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transport

See also: Transport

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Etymology edit

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

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transport (third-person singular simple present transports, present participle transporting, simple past and past participle transported)

  1. To carry or bear from one place to another; to remove; to convey.
    to transport goods; to transport troops
    • 2021 January 13, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Spectacular funiculars”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 53:
      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.
  2. (historical) To deport to a penal colony.
  3. (figuratively) To move (someone) to strong emotion; to carry away.
    Music transports the soul.
    • 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:
      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.
    • 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
      [They] laugh as if transported with some fit / Of passion.
    • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, →OCLC:
      We shall then be transported with a nobler […] wonder.

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Conjugation of transport
infinitive (to) transport
present tense past tense
1st-person singular transport transported
2nd-person singular transport, transportest† transported, transportedst†
3rd-person singular transports, transporteth† transported
plural transport
subjunctive transport transported
imperative transport —
participles transporting transported

†Archaic or obsolete.

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transport (countable and uncountable, plural transports)

  1. An act of transporting; conveyance.
    The transport of goods is not included in the price given on the website.
  2. The state of being transported by emotion; rapture.
    • 1919, Elisabeth P. Stork (translator), Heidi, Johanna Spyri, page 53:
      In her transport at finding such treasures, Heidi even forgot Peter and his goats.
  3. A vehicle used to transport (passengers, mail, freight, troops etc.)
  4. (Canada) A tractor-trailer.
  5. The system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region; the vehicles used in such a system.
    The local transport received a big boost as part of the mayor's infrastructural plans.
  6. A device that moves recording tape across the read/write heads of a tape recorder or video recorder etc.
  7. (historical) A deported convict.

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public transport — see public transport
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Catalan edit

Etymology edit

From transportar (“to transport”).

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transport m (plural transports)

  1. transport

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Dutch edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Dutch transport, from Middle French transport, from Old French transport, from transporter (“carry or convey across”), from Latin transporto, from trans (“across”) + porto (“to carry”).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /trɑnˈspɔrt/, /trɑnsˈpɔrt/
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  • Hyphenation: trans‧port
  • Rhymes: -ɔrt

Noun edit

transport n (plural transporten, diminutive transportje n)

  1. transport

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  • Afrikaans: transport
  • → Guyanese Creole English: transport
  • → Indonesian: transpor

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Etymology edit

Internationalism ultimately from Latin trānsportō.

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  • Hyphenation: trans‧port
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transport (genitive transpordi, partitive transporti)

  1. transport
    Synonym: veondus

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Declension of transport (ÕS type 22e/riik, t-d gradation)
singular plural
nominative transport transpordid
accusative nom.
gen. transpordi
genitive transportide
partitive transporti transporte
transportisid
illative transporti
transpordisse 		transportidesse
transpordesse
inessive transpordis transportides
transpordes
elative transpordist transportidest
transpordest
allative transpordile transportidele
transpordele
adessive transpordil transportidel
transpordel
ablative transpordilt transportidelt
transpordelt
translative transpordiks transportideks
transpordeks
terminative transpordini transportideni
essive transpordina transportidena
abessive transpordita transportideta
comitative transpordiga transportidega

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Further reading edit

  • “transport”, in [PSV] Eesti keele põhisõnavara sõnastik [Dictionary of Estonian Basic Vocabulary] (in Estonian) (online version, not updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2014
  • “transport”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
  • “transport”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
  • transport in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

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transport m (plural transports)

  1. transport

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Norwegian Bokmål edit

 
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Etymology edit

From Medieval Latin transportus, from Latin transportare.

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transport m (definite singular transporten, indefinite plural transporter, definite plural transportene)

  1. transport, transportation

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Norwegian Nynorsk edit

 
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From Medieval Latin transportus, from Latin transportare.

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transport m (definite singular transporten, indefinite plural transportar, definite plural transportane)

  1. transport, transportation

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Polish edit

 
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Etymology edit

Internationalism; compare English transport, French transport, German Transport, ultimately from Latin trānsportō.

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transport m inan

  1. transport (act of transporting)
    Synonym: przewóz
  2. transport (vehicle used to transport passengers, mail or freight)
  3. transport (system of transporting passengers, etc. in a particular region)
  4. load, cargo
    Synonyms: fracht, ładunek

Declension edit

Declension of transport
singular plural
nominative transport transporty
genitive transportu transportów
dative transportowi transportom
accusative transport transporty
instrumental transportem transportami
locative transporcie transportach
vocative transporcie transporty

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adjective
nouns
verbs

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adjective
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Further reading edit

  • transport in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • transport in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French transport.

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Noun edit

transport n (plural transporturi)

  1. transport

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Declension of transport
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) transport transportul (niște) transporturi transporturile
genitive/dative (unui) transport transportului (unor) transporturi transporturilor
vocative transportule transporturilor

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trànsport m (Cyrillic spelling тра̀нспорт)

  1. transport, conveyance
  2. transport (vehicle)

Declension edit

Declension of transport
singular plural
nominative transport transporti
genitive transporta transporta
dative transportu transportima
accusative transport transporte
vocative transporte transporti
locative transportu transportima
instrumental transportom transportima

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transport c

  1. a transport, something to be moved
  2. a transport, a preliminary sum to be carried to the next page
  3. a transport, promotion to a new job or task

Declension edit

Declension of transport 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative transport transporten transporter transporterna
Genitive transports transportens transporters transporternas

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Turkish edit

Etymology edit

From Ottoman Turkish ترانسپورط (transport), from French transport.

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Noun edit

transport (definite accusative transportu, plural transportlar)

  1. transport

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Inflection
Nominative transport
Definite accusative transportu
Singular Plural
Nominative transport transportlar
Definite accusative transportu transportları
Dative transporta transportlara
Locative transportta transportlarda
Ablative transporttan transportlardan
Genitive transportun transportların
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