Category:Transport

Trans*port", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Transported; p. pr. & vb. n. Transporting.] Etym: [f. transporter, l. transportare; trans across + Portare to carry. See port bearing, demeanor.]

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

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. Milton. We shall then be transported with a nobler. . . wonder. South.

Transport Trans"port, n. Etym: [f. See transport, v.]

1. Transportation; carriage; conveyance. The romans. . . stipulated with the carthaginians to furnish them With ships for transport and war. Arbuthnot.

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. Pope. Say not, in transports of despair, that all your hopes are fled. Doddridge.

4. A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.