transport

1. 1.

   move something or somebody around; usually over long distances

   Broadermove

   Narrowersluicefloatferrywheelbarrowraftbuspipefreighttruckrail
2. 2.

   move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body

   “You must carry your camping gear”

   “carry the suitcases to the car”

   “This train is carrying nuclear waste”

   “These pipes carry waste water into the river”

   Synonymscarry

   Broadermove

   Narrowershoulderportbearbucketreturnpipe in
3. 3.

   hold spellbound

   Synonymsenchantenraptureenthrallravishenthraldelight

   Broaderplease
4. 4.

   transport commercially

   Synonymssendship

   Broadermove

   Narrowerbargerailroaddispatchforward
5. 5.

   send from one person or place to another

   “transmit a message”

   Synonymstransmittransferchannelchannelizechannelise

   Broadermove

   Narrowerbringprojectpropagatetranslate

Other forms of transport

plural

transports·

past tense

transported·

present participle

transporting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about transport

What does transport mean?

transport means "something that serves as a means of transportation". That is the primary sense; the word has 11 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in transport?

transport has 2 syllables: tran-sport. The stress falls on "sport". In IPA it is /tɹænˈspɔɹt/.

What is another word for transport?

Close synonyms include conveyance, transportation, shipping, ecstasy, rapture. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is transport a common word?

transport is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with transport?

2 words rhyme with transport. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.