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Noun transport has 5 senses
- conveyance, transport - something that serves as a means of transportation
--1 is a kind of instrumentality, instrumentation
--1 has particulars: | | dolly; dolly; horsebox; litter; mail; public transport; roll-on roll-off; shipping, cargo ships, merchant marine, merchant vessels; sidecar; ski tow, ski lift, lift; telpher, telfer; trailer; tramway, tram, aerial tramway, cable tramway, ropeway; vehicle |
- transport - an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes
--2 is a kind of diffusion
--2 has particulars: active transport; passive transport
- transportation, shipping, transport - the commercial enterprise of transporting goods and materials
--3 is a kind of commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business
--3 is a part of commerce, commercialism, mercantilism
--3 has particulars:
- ecstasy, rapture, transport, exaltation, raptus - a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion; "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens
--4 is a kind of emotional state, spirit
- tape drive, tape transport, transport - a mechanism that transport magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder
--5 is a kind of mechanism
--5 is a part of tape deck; tape recorder, tape machine
Verb transport has 5 senses
- transport - move something or somebody around; usually over long distances
--1 is one way to move, displace
Sample sentence:
They transport the parcel to their parents
- transport, carry - move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body; "You must carry your camping gear"; "carry the suitcases to the car"; "This train is carrying nuclear waste"; "These pipes carry waste water into the river"
--2 is one way to move, displace
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
- enchant, enrapture, transport, enthrall, ravish, enthral, delight - hold spellbound
--3 is one way to please, delight
Sample sentences:
The good news will transport her
The performance is likely to transport Sue
- transport, send, ship - transport commercially
--4 is one way to move, displace
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Somebody ----s something PP
- transmit, transfer, transport, channel, channelize, channelise - send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message"
--5 is one way to move, displace
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
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