Transport Meaning
/tɹænsˈpɔːt/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbTo carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.
verbTo deport to a penal colony.
Sentence Examples
After all, their form of transport produces no pollution at all.
Our city's transport problems are minor when measured against capitals like London and New York.
The transport service cannot cope with the strain of so many additional passengers.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The trucks will ____ the goods from the warehouse to the port.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The local council is trying to encourage more people to use public ____ instead of driving their own cars today.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English transporten, a borrowing from Old French transporter (“carry or convey across”), from Latin trānsportō, from trans (“across”) + porto (“to carry”). By surface analysis, trans- (“beyond, across, through”) + port (“to carry, bear, or convey; to bring”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"But the village's growth was curbed by the cliffs that restricted onward exploration for visitors, while goods such as coal and lime, which had arrived by water, were being transported up the severe incline to the town of Lynton by horse and cart."
— 2021 January 13, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Spectacular funiculars”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 53:
"Thes. Pray you kneele not,
I was transported with your Speech, and suffer'd
Your knees to wrong themselves; I have heard the fortunes
Of your dead Lords, which gives me such lamenting
As wakes my vengeance, and revenge for 'em."
— 1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson; […], published 1634, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 1:
"[They] laugh as if transported with some fit / Of passion."
— 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
"We shall then be transported with a nobler […] wonder."
— 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The trucks will ____ the goods from the warehouse to the port.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The local council is trying to encourage more people to use public ____ instead of driving their own cars today.