transport
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(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" |
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Synonyms: carry |
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Related Words: bear, bring, bucket, cart, chariot, convey, displace, fly, haul, lug, move, pack, pipe in, port, return, shoulder, take, tote, tug |
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(verb) transport commercially |
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Synonyms: send, ship |
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Related Words: barge, despatch, dispatch, displace, forward, move, send off, send on |
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(verb) move something or somebody around; usually over long distances |
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Related Words: bus, carry over, displace, ferry, float, freight, lighter, move, pick up, pipe, raft, sledge, sluice, truck, wheel, wheel around |
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(noun) an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes |
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Related Words: active transport, diffusion, passive transport |
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(noun) something that serves as a means of transportation |
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Synonyms: conveyance |
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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 |
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(noun) the commercial enterprise of transporting goods and materials |
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Synonyms: shipping, transportation |
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Related Words: airlift, business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise, express, expressage, ferry, ferrying, freight, freightage, hauling, moving, navigation, relocation, trucking |
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(verb) send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message" |
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Synonyms: channel, channelize, transfer, transmit |
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Related Words: bring, convey, displace, fetch, get, move, project, propagate, release, send, send out, translate, turn |
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(verb) hold spellbound |
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Synonyms: delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, ravish |
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Related Words: delight, please |
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(noun) a mechanism that transport magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder |
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Synonyms: tape drive, tape transport |
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Related Words: mechanism |
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(noun) a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion: "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens |
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Synonyms: ecstasy, exaltation, rapture |
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Related Words: emotional state, spirit |
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