Transport — Defs

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

imp. & p. p. Transported; p. pr. & vb. n. Transporting

1.
To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey; as, to transport goods; to transport troops.
2.
To carry, or cause to be carried, into banishment, as a criminal; to banish.
3.
To carry away with vehement emotion, as joy, sorrow, complacency, anger, etc.; to ravish with pleasure or ecstasy; as, music transports the soul.
“[They] laugh as if transported with some fit Of passion.” — Milton.

“We shall then be transported with a nobler . . . wonder.” — South.

02 n. Transportation; carriage; conveyance.

1.
Transportation; carriage; conveyance.
“The Romans . . . stipulated with the Carthaginians to furnish them with ships for transport and war.” — Arbuthnot.
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. Also: transport ship, transport vessel
3.
Vehement emotion; passion; ecstasy; rapture.
“With transport views the airy rule his own, And swells on an imaginary throne.” — Pope.

“Say not, in transports of despair, That all your hopes are fled.” — Doddridge.
4.
A convict transported, or sentenced to exile.