transport

1. (verb) 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
Related Words: bear, bring, bucket, cart, chariot, convey, displace, fly, haul, lug, move, pack, pipe in, port, return, shoulder, take, tote, tug

2. (verb) transport commercially
Synonyms: send, ship
Related Words: barge, despatch, dispatch, displace, forward, move, send off, send on

3. (verb) move something or somebody around; usually over long distances
Related Words: bus, carry over, displace, ferry, float, freight, lighter, move, pick up, pipe, raft, sledge, sluice, truck, wheel, wheel around

4. (noun) an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes
Related Words: active transport, diffusion, passive transport

5. (noun) something that serves as a means of transportation
Synonyms: conveyance
Related Words: aerial tramway, cable tramway, cargo ships, dolly, horsebox, instrumentality, instrumentation, lift, litter, mail, merchant marine, merchant vessels, public transport, ropeway, shipping, sidecar, ski lift, ski tow, telfer, telpher, trailer, tram, tramway, vehicle

6. (noun) the commercial enterprise of transporting goods and materials
Synonyms: shipping, transportation
Related Words: airlift, business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise, express, expressage, ferry, ferrying, freight, freightage, hauling, moving, navigation, relocation, trucking

7. (verb) send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message"
Synonyms: channel, channelize, transfer, transmit
Related Words: bring, convey, displace, fetch, get, move, project, propagate, release, send, send out, translate, turn

8. (verb) hold spellbound
Synonyms: delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, ravish
Related Words: delight, please

9. (noun) a mechanism that transport magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder
Synonyms: tape drive, tape transport
Related Words: mechanism

10. (noun) a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion: "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens
Synonyms: ecstasy, exaltation, rapture
Related Words: emotional state, spirit



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