Transport /(?)/
Trans·port
Transport
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Transported; p. pr. & vb. n. Transporting
- To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.
- To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish.
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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.
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Transportation; carriage; conveyance.
The Romans . . . stipulated with the Carthaginians to furnish them with ships for transport and war.
- 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.
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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.
- A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.