transporter

1. 1.

   a long truck for carrying motor vehicles

   Synonymscar transporter

   Broadertruck
2. 2.

   a crane for moving material with dispatch as in loading and unloading ships

   Broadercrane
3. 3.

   a moving belt that transports objects (as in a factory)

   Synonymsconveyer beltconveyor beltconveyerconveyor

   Broaderbelt

   Narrowercarousel

   Part ofproduction line

   factory

Other forms of transporter

plural

transporters·

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 transporter

What does transporter mean?

transporter means "a long truck for carrying motor vehicles". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in transporter?

transporter has 3 syllables: tran-spor-ter. The stress falls on "spor". In IPA it is /tɹænˈspɔɹtɚ/.

What is another word for transporter?

Close synonyms include car transporter, conveyer belt, conveyor belt, conveyer, conveyor. 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 transporter a common word?

transporter is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 transporter?

1 word rhymes with transporter. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.