transport meaning and definition

TRANSPORT noun

Definition of transport (noun)

1. something that serves as a means of transportation
   • synonyms: conveyance
2. an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes
3. the commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials
   • synonyms: shipping, transportation
4. a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion
   • "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens
   • synonyms: ecstasy, exaltation, rapture, raptus
5. a mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder
   • synonyms: tape drive, tape transport
6. the act of moving something from one location to another
   • synonyms: conveyance, transfer, transferral, transportation

TRANSPORT verb

Definition of transport (verb)

1. move something or somebody around; usually over long distances
2. 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"
   • synonyms: carry
3. hold spellbound
   • synonyms: delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, ravish
   • antonym: disenchant
4. transport commercially
   • synonyms: send, ship
5. send from one person or place to another
   • "transmit a message"
   • synonyms: channel, channelise, channelize, transfer, transmit