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

  • (..) Get you asses up here, you lazy bastards! The war had finally found us. Full stop! Pleasant, get on that light. A transport carrying men had been split by a torpedo. We were first to arrive at the scene. Stop the engine! Full stop! (..)
    2008 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button