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Transporting

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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.


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For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
These shoes possess the property of instantly transporting him who has them on to the place or the period in which he most wishes to be; every wish, as regards time or place, or state of being, will be immediately fulfilled, and so at last man will be happy, here below.
It would, indeed, be the means of much perjury, and of much whipping, fining, imprisoning, transporting, and hanging.
 
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