1. Move something or somebody around; usually over long distances
   "The company transports hazardous materials across state lines"
    
2. Move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body
   "You must transport your camping gear";
   - carry
    
3. Move goods commercially
   "The company transports fresh produce nationwide";
   - send, ship
    
4. Hold spellbound
   "The stunning sunset transported the tourists, leaving them speechless";
   - enchant, enrapture, enthrall [US], ravish [literary], enthral [Brit, Cdn], captivate, entrance

1. The act of moving something from one location to another
   "The transport of the artwork to the new museum was done with great care";
   - transportation, transfer, transferral, conveyance
    
2. Something that serves as a means of transportation
   "The old horse-drawn carriage was a quaint transport for tourists";
   - conveyance
    
3. The commercial enterprise of moving goods and materials
   "The company specialized in the transport of perishable goods";
   - transportation, shipping
    
4. An exchange of molecules (and their kinetic energy and momentum) across the boundary between adjacent layers of a fluid or across cell membranes
   "Active transport allows cells to move substances against concentration gradients"
    
5. A state of being carried away by overwhelming emotion
   "listening to sweet music in a perfect transport";
   - ecstasy, rapture, exaltation, raptus
    
6. A mechanism that transports magnetic tape across the read/write heads of a tape playback/recorder
   "The computer's tape transport whirred as it backed up large amounts of data";
   - tape drive, tape transport

Derived forms: transports, transported, transporting

See also: send off, send on

Type of: business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise, delight, diffusion, displace, emotional state, instrumentality, instrumentation, means, mechanism, move, movement, please, spirit

Part of: commerce, commercialism, mercantilism, tape deck, tape machine, tape recorder

Encyclopedia: Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council