"transport" - meanings, definitions, synonyms, thesaurus and antonyms

\Trans*port"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Transported}; p.
pr. & vb. n. {Transporting}.] [F. transporter, L.
transportare; trans across + portare to carry. See {Port}
bearing, demeanor.]
1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to
   convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.
   --Hakluyt.

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.                              --Milton.

         We shall then be transported with a nobler . . .
         wonder.                               --South.

\Trans"port\, n. [F. See {Transport}, v.]
1. Transportation; carriage; conveyance.

         The Romans . . . stipulated with the Carthaginians
         to furnish them with ships for transport and war.
                                               --Arbuthnot.

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.        --Pope.

         Say not, in transports of despair, That all your
         hopes are fled.                       --Doddridge.

4. A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.