Transport /(?)/

Trans·port

Transport

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Transported; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.

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.
    — Doddridge.
  4. A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.