transport

Definition

  • verb: to carry (someone or something) from one place to another
  • verb: to 'transfer' or convey from one place to another
  • usually plural
  • synonyms: banish, transportation, carriage

Examples

  • The news sent them into 'transports' of joy. [=the news made them extremely happy]

  • The illness was first 'transported' across the ocean by European explorers.

  • A van at the hotel 'transports' guests to and from the airport.

Movie quotes

  • (..) about ever leaving that island alive... so, three days before the Japanese took the island... your granddad asked a gunner on an Air Force transport... name of Winocki... a man he had never met before in his life... to deliver to his infant son... who he had never seen (..)
    1994 Pulp Fiction