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transportable

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trans·port  (trns-pôrt, -prt)
tr.v. trans·port·ed, trans·port·ing, trans·ports
1. To carry from one place to another; convey. See Synonyms at convey.
2. To move to strong emotion; carry away; enrapture. See Synonyms at enrapture.
3. To send abroad to a penal colony; deport. See Synonyms at banish.
n. (trnspôrt, -prt)
1. The act of transporting; conveyance.
2. The condition of being transported by emotion; rapture.
3. A ship or aircraft used to transport troops or military equipment.
4. A vehicle, such as an aircraft, used to transport passengers, mail, or freight.
5.
a. The system of transporting passengers or goods in a particular country or area.
b. The vehicles, such as buses and trains, used in such a system.
6. A device that moves magnetic tape beyond the recording head, as of a tape recorder.
7. A deported convict.

[Middle English transporten, from Old French transporter, from Latin trnsportre : trns-, trans- + portre, to carry; see per-2 in Indo-European roots.]

trans·porta·bili·ty n.
trans·porta·ble adj.
trans·porter n.
trans·portive adj.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.transportabletransportable - capable of being moved or conveyed from one place to another
mobile - moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place); "a mobile missile system"; "the tongue is...the most mobile articulator"
Translations
transportable [trænsˈpɔːtəbl] ADJtransportable
transportable
adjtransportabel, transportierbar


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It is singular that this prompt mode of conveying valuable, but easily transportable effects beyond the reach of a hostile ship should not have suggested itself while the property belonged to Mr.
Boythorn, "the treatment of surgeons aboard ship is such that I would submit the legs--both legs--of every member of the Admiralty Board to a compound fracture and render it a transportable offence in any qualified practitioner to set them if the system were not wholly changed in eight and forty hours
" At nine o'clock, Polly packed his bag with clean clothes, nicely mended, such remnants of the festive tea as were transportable, and kissed him "good-night," with many injunctions to muffle up his throat going over the bridge, and be sure that his feet were dry and warm when he went to bed.
 
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