transport
To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.
Verb 2 meanings
To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.
“to transport goods; to transport troops”
To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.
“Music transports the soul.”
Noun 4 meanings
An act of transporting; conveyance.
“The transport of goods is not included in the price given on the website.”
The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.
A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.)
A tractor-trailer.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English transporten, a borrowing from Old French transporter (“carry or convey across”), from Latin trānsportāre (“to carry over, take across, carry, convey, remove, transport”), from trāns- (“across, over, to the farther side of”) + portō (“to bear, carry, convey, take”).
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TRANSPORT at a glance
TRANSPORT has 9 letters and scores 11 points in Scrabble (T 1 + R 1 + A 1 + N 1 + S 1 + P 3 + O 1 + R 1 + T 1) and 13 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #2,084 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
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