Transport \Trans"port\, n. [F. See Transport, v.]
   1. Transportation; carriage; conveyance.
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            The Romans . . . stipulated with the Carthaginians
            to furnish them with ships for transport and war.
                                                  --Arbuthnot.
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   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.
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   3. Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.
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            With transport views the airy rule his own,
            And swells on an imaginary throne.    --Pope.
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            Say not, in transports of despair,
            That all your hopes are fled.         --Doddridge.
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   4. A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.
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	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.
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   3. To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow,
      complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or
      ecstasy; as, music transports the soul.
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            [They] laugh as if transported with some fit
            Of passion.                           --Milton.
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            We shall then be transported with a nobler . . .
            wonder.                               --South.
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	transport
    n 1: something that serves as a means of transportation [syn:
         conveyance, transport]
    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 [syn:
       transportation, shipping, transport]
    4: a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion;
       "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles
       Dickens [syn: ecstasy, rapture, transport,
       exaltation, raptus]
    5: a mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the
       read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder [syn: tape
       drive, tape transport, transport]
    6: the act of moving something from one location to another
       [syn: transportation, transport, transfer,
       transferral, conveyance]
    v 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" [syn:
       transport, carry]
    3: hold spellbound [syn: enchant, enrapture, transport,
       enthrall, ravish, enthral, delight] [ant:
       disenchant, disillusion]
    4: transport commercially [syn: transport, send, ship]
    5: send from one person or place to another; "transmit a
       message" [syn: transmit, transfer, transport,
       channel, channelize, channelise]

	

	195 Moby Thesaurus words for "transport":
   Elysium, abandon, agitate, air express, airfreight, airlift, ardor,
   asportation, ban, banish, bear, bearing, beatification, beatitude,
   becharm, beguile, bewitch, bewitchment, blackball, blessedness,
   bliss, blissfulness, bring, buck, captivate, carriage, carrier,
   carry, carry away, carrying, cartage, cast a spell, cast out,
   charm, cheer, cheerfulness, cloud nine, conduct, convey,
   conveyance, craze, cut, delectate, delectation, delight, delirium,
   deliver, deport, disfellowship, displace, drayage, ecstasy,
   ecstatics, elation, electrify, elevate, enchant, enchantment,
   enrapture, enravish, enthrall, enthusiasm, entrance, euphoria,
   exaltation, excite, exclude, excommunicate, exhilaration, exile,
   expatriate, expel, expressage, extradite, exuberance, exultation,
   fascinate, felicity, ferriage, ferry, fervor, fetch, fire and fury,
   fly, forward, freak out, freight, freightage, frenzy, fugitate,
   furor, furore, fury, gaiety, get, gladness, glee, happiness, haul,
   haulage, hauling, heaven, high spirits, hump, hypnotize, hysteria,
   imparadise, infatuate, inflame, intoxication, intrigue, joy,
   joyance, joyfulness, knock dead, knock out, lift, lighterage, lug,
   lugging, madness, manhandle, mesmerize, move, moving, orgasm, orgy,
   ostracize, outlaw, overhappiness, overjoyfulness, pack, packing,
   paradise, passion, portage, porterage, proscribe, provoke, quicken,
   rage, railway express, rapture, ravish, ravishment, relegate,
   remove, rhapsody, rusticate, send, send away, send down,
   send to Coventry, seventh heaven, ship, shipment, shipping, slay,
   snub, spell, spellbind, spurn, stimulate, stir up, sunshine, take,
   tearing passion, telpherage, thrill, thrust out, tickle,
   tickle pink, titillate, tote, toting, towering rage, trance,
   transfer, transferral, transit, transmit, transportation,
   transporting, transshipment, truckage, unalloyed happiness, uplift,
   vamp, waft, waftage, wagonage, whisk, wing, witch, wow