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Noun transport has 5 senses
  1. conveyance, transport - something that serves as a means of transportation
    --1 is a kind of instrumentality, instrumentation
    --1 has particulars:
     dolly; dolly; horsebox; litter; mail; public transport; roll-on roll-off; shipping, cargo ships, merchant marine, merchant vessels; sidecar; ski tow, ski lift, lift; telpher, telfer; trailer; tramway, tram, aerial tramway, cable tramway, ropeway; vehicle
    Derived forms: verb transport5, verb transport1
  2. transport - an exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes
    --2 is a kind of     diffusion
    --2 has particulars: active transport; passive transport
  3. transportation, shipping, transport - the commercial enterprise of transporting goods and materials
    --3 is a kind of commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business
    --3 is a part of commerce, commercialism, mercantilism
    --3 has particulars:
     air transportation, air transport; navigation; hauling, trucking, truckage; freight, freightage; express, expressage; ferry, ferrying
    Derived forms: verb transport5, verb transport4
  4. ecstasy, rapture, transport, exaltation, raptus - a state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion; "listening to sweet music in a perfect rapture"- Charles Dickens
    --4 is a kind of emotional state, spirit
    Derived form: verb transport3
  5. tape drive, tape transport, transport - a mechanism that transport magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder
    --5 is a kind of mechanism
    --5 is a part of tape deck; tape recorder, tape machine
,Verb transport has 5 senses
  1. transport - move something or somebody around; usually over long distances
    --1 is one way to     move, displace
    Derived forms: noun transport1, noun transportation1, noun transporter1, noun transporter2
    Sample sentence:
    They transport the parcel to their parents
  2. transport, carry - 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"
    --2 is one way to move, displace
    Derived forms: noun transportation2, noun transporter1, noun transporter3
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Something ----s somebody
    Something ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody PP
    Somebody ----s something PP
  3. enchant, enrapture, transport, enthrall, ravish, enthral, delight - hold spellbound
    --3 is one way to please, delight
    Derived form: noun transport4
    Sample sentences:
    The good news will transport her
    The performance is likely to transport Sue
  4. transport, send, ship - transport commercially
    --4 is one way to move, displace
    Derived forms: noun transport3, noun transportation5
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
    Somebody ----s somebody PP
    Somebody ----s something PP
  5. transmit, transfer, transport, channel, channelize, channelise - send from one person or place to another; "transmit a message"
    --5 is one way to move, displace
    Derived forms: noun transport1, noun transport3
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Something ----s something
    Somebody ----s something PP
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