transport

Meaning

Verb

1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.
2. To deport to a penal colony.
3. To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.

Noun

1. An act of transporting; conveyance.
2. The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.
3. A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.)
4. A tractor-trailer.
5. The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.
6. A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.
7. A deported convict.

Hyphenated as

trans‧port

Pronounced as (IPA)

/tɹænsˈpɔːt/

Etymology

From Middle English transporten, a borrowing from Old French transporter (“carry or convey across”), from Latin trānsportō, from trans (“across”) + porto (“to carry”).

Sentences

The station is owned and maintained by Transport for London .