluid)

carry over (transport from one place or state to another)

wheel; wheel around (wheel somebody or something)

pick up (give a passenger or a hitchhiker a lift)

lighter (transport in a flatbottom boat)

sledge (transport in a sleigh)

rail (convey (goods etc.) by rails)

truck (convey (goods etc.) by truck)

freight (transport commercially as cargo)

pipe (transport by pipeline)

bus (send or move around by bus)

raft (transport on a raft)

wheelbarrow (transport in a wheelbarrow)

ferry (transport by ferry)

float (set afloat)

sluice (transport in or send down a sluice)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Sentence example:

They transport the parcel to their parents

Derivation:

transport (something that serves as a means of transportation)

transportation (a facility consisting of the means and equipment necessary for the movement of passengers or goods)

transporter (a crane for moving material with dispatch as in loading and unloading ships)

transporter (a long truck for carrying motor vehicles)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

carry; transport

Context example:

These pipes carry waste water into the river

Hypernyms (to "transport" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Verb group:

carry (pass on a communication)

carry (propel or give impetus to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "transport"):

shoulder (carry a burden, either real or metaphoric)

bring; convey; take (take something or somebody with oneself somewhere)

chariot (transport in a chariot)

drive; motor (travel or be transported in a vehicle)

lug; tote; tug (carry with difficulty)

haul (transport in a vehicle)

fly (transport by aeroplane)

cart (transport something in a cart)

pack (carry, as on one's back)

porter (carry luggage or supplies)

port (carry, bear, convey, or bring)

pipe in (transport to a destination through pipes)

return (make a return)

bucket (carry in a bucket)

bear (move while holding up or supporting)

port (carry or hold with both hands diagonally across the body, especially of weapons)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

transportation (the act of moving something from one location to another)

transporter (a long truck for carrying motor vehicles)

transporter (a moving belt that transports objects (as in a factory))

transport (the act of moving something from one location to another)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Hold spellbound

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Synonyms:

delight; enchant; enrapture; enthral; enthrall; ravish; transport

Hypernyms (to "transport" is one way to...):

delight; please (give pleasure to or be pleasing to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence examples:

The good news will transport her
The performance is likely to transport Sue

Derivation:

transport (a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Transport commercially

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

send; ship; transport

Hypernyms (to "transport" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "transport"):

forward; send on (send or ship onward from an intermediate post or station in transit)

railroad (transport by railroad)

barge (transport by barge on a body of water)

despatch; dispatch; send off (send away towards a designated goal)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

transport; transportation (the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Send from one person or place to another

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

channel; channelise; channelize; transfer; transmit; transport

Context example:

transmit a message

Hypernyms (to "transport" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "transport"):

release; turn (let (something) fall or spill from a container)

send; send out (to cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place)

translate (bring to a certain spiritual state)

project (transfer (ideas or principles) from one domain into another)

propagate (transmit)

bring; convey; fetch; get (go or come after and bring or take back)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Derivation:

transport (the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials)

transport (something that serves as a means of transportation)

 Context examples 

It’s also difficult to get the molecules into cells – they need to be transported by another vehicle acting as a delivery agent.

(Nanoparticles used to transport anti-cancer agent to cells, University of Cambridge)

I was transported in thought to the scenes of childhood: I dreamt I lay in the red-room at Gateshead; that the night was dark, and my mind impressed with strange fears.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

This allele, which encodes multidrug resistance-associated protein 1, is involved in multispecific organic anion transport.

(ABCC1 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

Julia would be glad to see her, and would not call her a transported page; Julia never had called her anything of the sort.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"How trees take up, transport and evaporate water can influence societally important extreme events, like severe droughts, that affect people and entire cities."

(How trees affect the weather, National Science Foundation)

This allele, which encodes metallothionein-1G protein, plays a role in both binding and transport of trace metals.

(MT1G wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

He felt as if he had been transported to Fairy-land and enjoyed a happiness seldom tasted by man.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Her eldest daughter endeavoured to give some relief to the violence of these transports, by leading her thoughts to the obligations which Mr. Gardiner's behaviour laid them all under.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Oh, cried Marianne, with what transporting sensation have I formerly seen them fall!

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Oh! that I could transport you for a short time into our circle in town, that you might understand how your power over Henry is thought of there!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)