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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 transport your camping gear"
   - carry
    
3. Hold spellbound
   - enchant, enrapture, enthrall [US], ravish, enthral [Brit, Cdn], delight
    
4. Transport commercially
   - send, ship
    
5. Send from one person or place to another
   "transport a message"
   - transmit, transfer, channel, channelize, channelise [Brit]

1. Something that serves as a means of transportation
   - conveyance
    
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
   - transportation, shipping
    
4. A state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion
   "listening to sweet music in a perfect transport"
   - ecstasy, rapture, exaltation, raptus
    
5. A mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder
   - tape drive, tape transport
    
6. The act of moving something from one location to another
   - transportation, transfer, transferral, conveyance

Derived forms: transports, transporting, transported

See also: transportation, transporter

Type of: business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise, delight, diffusion, displace, emotional state, instrumentality, instrumentation, mechanism, move, movement, please, spirit

Part of: commerce, commercialism, mercantilism, tape deck, tape machine, tape recorder

Encyclopedia: Transport