- Transporting
- Transport 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.
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2. To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish. [1913 Webster]
3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul. [1913 Webster]
[They] laugh as if transported with some fit Of passion. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
We shall then be transported with a nobler . . . wonder. --South. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
