Thesaurus: transport

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1. v. t. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.
2. v. t. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish.
3. v. t. To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul.
4. v. Transportation; carriage; conveyance.
5. v. 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.
6. v. Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.
7. v. A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.
8. n. something that serves as a means of transportation
9. n. an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes
10. n. the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials
11. n. a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion
12. n. a mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder