Definition of Transport

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Transport

To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.

To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish.

To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul.

Transportation; carriage; conveyance.

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.

Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.

A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.

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Transport Quotations

Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
Charles Dickens

I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.
Jackie Collins

We must accept the fact that transport and communications will bring the world in close relations and the youth of the world should have standards and ideals in common.
Juliette G. Low

The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?
Eric Idle

Modern techniques have torn down state frontiers, both economical and intellectual. The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states.
Christian Lous Lange

When gasoline and rubber are rationed, electric power and transport facilities are becoming increasingly scarce, and manpower shortages are developing, it is difficult for people to understand their increased use for other than the most vital needs of war.
William Lyon Mackenzie King

I have come to believe that there are infinite passageways out of the shadows, infinite vehicles to transport us into the light.
Martha Beck

The growth of means of transport has created a world market and an opportunity for division of labor embracing all the developed and most of the undeveloped states.
Christian Lous Lange

The real problem was not the troops; the real problem was that only the United States had the infrastructure to do the transport of troops with big planes, and then who will pay?
Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Transport Translations

transport in Afrikaans is vervoer
transport in Danish is transport
transport in Dutch is transporteren, overbrengen, voeren
transport in French is transportez, transportons, transportent, manipuler
transport in German is transportieren
transport in Italian is avanzamento, trasporto, trasportare
transport in Portuguese is transporte
transport in Spanish is trasporte, conducta, transportar, conduccion
transport in Swedish is transportera, forsla, transport

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